Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.12.60, 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 60 of Madhya-khanda chapter 12—“The Glories of Nityananda”.
Verse 2.12.60
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.12.60:
ভক্তি করি’ যে শুনযে এ সব আখ্যান তার স্বামী হয গৌরচন্দ্র ভগবান্ ॥ ৬০ ॥
भक्ति करि’ ये शुनये ए सब आख्यान तार स्वामी हय गौरचन्द्र भगवान् ॥ ६० ॥
bhakti kari’ ye śunaye e saba ākhyāna tāra svāmī haya gauracandra bhagavān || 60 ||
bhakti kari’ ye sunaye e saba akhyana tara svami haya gauracandra bhagavan (60)
English translation:
(60) Lord Gauracandra becomes the master of one who hears these topics with devotion.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Those who hear with faith the topics of Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu’s transcendental characteristics can never become averse to the service of Śrī Caitanya. Only those who are inclined towards the service of Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu are able to serve Śrī Gaurasundara in all respects. On seeing here the word svāmī, or “master,” the gaura-nāgarīs should not think that like the concocted nadīyā-nāgarīs they also can enlist Śrī Gaurasundara, who is nondifferent from Jagat-guru Śrī Nityānanda
Prabhu, as a debauchee and display the wild dancing of their material conceptions.