Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 1.16.305, 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 305 of Adi-khanda chapter 16—“The Glories of Shri Haridasa Thakura”.
Verse 1.16.305
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.16.305:
ব্রাহ্মণ হৈযা যদি অবৈষ্ণব হয তবে তা’র আলাপেহ পুণ্য যায ক্ষয ॥ ৩০৫ ॥
ब्राह्मण हैया यदि अवैष्णव हय तबे ता’र आलापेह पुण्य याय क्षय ॥ ३०५ ॥
brāhmaṇa haiyā yadi avaiṣṇava haya tabe tā’ra ālāpeha puṇya yāya kṣaya || 305 ||
brahmana haiya yadi avaisnava haya tabe ta’ra alapeha punya yaya ksaya (305)
English translation:
(305) One who converses with a nondevotee brāhmaṇa loses his piety.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
If one converses with a person who was born in a seminal brāhmaṇa family, who has undergone sāvitra-saṃskāra yet has not taken Vaiṣṇava initiation, who envies the Vaiṣṇavas and considers himself a non- Vaiṣṇava, then one’s heaps of accumulated piety are destroyed.