Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.18.146, 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 146 of Madhya-khanda chapter 18—“Mahaprabhu’s Dancing as a Gopi”.
Verse 2.18.146
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.18.146:
অনন্ত-ব্রহ্মাণ্ডে যত নিজ-শক্তি আছে সকল প্রকাশে প্রভু রুক্মিণীর কাচে ॥ ১৪৬ ॥
अनन्त-ब्रह्माण्डे यत निज-शक्ति आछे सकल प्रकाशे प्रभु रुक्मिणीर काचे ॥ १४६ ॥
ananta-brahmāṇḍe yata nija-śakti āche sakala prakāśe prabhu rukmiṇīra kāce || 146 ||
ananta-brahmande yata nija-sakti ache sakala prakase prabhu rukminira kace (146)
English translation:
(146) As the Lord danced in the dress of Rukmiṇī, He manifested the role of all His various consorts from innumerable universes.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Since Rukmiṇī is the fountainhead of all energies, she is the origin of all manifested consorts. All the direct expansions and expansions of the expansions of that fountainhead manifest within the fourteen worlds in female forms to enact the pastimes of serving Kṛṣṇa’s various manifestations (His personal expansions and separated expansions).