Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.18.196, 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 196 of Madhya-khanda chapter 18—“Mahaprabhu’s Dancing as a Gopi”.
Verse 2.18.196
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.18.196:
যত নারাযণী-শক্তি-জগত-জননী সেই সব হৈযাছে বৈষ্ণব-গৃহিণী ॥ ১৯৬ ॥
यत नारायणी-शक्ति-जगत-जननी सेइ सब हैयाछे वैष्णव-गृहिणी ॥ १९६ ॥
yata nārāyaṇī-śakti-jagata-jananī sei saba haiyāche vaiṣṇava-gṛhiṇī || 196 ||
yata narayani-sakti-jagata-janani sei saba haiyache vaisnava-grhini (196)
English translation:
(196) All the energies of Nārāyaṇī, the mother of the universe, have appeared as the wives of the Vaiṣṇavas.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
The women of this world are bodily expansions of Nārāyaṇī’s energies. Unlike the nondevotees, the Vaiṣṇavas are not influenced by the spirit of enjoyment to consider the energies of Nārāyaṇī, the mother of the universe, as “the Supreme.”