Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.1.396, 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 396 of Madhya-khanda chapter 1—“The Beginning of the Lord’s Manifestation and His Instructions on Krishna-sankirtana”.
Verse 2.1.396
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.1.396:
সে-সব শিষ্যের পায মোর নমস্কার চৈতন্যের শিষ্যত্বে হৈল ভাগ্য যাঙ্র ॥ ৩৯৬ ॥
से-सब शिष्येर पाय मोर नमस्कार चैतन्येर शिष्यत्वे हैल भाग्य याङ्र ॥ ३९६ ॥
se-saba śiṣyera pāya mora namaskāra caitanyera śiṣyatve haila bhāgya yāṅra || 396 ||
se-saba sisyera paya mora namaskara caitanyera sisyatve haila bhagya yanra (396)
English translation:
(396) I offer my humble obeisances at the feet of those students, who were sufficiently fortunate to become Lord Caitanya’s students.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
The author offers his humble obeisances at the feet of those most fortunate students, who as a result of heaps of pious activities accumulated from many births achieved the rare, incomparable fortune of becoming Śrī Viśvambhara’s students.