Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.3.78, 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 78 of Madhya-khanda chapter 3—“The Lord Manifests His Varaha Form in the House of Murari and Meets with Nityananda”.
Verse 2.3.78
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.3.78:
নিত্যানন্দ-পিতা তানে ভিক্ষা করাইরা রাখিলেন পরম-আনন্দ-যুক্ত হঞা ॥ ৭৮ ॥
नित्यानन्द-पिता ताने भिक्षा कराइरा राखिलेन परम-आनन्द-युक्त हञा ॥ ७८ ॥
nityānanda-pitā tāne bhikṣā karāirā rākhilena parama-ānanda-yukta hañā || 78 ||
nityananda-pita tane bhiksa karaira rakhilena parama-ananda-yukta hana (78)
English translation:
(78) Nityānanda’s father invited him for a meal and happily kept him in his house.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
With great happiness, Hāḍāi Paṇḍita invited an attractive wandering sannyāsī to his house and fed him. Since the pañca-sūnā sacrifices are not meant for the independent sannyāsīs, they eat at the houses of brāhmaṇas. It is the principal duty of householders to offer meals and other nonduplicitous service to the sannyāsīs, who are situated in the highest order of spiritual life.