Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.8.232, 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 232 of Madhya-khanda chapter 8—“The Manifestation of Opulences”.
Verse 2.8.232
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.8.232:
যতেক বৈষ্ণব-সব কীর্তন-আবেশে না জানে আপন দেহ, অন্য জন কিসে ॥ ২৩২ ॥
यतेक वैष्णव-सब कीर्तन-आवेशे ना जाने आपन देह, अन्य जन किसे ॥ २३२ ॥
yateka vaiṣṇava-saba kīrtana-āveśe nā jāne āpana deha, anya jana kise || 232 ||
yateka vaisnava-saba kirtana-avese na jane apana deha, anya jana kise (232)
English translation:
(232) All the Vaiṣṇavas were so absorbed in the ecstasy of kīrtana that they were not aware of their own bodies, so what did they know of others?
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Another reading of kīrtana-āveśe (“in the ecstasy of kīrtana”) is
kīrtanera rase, or “in the mellows of kīrtana.”