Chaitanya Bhagavata

by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words

The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.197, 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 197 of Madhya-khanda chapter 2—“The Lord’s Manifestation at the House of Shrivasa and the Inauguration of Sankirtana”.

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.197:

গৃহে আইলে ও নাহি ব্যাভার-প্রস্তাব নিরন্তর আনন্দ-আবেশ-আবির্ভাব ॥ ১৯৭ ॥

गृहे आइले ओ नाहि व्याभार-प्रस्ताव निरन्तर आनन्द-आवेश-आविर्भाव ॥ १९७ ॥

gṛhe āile o nāhi vyābhāra-prastāva nirantara ānanda-āveśa-āvirbhāva || 197 ||

grhe aile o nahi vyabhara-prastava nirantara ananda-avesa-avirbhava (197)

English translation:

(197) Although He returned home, He did not enjoy household pleasures. Rather, He constantly enjoyed transcendental bliss.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

The phrase vyābhāra-prastāva refers to the worldly dealings of

gṛhamedhīs and gṛhasthas.

Although Śrīman Mahāprabhu, who is the personification of vipralambha and who is intoxicated with feelings of separation from Kṛṣṇa, returned to His house, He did not welcome in the course of His family affairs any type of activities that were not related to Kṛṣṇa or that were full of material enjoyment. It appeared that love due to separation from Kṛṣṇa personally manifested and constantly remained in the house of Gaurāṅga. The conjugal pastimes not based on scriptures but opposed to their conclusions that are concocted or composed in the fertile brains of illicit, attached householders, or newly arisen gaura-nāgarīs, between Śrī Gaurasundara and Mahā-LakṣmīŚrīmatī Viṣṇupriyā, who is the personification of loving devotion, who is predominantly in aiśvarya- rasa, and who is the married consort of the Lord, are clearly and

vehemently refuted in this verse by Ṭhākura Śrīmad Vṛndāvana dāsa, who is the incarnation of Śrī Vyāsa.

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