Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 3.5.458, 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 458 of Antya-khanda chapter 5—“The Pastimes of Nityananda”.
Verse 3.5.458
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.5.458:
নিত্যানন্দ-প্রভুবর-মহিমা অপার বণিক্ অধম মূর্খ যে কৈল নিস্তার ॥ ৪৫৮ ॥
नित्यानन्द-प्रभुवर-महिमा अपार वणिक् अधम मूर्ख ये कैल निस्तार ॥ ४५८ ॥
nityānanda-prabhuvara-mahimā apāra vaṇik adhama mūrkha ye kaila nistāra || 458 ||
nityananda-prabhuvara-mahima apara vanik adhama murkha ye kaila nistara (458)
English translation:
(458) The glories of Nityānanda Prabhu are unlimited. He delivered even the foolish, degraded merchants.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
Since the suvarṇa-vaṇiks were naturally uneducated fools and were always absorbed in thinking about mundane wealth, their hearts became polluted. Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu delivered all the merchants who were present at the time. Later on some so-called devotees inimical to Nityānanda took birth among those merchants and have become as well as are becoming averse to Hari.