Verse 2.3.127

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.3.127:

নিজানন্দে ক্ষণে ক্ষণে করযে হুঙ্কার মহা-মত্ত যেন বলরাম-অবতার ॥ ১২৭ ॥

निजानन्दे क्षणे क्षणे करये हुङ्कार महा-मत्त येन बलराम-अवतार ॥ १२७ ॥

nijānande kṣaṇe kṣaṇe karaye huṅkāra mahā-matta yena balarāma-avatāra || 127 ||

nijanande ksane ksane karaye hunkara maha-matta yena balarama-avatara (127)

English translation:

(127) Sometimes He roared loudly in His own ecstasy. He appeared greatly intoxicated, just like the incarnation of Balarāma.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu sometimes roared loudly out of ecstasy in order to manifest His pastimes and identity in this world. He was fully intoxicated to constantly assist Śrī Caitanyadeva’s pastimes of distributing love of God. Just as Śrī Baladeva Prabhu fully engaged in the service of Śrī Kṛṣṇa in Vraja, in Gauḍa-deśa also, where Caitanya enjoyed His pastimes, the intoxicated mood and emotional ecstasy of Nityānanda captured people’s hearts through the help of their ears to vanquish the contamination from their hearts. No one should misunderstand the meaning of the word nijānanda by thinking that Śrī Nityānanda is an insignificant conditioned soul like us. The word nija here indicates realization of the Supreme Lord. According to material consideration, the ānanda of the conditioned souls is always obstructed and there is gulf of difference between real ānanda and their ānanda. Since Nityānanda Prabhu is Himself the origin of the viṣṇu-tattvas, if one attributes on Him the material consideration of differentiation between the body and the self, then one will certainly be baffled in his attempts to realize the true meaning of the word nijānanda.

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