Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 3.1.20, 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 20 of Antya-khanda chapter 1—“Meeting Again at the House of Shri Advaita Acarya”.
Verse 3.1.20
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.1.20:
কেশব-ভারতী-পদে বহু নমস্কার অনন্ত-ব্রহ্মাণ্ড-নাথ শিষ্য-রূপে যাঙ্র ॥ ২০ ॥
केशव-भारती-पदे बहु नमस्कार अनन्त-ब्रह्माण्ड-नाथ शिष्य-रूपे याङ्र ॥ २० ॥
keśava-bhāratī-pade bahu namaskāra ananta-brahmāṇḍa-nātha śiṣya-rūpe yāṅra || 20 ||
kesava-bharati-pade bahu namaskara ananta-brahmanda-natha sisya-rupe yanra (20)
English translation:
(20) I repeatedly offer obeisances at the feet of Keśava Bhāratī, whose disciple is the Lord of innumerable universes.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Another reading for bahu (“many”) is rahu (“let me offer”).
In the Puruṣa-sūkta of the Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad (4.4) it is stated as follows:
oṃ etāvān asya mahimā ato jyāyaṃś ca puruṣaḥ pādo ‘sya viśvā bhūtāni tri-pādasyāmṛtaṃ dīvī
“The past, present, and future universes are manifestations of the Lord’s powers, but the Lord Himself is much greater. All the living beings of the universe are but one-quarter portion, and the eternal nature in the spiritual sky exists in three-quarters portion.”
In the Nārada-pañcarātra (2.2.39 and 99) it is stated:
mahā-viṣṇoś ca lomnāṃ ca vivareṣu pṛthak pṛthak brahmāṇḍāni ca pratyekam asaṅkhyāni ca nārada
“Innumerable universes emanate from the pores of Mahā-Viṣṇu’s body. O Nārada, vast reservoirs of water issue from His bodily pores and enter each of those universes.”
sa eva ca mahā-viṣṇuḥ kṛṣṇasya paramātmanaḥ ṣoḍāśāṃśo bhagavataḥ parasya prakṛteḥ paraḥ
“Lord Mahā-Viṣṇu, who is beyond the material creation, is only the one- sixteenth portion of Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Soul.” In the Brahma- saṃhitā (5.35) it is stated as follows:
eko ‘py asau racayituṃ jagad-aṇḍa-koṭiṃ yac-chaktir asti jagad-aṇḍa-cayā yad-antaḥ
aṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-sthaṃ govindam ādi-puruṣaṃ tam ahaṃ bhajāmi
“I worship the Personality of Godhead, Govinda, who, by one of His plenary portions, enters into the existence of every universe and every particle of the atoms and thus unlimitedly manifests His infinite energy all over the material creation.”
Keśava Bhāratī, whom Śrī Caitanyadeva made glorious by acting as his disciple and accepting him as His spiritual master, was most fortunate.