Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.16.50, 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 50 of Madhya-khanda chapter 16—“The Lord’s Acceptance of Shuklambara’s Rice”.
Verse 2.16.50
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.16.50:
অদ্বৈত-সিংহের এই একান্ত মহিমাএ রহস্য নাহি জানে যত দুষ্ট জনা ॥ ৫০ ॥
अद्वैत-सिंहेर एइ एकान्त महिमाए रहस्य नाहि जाने यत दुष्ट जना ॥ ५० ॥
advaita-siṃhera ei ekānta mahimāe rahasya nāhi jāne yata duṣṭa janā || 50 ||
advaita-simhera ei ekanta mahimae rahasya nahi jane yata dusta jana (50)
English translation:
(50) Such are the extraordinary glories of the lionlike Advaita. The miscreants, however, do not know this confidential truth.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Śrī Advaita Prabhu is the foremost of all Vaiṣṇavas. Without understanding His extraordinary glories, sinful persons who are intoxicated with pride from material enjoyment often attribute outrageous activities on Him. In some places, even today, some of His descendants and followers accept Śrī Advaita Prabhu as “Mahā-Viṣṇu” and Gaurasundara as His topmost subservient gopī. To establish those who are eternal servants of Śrī Caitanya as “Śrī Caitanya’s object of worship” is an indication of polluted intelligence. After accepting a polluted philosophy, some of the descendants and followers of Advaita desire to advertise Śrī Advaita Prabhu as a kevalādvaita-vadī, an impersonalist.