Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.14.46, English translation, including a commentary (Gaudiya-bhasya). This text is similair to the Caitanya-caritamrita and narrates the pastimes of Lord Caitanya, proclaimed to be the direct incarnation of Krishna (as Bhagavan) This is verse 46 of Adi-khanda chapter 14—“The Lord’s Travel to East Bengal and the Disappearance of Lakshmipriya”.
Verse 1.14.46
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.14.46:
অদ্ভুত দেখেন শচী পুত্র-পদ-তলে মহা-জ্যোতির্-ময অগ্নি-পুঞ্জ-শিখা জ্বলে ॥ ৪৬ ॥
अद्भुत देखेन शची पुत्र-पद-तले महा-ज्योतिर्-मय अग्नि-पुञ्ज-शिखा ज्वले ॥ ४६ ॥
adbhuta dekhena śacī putra-pada-tale mahā-jyotir-maya agni-puñja-śikhā jvale || 46 ||
adbhuta dekhena saci putra-pada-tale maha-jyotir-maya agni-punja-sikha jvale (46)
English translation:
(46) Mother Śacī sometimes saw brilliant effulgent flames emanating from the feet of her son.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Due to the influence of Gaura-Nārāyaṇa’s opulences, Śacīdevī saw five effulgent flames of fire. Just as impersonalists, being unable to see the original form of the Lord, accept the effulgence emanating from the body of the Lord as His form and thus become astonished; seeing the most effulgent five flames of fire emanating from the lotus feet of the Lord, Śacīdevī understood her son to be directly Lord Viṣṇu.