Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 3.2.1, 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 1 of Antya-khanda chapter 2—“Description of the Lord’s Travel Through Bhuvaneshvara and Other Placesto Jagannatha Puri”.
Verse 3.2.1
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.2.1:
জয জয গৌরচন্দ্র জয সর্ব-প্রাণ জয দুষ্ট-ভযঙ্কর জয শিষ্ট-ত্রাণ ॥ ১ ॥
जय जय गौरचन्द्र जय सर्व-प्राण जय दुष्ट-भयङ्कर जय शिष्ट-त्राण ॥ १ ॥
jaya jaya gauracandra jaya sarva-prāṇa jaya duṣṭa-bhayaṅkara jaya śiṣṭa-trāṇa || 1 ||
jaya jaya gauracandra jaya sarva-prana jaya dusta-bhayankara jaya sista-trana (1)
English translation:
(1) All glories to Gauracandra! All glories to the life and soul of all! All glories to You, the personification of fear for the miscreants! All glories to the deliverer of the devotees!
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Since Śrī Caitanya is svayam-rūpa Śrī Kṛṣṇa, He is the life and soul of all living entities. He is the fierce Yamarāja for the miscreants who are envious of Hari, Guru, and Vaiṣṇava. For sober devotees like Prahlāda, He is the deliverer from aversion to devotional service. After accepting the renounced order of life, Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanyadeva did not accept that the living entities are one with Brahman or that this material world is false. The Māyāvādīs, who do not discriminate between sinful and sober persons, and the fruitive workers, who do discriminate, are both enthusiastic for material activities born of the three modes of nature, but since Śrī Gaurasundara did not approve of such conceptions of the materialists, karmis, jñānīs, and yogis, He exhibited the pastime of preaching pure devotional service and distributing ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa.