Chaitanya Bhagavata

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

The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.3.80, 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 80 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 2.3.80:

গন্তু-কাম সন্ন্যাসী হৈলাঊষা-কালে নিত্যানন্দ-পিতা-প্রতি ন্যাসি-বর বলে ॥ ৮০ ॥

गन्तु-काम सन्न्यासी हैलाऊषा-काले नित्यानन्द-पिता-प्रति न्यासि-वर बले ॥ ८० ॥

gantu-kāma sannyāsī hailāūṣā-kāle nityānanda-pitā-prati nyāsi-vara bale || 80 ||

gantu-kama sannyasi hailausa-kale nityananda-pita-prati nyasi-vara bale (80)

English translation:

(80) In the early morning, when the sannyāsī was about to leave, he spoke to Nityānanda’s father as follows.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Sannyāsīs do not become bound by the affection of householders by spending much time in their homes. That is why the following morning the sannyāsī was preparing to leave the house of Hāḍāi Paṇḍita and go somewhere else, when he began to speak.

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