Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 2.23.328, 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 328 of Madhya-khanda chapter 23—“Wandering about Navadvipa On the Day the Lord Delivered the Kazi”.
Verse 2.23.328
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.23.328:
ঝাট কহ গিযা যথা আছে চিত্রগুপ্ত পাপীর লিখন সব ঝাট কর’ লুপ্ত ॥ ৩২৮ ॥
झाट कह गिया यथा आछे चित्रगुप्त पापीर लिखन सब झाट कर’ लुप्त ॥ ३२८ ॥
jhāṭa kaha giyā yathā āche citragupta pāpīra likhana saba jhāṭa kara’ lupta || 328 ||
jhata kaha giya yatha ache citragupta papira likhana saba jhata kara’ lupta (328)
English translation:
(328) “Go quickly and inform Citragupta that he should immediately destroy the records of the sinners.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
There are fourteen Yamas. Citragupta is one of them. He is entrusted with the duty of recording the sinful and pious activities of the human beings.
Someone intoxicated by chanting the Lord’s names is saying that whatever Citragupta Yama has recorded about the sinful human beings should now, by the influence of chanting the holy names, be wiped clean.