Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.264, 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 264 of Madhya-khanda chapter 2—“The Lord’s Manifestation at the House of Shrivasa and the Inauguration of Sankirtana”.
Verse 2.264
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.264:
তোর উচ্চ সঙ্কীর্তন, নাডার হুঙ্কারে ছাডিযা বৈকুণ্ঠ, আইনু সর্ব পরিবারে ॥ ২৬৪ ॥
तोर उच्च सङ्कीर्तन, नाडार हुङ्कारे छाडिया वैकुण्ठ, आइनु सर्व परिवारे ॥ २६४ ॥
tora ucca saṅkīrtana, nāḍāra huṅkāre chāḍiyā vaikuṇṭha, āinu sarva parivāre || 264 ||
tora ucca sankirtana, nadara hunkare chadiya vaikuntha, ainu sarva parivare (264)
English translation:
(264) “By your loud chanting and Nāḍās roaring I left Vaikuṇṭha and came here with My associates.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Śrīmad Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, the editor of Śrī Sajjana-toṣaṇī, has written in Volume 7, Part 11, as follows: “Śrīman Mahāprabhu often addressed Śrīla Advaita Prabhu as Nāḍā. I have heard a number of meanings of the word nāḍā. Some Vaiṣṇava scholar has said that the word nārā refers to Mahā-Viṣṇu because nāra, the total aggregate of all living entities, is situated within Him. Is the word nāḍāa corruption of the word nārā? The people of Rāḍha-deśa often use ḍa in place of ra. Is this the reason that the word nārā has been written as nāḍā? This meaning is often applicable.”
The word nāra or nārā (nāḍā) is explained by Śrīdhara Svāmipāda in his Bhāvārtha-dīpikācommentary on Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (10.14.14) as follows: “The word nāra refers to the aggregate of living entities, and the word ayaṇa refers to the shelter. You are Nārāyaṇa Himself because You are the supreme shelter of all embodied souls. You are Nārāyaṇa because all the propensities (ayaṇa) of the living entities (nāra) emanate from You. You are the supreme Nārāyaṇa because You know (ayaṇa) all living entities (nāra). You are renowned as Nārāyaṇa because You are the supreme shelter (ayaṇa) of the water that emanates from Nara. In the smṛtis it is stated: ‘All the truths born from Nara are known as nārān by the learned scholars. Since the Supreme Lord is the shelter of this nārān, learned scholars glorify Him as Nārāyaṇa.’”
In the Manu-saṃhitā (1.10) it is stated: “The waters are called nāra, for they emanate from the Supersoul, Nara. As they are His original resting place (ayaṇa), He is named Nārāyaṇa.”