Chaitanya Bhagavata

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

The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.3.172, 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 172 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 2.3.172:

না বুঝি’ যে নিন্দে’ তান চরিত্র অগাধ পাইযা ও বিষ্ণু-ভক্তি হয তার বাধ ॥ ১৭২ ॥

ना बुझि’ ये निन्दे’ तान चरित्र अगाध पाइया ओ विष्णु-भक्ति हय तार वाध ॥ १७२ ॥

nā bujhi’ ye ninde’ tāna caritra agādha pāiyā o viṣṇu-bhakti haya tāra vādha || 172 ||

na bujhi’ ye ninde’ tana caritra agadha paiya o visnu-bhakti haya tara vadha (172)

English translation:

(172) The progress of anyone who blasphemes Him without understanding the depth of His characteristics is obstructed, even if he achieves devotional service to Viṣṇu.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Those who find restlessness in Nityānanda’s characteristics, which are adorned with gravity as deep as the ocean, and are thus cheated from attaining shelter at His lotus feet and blaspheme Him by not understanding His supreme service to Gaura-Kṛṣṇa, even though they are constitutionally eternal servants of Kṛṣṇa, they fall from their position as servants of Kṛṣṇa and ruin themselves by lording it over material nature.

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