Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.1.141, 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 141 of Madhya-khanda chapter 1—“The Beginning of the Lord’s Manifestation and His Instructions on Krishna-sankirtana”.
Verse 2.1.141
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.1.141:
ভিন্ন লোক দেখিলে করেন সম্বরণ ঊষঃ-কালে গঙ্গা-স্নানে করযে গমন ॥ ১৪১ ॥
भिन्न लोक देखिले करेन सम्बरण ऊषः-काले गङ्गा-स्नाने करये गमन ॥ १४१ ॥
bhinna loka dekhile karena sambaraṇa ūṣaḥ-kāle gaṅgā-snāne karaye gamana || 141 ||
bhinna loka dekhile karena sambarana usah-kale ganga-snane karaye gamana (141)
English translation:
(141) As soon as the Lord saw a materialistic person, He would conceal His internal mood. Every morning He would go take bath in the Ganges.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Whenever the Lord saw ignorant, materialistic nondevotees who were devoid of the propensity for serving Kṛṣṇa, He would consider them mundane and therefore control and conceal His transformations of ecstatic love arising from intense feelings of separation from Kṛṣṇa.