Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.1.149, 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 149 of Madhya-khanda chapter 1—“The Beginning of the Lord’s Manifestation and His Instructions on Krishna-sankirtana”.
Verse 2.1.149
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.1.149:
হর্তা কর্তা পালযিতা কৃষ্ণ সে ঈশ্বর অজ-ভব-আদি, সব—কৃষ্ণের কিঙ্কর ॥ ১৪৯ ॥
हर्ता कर्ता पालयिता कृष्ण से ईश्वर अज-भव-आदि, सब—कृष्णेर किङ्कर ॥ १४९ ॥
hartā kartā pālayitā kṛṣṇa se īśvara aja-bhava-ādi, saba—kṛṣṇera kiṅkara || 149 ||
harta karta palayita krsna se isvara aja-bhava-adi, saba—krsnera kinkara (149)
English translation:
(149) “Kṛṣṇa is the supreme controller, the creator, the maintainer, and the annihilator. Everyone beginning from Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva is His servant.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the cause of all causes. He is the original creator, maintainer, and annihilator of all universes.
Wherever Lord Brahmā and Lord Rudra are described as the creator and the annihilator it is to be understood that they are empowered secondary agents under the instructions of Kṛṣṇa, and therefore they are established as predominating deities of the modes of passion and ignorance.