Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.142, 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 142 of Madhya-khanda chapter 2—“The Lord’s Manifestation at the House of Shrivasa and the Inauguration of Sankirtana”.
Verse 2.142
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.142:
চিত্তে বড বিস্মিত হৈলা গদাধর “হেন বুঝি অবতীর্ণ হৈলাঈশ্বর” ॥ ১৪২ ॥
चित्ते बड विस्मित हैला गदाधर “हेन बुझि अवतीर्ण हैलाईश्वर” ॥ १४२ ॥
citte baḍa vismita hailā gadādhara “hena bujhi avatīrṇa hailāīśvara” || 142 ||
citte bada vismita haila gadadhara “hena bujhi avatirna hailaisvara” (142)
English translation:
(142) Gadādhara was struck with wonder and thought, “Perhaps the Supreme Lord has appeared.”
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Only those who are eternal associates of Gaura-Kṛṣṇa can, on seeing the Lord’s extraordinary ecstatic transformations of love, understand Śrī
Kṛṣṇa’s Gaura pastimes. But even after hearing and reciting these pastimes of Advaita Prabhu’s spiritual realization, the cheated and cheating prākṛta-sahajiyās who imitate Him exhibit varieties of licentiousness under the influence of the cheating propensity and thus traverse the path to hell without understanding the special characteristics of Lord Caitanya’s pastimes. The cheated also bring about their utter ruination by adorning their cheating benefactors as nava-gaurāṅgas, or “new incarnations of Gaurāṅga.”