Chaitanya Bhagavata

by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words

The Chaitanya Bhagavata 3.5.383, 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 383 of Antya-khanda chapter 5—“The Pastimes of Nityananda”.

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.5.383:

প্রেম-ভক্তি-বিকারের যত আছে নাম সব প্রকাশিযা নৃত্য করে অনুপাম ॥ ৩৮৩ ॥

प्रेम-भक्ति-विकारेर यत आछे नाम सब प्रकाशिया नृत्य करे अनुपाम ॥ ३८३ ॥

prema-bhakti-vikārera yata āche nāma saba prakāśiyā nṛtya kare anupāma || 383 ||

prema-bhakti-vikarera yata ache nama saba prakasiya nrtya kare anupama (383)

English translation:

(383) He displayed all the transformations of ecstatic love as He danced incomparably.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

There are eight types of sāttvika-bhāvas, or transcendental symptoms, and thirty-three kinds of sañcāri-bhāvas, or continuously existing ecstatic symptoms.

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