Chaitanya Bhagavata

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

The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.3.40, 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 40 of Madhya-khanda chapter 3—“The Lord Manifests His Varaha Form in the House of Murari and Meets with Nityananda”.

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.3.40:

পুণ্য পবিত্রতা পায যে-অঙ্গ-পরশে তাহা’মিথ্যা বলে বেটা কেমন সাহসে? ॥ ৪০ ॥

पुण्य पवित्रता पाय ये-अङ्ग-परशे ताहा’मिथ्या बले बेटा केमन साहसे? ॥ ४० ॥

puṇya pavitratā pāya ye-aṅga-paraśe tāhā’mithyā bale beṭā kemana sāhase? || 40 ||

punya pavitrata paya ye-anga-parase taha’mithya bale beta kemana sahase? (40)

English translation:

(40) “By the touch of My body, purity is sanctified. So how can that wretch say that My body is false?

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

“The body of the Supreme Lord is eternal, therefore unpleasantness, insignificance, abomination, and division cannot be attributed to it. The touch of such supremely pure limbs of the Lord greatly purifies less purified objects. Therefore I cannot understand how he dares to establish such an eternal body as temporary.”

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