Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.20.149, 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 149 of Madhya-khanda chapter 20—“The Glories of Murari Gupta”.
Verse 2.20.149
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.20.149:
চারি-বেদ পডিযা ও যদি নিন্দা করে জন্ম জন্ম কুম্ভীপাকে ডুবিযা সে মরে ॥ ১৪৯ ॥
चारि-वेद पडिया ओ यदि निन्दा करे जन्म जन्म कुम्भीपाके डुबिया से मरे ॥ १४९ ॥
cāri-veda paḍiyā o yadi nindā kare janma janma kumbhīpāke ḍubiyā se mare || 149 ||
cari-veda padiya o yadi ninda kare janma janma kumbhipake dubiya se mare (149)
English translation:
(149) If even after studying the four Vedas one indulges in blasphemy, he suffers birth after birth in the hell known as Kumbhīpāka.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Even if because of their offenses sinful people identify themselves as Caturvedis and Agnihotris, as a result of blaspheming Viṣṇu and the Vaiṣṇavas they fall after every lifetime into Kumbhīpāka, where they suffer severe miseries. Their study of the four Vedas then becomes the cause of hellish pain, and envy of the Vaiṣṇavas becomes their principal recitation of the Sāma Veda.