Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.3.37, 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 37 of Madhya-khanda chapter 3—“The Lord Manifests His Varaha Form in the House of Murari and Meets with Nityananda”.
Verse 2.3.37
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.3.37:
কাশীতে পডায বেটা প্রকাশ-আনন্দ সেই বেটা করে মোর অঙ্গ খণ্ড খণ্ড ॥ ৩৭ ॥
काशीते पडाय बेटा प्रकाश-आनन्द सेइ बेटा करे मोर अङ्ग खण्ड खण्ड ॥ ३७ ॥
kāśīte paḍāya beṭā prakāśa-ānanda sei beṭā kare mora aṅga khaṇḍa khaṇḍa || 37 ||
kasite padaya beta prakasa-ananda sei beta kare mora anga khanda khanda (37)
English translation:
(37) “There is one wretch in Kāśī named Prakāśānanda, who cuts My body to pieces while teaching the Vedas.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
“An impersonalist sannyāsī professor named Prakāśānanda cuts My eternal transcendental limbs to pieces in his explanation of the Vedas.” Some people mistakenly consider that Prakāśānanda was none other than Prabodhānanda, the younger brother of Veṅkaṭa Bhaṭṭa, who lived on the bank of the Kāverī. Since such mistakes are found in the sahajiyā book named Bhakta-māla, the same mistake is also often found among modern writers.