Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.1.337, 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 337 of Madhya-khanda chapter 1—“The Beginning of the Lord’s Manifestation and His Instructions on Krishna-sankirtana”.
Verse 2.1.337
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.1.337:
যাঙ্হার চরণে দুর্বা-জল দিলে মাত্র কভু নহে যমের সে অধিকার-পাত্র ॥ ৩৩৭ ॥
याङ्हार चरणे दुर्वा-जल दिले मात्र कभु नहे यमेर से अधिकार-पात्र ॥ ३३७ ॥
yāṅhāra caraṇe durvā-jala dile mātra kabhu nahe yamera se adhikāra-pātra || 337 ||
yanhara carane durva-jala dile matra kabhu nahe yamera se adhikara-patra (337)
English translation:
(337) “Anyone who offers a little water or durvā grass at the lotus feet of the Lord is never subjected to the punishment of Yamarāja.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
In the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (6.1.19) Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī explains to Mahārāja Parīkṣit as follows:
sakṛn manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayor niveśitaṃ tad-guṇa-rāgi yair iha
na te yamaṃ pāśa-bhṛtaś ca tad-bhaṭān svapne ‘pi paśyanti hi cīrṇa-niṣkṛtāḥ
“Although not having fully realized Kṛṣṇa, persons who have even once surrendered completely unto His lotus feet and who have become attracted to His name, form, qualities, and pastimes are completely freed of all sinful reactions, for they have thus accepted the true method of atonement. Even in dreams, such surrendered souls do not see Yamarāja or his order carriers, who are equipped with ropes to bind the sinful.”
In the Nṛsiṃha Purāṇa, Yamarāja speaks the following words:
aham amara-gaṇārcitena dhātrāyama iti loka-hitāhite niyuktaḥ
hari-guru-vimukhān praśāsmi martyān hari-caraṇa-praṇatān namas karomi
“I have been appointed by Lord Brahmā, who is worshiped by the demigods, to judge people’s pious and impious activities. I severely punish the materialistic fruitive actors, who are averse to the spiritual master and Lord Hari, and I offer my obeisances to the Vaiṣṇavas, who have surrendered themselves at the lotus feet of Lord Hari.” In the Skanda Purāṇa it is stated:
na brahmā na śivāgnīndrā nāhaṃ nānye divaukasaḥśaktās tu nigrahaṃ kartuṃ vaiṣṇavānāṃ mahātmanām
“Lord Brahmā, Lord Śiva, Agni, Indra, myself (Yamarāja), and other
demigods are unable to chastise the broad-minded Vaiṣṇavas.”