Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 3.5.358, 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 358 of Antya-khanda chapter 5—“The Pastimes of Nityananda”.
Verse 3.5.358
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.5.358:
পাষণ্ডী ও দেখিলেই মাত্র করে স্তুতি সর্বস্ব দিবারে সেই ক্ষণে হয মতি ॥ ৩৫৮ ॥
पाषण्डी ओ देखिलेइ मात्र करे स्तुति सर्वस्व दिबारे सेइ क्षणे हय मति ॥ ३५८ ॥
pāṣaṇḍī o dekhilei mātra kare stuti sarvasva dibāre sei kṣaṇe haya mati || 358 ||
pasandi o dekhilei matra kare stuti sarvasva dibare sei ksane haya mati (358)
English translation:
(358) Even the atheists who saw Him offered Him respects and considered offering everything to Him.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Those who consider transcendental Viṣṇu and Vaiṣṇavas as equal to mundane objects or ordinary persons are called pāṣaṇḍīs, or atheists. Even such godless people would offer respect to Nityānanda Prabhu when they saw Him. By seeing the Supreme Lord, their mundane conceptions based on material enjoyment were vanquished. Therefore they ended up surrendering everything to the Lord. Those who surrender everything to the Supreme Lord do not see the external world as the object of their enjoyment, in other words, they become liberated souls.