Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 3.2.305, 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 305 of Antya-khanda chapter 2—“Description of the Lord’s Travel Through Bhuvaneshvara and Other Placesto Jagannatha Puri”.
Verse 3.2.305
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.2.305:
যার মন্ত্রে সকল মূর্তিতে বৈসে প্রাণ সেই প্রভু—শ্রী-কৃষ্ণ-চৈতন্যচন্দ্র নাম ॥ ৩০৫ ॥
यार मन्त्रे सकल मूर्तिते वैसे प्राण सेइ प्रभु—श्री-कृष्ण-चैतन्यचन्द्र नाम ॥ ३०५ ॥
yāra mantre sakala mūrtite vaise prāṇa sei prabhu—śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanyacandra nāma || 305 ||
yara mantre sakala murtite vaise prana sei prabhu—sri-krsna-caitanyacandra nama (305)
English translation:
(305) Life is invoked in the Deity forms of the Supreme Lord by chanting His holy names. That Lord has now appeared as Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
The system of invoking life in the Deity form of the Supreme Lord by chanting the mahā-mantra given by Śrī Gaura is practiced in the Śrī Gauḍīya-sampradāya. Without chanting the Lord’s holy names, the concept that the arcā-vigraha is made of stone does not disappear. The rules and regulations for worship that Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanyadeva prescribed according to the concepts of the kṛṣṇa-varṇaṃ tviṣākṛṣṇaṃ verse consist of lively and proper worship of the Lord’s Deity, based simply on chanting the mahā-mantra. Wherever the Lord’s service is performed without the physical involvement of the worshiper or wherever the
worship is performed as a matter of formality, such worship and such deities are devoid of life. Chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra preached by Śrī Gaurasundara is the topmost lively form of worship for a worshiper.