Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.9.235, 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 235 of Madhya-khanda chapter 9—“The Lord’s Twenty-One Hour Ecstasy and Descriptions of Shridhara and Other Devotees’ Characteristics”.
Verse 2.9.235
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.9.235:
কলা মূলা বেচিযাশ্রীধর পাইলা যাহাকোটি-কল্পে কোটীশ্বর না দেখিবা তাহা ॥ ২৩৫ ॥
कला मूला वेचियाश्रीधर पाइला याहाकोटि-कल्पे कोटीश्वर ना देखिबा ताहा ॥ २३५ ॥
kalā mūlā veciyāśrīdhara pāilā yāhākoṭi-kalpe koṭīśvara nā dekhibā tāhā || 235 ||
kala mula veciyasridhara paila yahakoti-kalpe kotisvara na dekhiba taha (235)
English translation:
(235) In millions of kalpas Lord Brahmā will never see that which Śrīdhara received simply by selling bananas and banana stems.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
A mahā-yuga consists of 4,320,000 solar years. One thousand of such mahā-yugas comprise one kalpa. Śrīdhara, who was born in a poor brāhmaṇa family and who merely traded in bananas and banana stems, received that which Lord Brahmā, who is the controller of millions of opulences, cannot get in millions of such kalpas.