Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.1.242, 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 242 of Madhya-khanda chapter 1—“The Beginning of the Lord’s Manifestation and His Instructions on Krishna-sankirtana”.
Verse 2.1.242
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.1.242:
কি ভোজনে, কি শযনে, কিবা জাগরণে কৃষ্ণ-বিনু প্রভু আর কিছু না বাখানে ॥ ২৪২ ॥
कि भोजने, कि शयने, किबा जागरणे कृष्ण-विनु प्रभु आर किछु ना वाखाने ॥ २४२ ॥
ki bhojane, ki śayane, kibā jāgaraṇe kṛṣṇa-vinu prabhu āra kichu nā vākhāne || 242 ||
ki bhojane, ki sayane, kiba jagarane krsna-vinu prabhu ara kichu na vakhane (242)
English translation:
(242) Whether eating, sleeping, or remaining awake, the Lord did not speak of anything other than Kṛṣṇa.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
While eating, sleeping, and remaining awake, the Lord never attempted to glorify anything other than topics related with Kṛṣṇa’s names, forms, qualities, and pastimes. Persons belonging to the gaura-nāgarī and other
apa-sampradāyas say that the householder Gaurāṅga instructed attached householders to simply perform gṛhamedha-yajñas, or sacrifices for the prosperity of one’s family life. But in this case, the author, Ṭhākura Śrī Vṛndāvana dāsa, does not describe any such, or similar, endeavors of the Lord, who is fully absorbed in the mood of a devotee.