Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.14.55, 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 55 of Adi-khanda chapter 14—“The Lord’s Travel to East Bengal and the Disappearance of Lakshmipriya”.
Verse 1.14.55
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.14.55:
যেবা ভাগ্যবতী হেন পাইলেন পতি স্ত্রী-জন্ম সার্থক করিলেন সেই সতী” ॥ ৫৫ ॥
येबा भाग्यवती हेन पाइलेन पति स्त्री-जन्म सार्थक करिलेन सेइ सती” ॥ ५५ ॥
yebā bhāgyavatī hena pāilena pati strī-janma sārthaka karilena sei satī” || 55 ||
yeba bhagyavati hena pailena pati stri-janma sarthaka karilena sei sati” (55)
English translation:
(55) “Fortunate is she who has such a husband. The life of that chaste lady has become successful.”
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
The married ladies of East Bengal realized the good fortune and
perfection of accepting a woman’s birth attained by Lakṣmīdevī, the wife of Gaura, and they engaged with her in the Lord’s service in the mood of awe and reverence. They did not forget their own constitutional position as eternally separated expansions and attempt to establish abominable mundane debauchery as worship of Gaura in order to become gaura- bhogīs, or enjoyers of Gaura, like the fictitious gaura-nāgarīs.