Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.23.3, 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 3 of Madhya-khanda chapter 23—“Wandering about Navadvipa On the Day the Lord Delivered the Kazi”.
Verse 2.23.3
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.23.3:
হেন-মতে নবদ্বীপে প্রভু বিশ্বম্ভর ক্রীডা করে, নহে সর্ব-নযন-গোচর ॥ ৩ ॥
हेन-मते नवद्वीपे प्रभु विश्वम्भर क्रीडा करे, नहे सर्व-नयन-गोचर ॥ ३ ॥
hena-mate navadvīpe prabhu viśvambhara krīḍā kare, nahe sarva-nayana-gocara || 3 ||
hena-mate navadvipe prabhu visvambhara krida kare, nahe sarva-nayana-gocara (3)
English translation:
(3) In this way Lord Viśvambhara enjoyed pastimes in Navadvīpa that could not be seen by everyone.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
No one is eligible to see all of Lord Viśvambhara’s pastimes. One is only able to see the pastimes that he is qualified to see. In the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (10.43.17) it is stated:
mallānām aśanir nṛṇāṃ nara-varaḥ strīṇāṃ smaro mūrtimān gopānāṃ sva-jano ‘satāṃ kṣiti-bhujāṃ śāstā sva-pitroḥ śiśuḥ mṛtyur bhoja-pater virāḍ aviduṣāṃ tattvaṃ paraṃ yogināṃ vṛṣṇīnāṃ para-devateti vidito raṅgaṃ gataḥ sāgrajaḥ
“The various groups of people in the arena regarded Kṛṣṇa in different ways when He entered it with His elder brother. The wrestlers saw Kṛṣṇa as a lightning bolt, the men of Mathurā as the best of males, the women as Cupid in person, the cowherd men as their relative, the impious rulers as a chastiser, His parents as their child, the King of the Bhojas as death, the unintelligent as the Supreme Lord’s universal form, the yogis as the Absolute Truth and the Vṛṣṇis as their supreme worshipable Deity.”