Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.16.173, 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 173 of Adi-khanda chapter 16—“The Glories of Shri Haridasa Thakura”.
Verse 1.16.173
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.16.173:
তিন-লক্ষ নাম দিনে করেন গ্রহণ গোফা হৈল তাঙ্’র যেন বৈকুণ্ঠ-ভবন ॥ ১৭৩ ॥
तिन-लक्ष नाम दिने करेन ग्रहण गोफा हैल ताङ्’र येन वैकुण्ठ-भवन ॥ १७३ ॥
tina-lakṣa nāma dine karena grahaṇa gophā haila tāṅ’ra yena vaikuṇṭha-bhavana || 173 ||
tina-laksa nama dine karena grahana gopha haila tan’ra yena vaikuntha-bhavana (173)
English translation:
(173) He would chant the holy name of the Lord three hundred thousand times a day, and his cave was thus transformed into Vaikuṇṭha.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
The cave in which the pure-hearted, great preacher, Hari-Nāmācārya Ṭhākura Mahāśaya loudly chanted the transcendental sound of the holy names of Lord Hari transformed into a place of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes, or Vaikuṇṭha, according to the purport of the following statement of a mahājana: ye dina gṛhe bhajana dekhi, gṛhete goloka bhāya—“One day while performing devotional practices, I saw my house transformed into Goloka Vṛndāvana.”