Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.9.214, 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 214 of Madhya-khanda chapter 9—“The Lord’s Twenty-One Hour Ecstasy and Descriptions of Shridhara and Other Devotees’ Characteristics”.
Verse 2.9.214
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.9.214:
অনন্ত ব্রহ্মাণ্ড-কোটি বহে যারে মনে সে তুমি শ্রীদাম-গোপ বহিলা আপনে ॥ ২১৪ ॥
अनन्त ब्रह्माण्ड-कोटि वहे यारे मने से तुमि श्रीदाम-गोप वहिला आपने ॥ २१४ ॥
ananta brahmāṇḍa-koṭi vahe yāre mane se tumi śrīdāma-gopa vahilā āpane || 214 ||
ananta brahmanda-koti vahe yare mane se tumi sridama-gopa vahila apane (214)
English translation:
(214) “You who are carried in the minds of the inhabitants of innumerable universes personally carried the cowherd boy Śrīdāma.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Śrīdāma’s devotional service is explained as follows: Once Lord Kṛṣṇa called His cowherd boy friends and expressed His desire to play a new game. On one side was Balarāma and on the other side was Kṛṣṇa. In the course of the game, some boys were carriers and some were carried. In
that game the winners were to ride on the shoulders of the losers. Being defeated, Kṛṣṇa carried Śrīdāma, Bhadrasena carried Vṛṣabha, and Pralambāsura carried Baladeva. (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, Tenth Canto, Chapter Eighteen)