Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 3.2.2, 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 2 of Antya-khanda chapter 2—“Description of the Lord’s Travel Through Bhuvaneshvara and Other Placesto Jagannatha Puri”.
Verse 3.2.2
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.2.2:
জয শেষ রমা অজ ভবের ঈশ্বর জয কৃপা-সিন্ধু দীনবন্ধু ন্যাসি-বর ॥ ২ ॥
जय शेष रमा अज भवेर ईश्वर जय कृपा-सिन्धु दीनबन्धु न्यासि-वर ॥ २ ॥
jaya śeṣa ramā aja bhavera īśvara jaya kṛpā-sindhu dīnabandhu nyāsi-vara || 2 ||
jaya sesa rama aja bhavera isvara jaya krpa-sindhu dinabandhu nyasi-vara (2)
English translation:
(2) All glories to the Lord of Ananta Śeṣa, Lakṣmī, Brahmā, and Śiva! All glories to the best of the sannyāsīs, who is an ocean of mercy and the friend of the poor!
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Since the pañcopāsakas, who worship five deities, and those who worship many deities wrongly conclude that the guṇa-avatāras Śiva and Brahmā as well as Lakṣmī, the potency of the Supreme Lord, and Ananta Śeṣa, the servant of the Lord, are equal to svayam-rūpa Kṛṣṇa, the devotees have established that Kṛṣṇa alone is the Lord of all demigods and servants of those who are subordinate to Him. So that no one would consider that Mahāprabhu was not the preacher of a mahā-bhāgavata’s pastimes by considering Him an ordinary karmi- or jñānī-sannyāsī, who are both forced to enjoy the fruits of their karma, Mahāprabhu was the only friend of the karmis, jñānīs, materialists, and fallen souls; He was the friend of the devotees; He was most merciful; He was the Lord of all; and He was svayam-rūpa Kṛṣṇa. Since He enacted the pastime of giving up all the misconceptions of the materialists, karmis, jñānīs, and pseudo devotees, He is the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa. To reveal that all manifestations are exhibitions of His acintya-bhedābheda, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, accepted the dress of the best of the mahā-bhāgavata sannyāsīs. Rather than attributing the spirit of worldly enjoyment on the Supreme Lord and accepting the human beings as God, the Supreme Lord remained aloof from the conceptions of material time, place, and circumstance in the course of adventing in this world, in India, in Bengal, in Nadia to teach the conclusion of acintya- bhedābheda philosophy and to enact the pastime of awarding living entities the ultimate goal of life.