Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.5.144, 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 144 of Madhya-khanda chapter 5—“Lord Nityananda’s Vyasa-puja Ceremony and His Darshana of the Lord’s Six-armed Form”.
Verse 2.5.144
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.5.144:
এ সব লোকের কি কুশল কোন ক্ষণে হৈযাছে, হৈবেক? বুঝ ভাবি’ মনে ॥ ১৪৪ ॥
ए सब लोकेर कि कुशल कोन क्षणे हैयाछे, हैबेक? बुझ भावि’ मने ॥ १४४ ॥
e saba lokera ki kuśala kona kṣaṇe haiyāche, haibeka? bujha bhāvi’ mane || 144 ||
e saba lokera ki kusala kona ksane haiyache, haibeka? bujha bhavi’ mane (144)
English translation:
(144) Consider carefully, have such persons ever been benefited, or will they ever be benefited?
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Those who discriminate between Hari, Guru, and Vaiṣṇava and worship one while criticizing another will never attain any auspiciousness. This is simple to understand.