Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.1.169, 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 169 of Madhya-khanda chapter 1—“The Beginning of the Lord’s Manifestation and His Instructions on Krishna-sankirtana”.
Verse 2.1.169
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.1.169:
পরং-ব্রহ্ম বিশ্বম্ভর শব্দ-মূর্তি-ময যে-শব্দে যে বাখানেন সে-ই সত্য হয ॥ ১৬৯ ॥
परं-ब्रह्म विश्वम्भर शब्द-मूर्ति-मय ये-शब्दे ये वाखानेन से-इ सत्य हय ॥ १६९ ॥
paraṃ-brahma viśvambhara śabda-mūrti-maya ye-śabde ye vākhānena se-i satya haya || 169 ||
param-brahma visvambhara sabda-murti-maya ye-sabde ye vakhanena se-i satya haya (169)
English translation:
(169) Viśvambhara is the Supreme Brahman and the personification of transcendental sound, therefore whatever He explains is the supreme truth.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Śrī Viśvambhara, the Lord of the spiritual world and the maintainer and nourisher of the animate and inanimate worlds, is directly the Supreme
Brahman and personification of transcendental sound. Therefore He is the husband of Sarasvatī, the goddess of transcendental knowledge. Any word that Lord Viśvambhara explains through the eternal, pure, complete, eternally liberated, spiritual, and most important vidvad-rūḍhi as related to Kṛṣṇa is reality and the Supreme Truth.