Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.14.124, 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 124 of Adi-khanda chapter 14—“The Lord’s Travel to East Bengal and the Disappearance of Lakshmipriya”.
Verse 1.14.124
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.14.124:
বেদ-গোপ্য এ-সকল না কহিবে কা’রে কহিলে পাইবে দুঃখ জন্ম-জন্মান্তরে” ॥ ১২৪ ॥
वेद-गोप्य ए-सकल ना कहिबे का’रे कहिले पाइबे दुःख जन्म-जन्मान्तरे” ॥ १२४ ॥
veda-gopya e-sakala nā kahibe kā’re kahile pāibe duḥkha janma-janmāntare” || 124 ||
veda-gopya e-sakala na kahibe ka’re kahile paibe duhkha janma-janmantare” (124)
English translation:
(124) “Don’t disclose these facts to anyone, for this information is confidential even to the Vedas. If you do, you’ll be unhappy birth after birth.”
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
The words veda-gopya indicate that the confidential purports of the Vedas never manifest to ordinary people, but these confidential purports manifest only in the heart of one who is an actual follower of the descending process, or one who follows an ācārya. Whatever topics are understood by sense enjoyers and renunciates with the assistance of their poor fund of knowledge are simply the external meanings of the Vedas.
Such topics are not the aim of those genuine followers of the Vedas who are under the shelter of cultivating real knowledge.