Chaitanya Bhagavata

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

The Chaitanya Bhagavata 3.6.118, 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 118 of Antya-khanda chapter 6—“The Glories of Shri Nityananda Prabhu”.

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.6.118:

তাঙ্হার আচার—বিধি-নিষেধের পার তাঙ্হারে জানিতে শক্তি আছযে কাহার ॥ ১১৮ ॥

ताङ्हार आचार—विधि-निषेधेर पार ताङ्हारे जानिते शक्ति आछये काहार ॥ ११८ ॥

tāṅhāra ācāra—vidhi-niṣedhera pāra tāṅhāre jānite śakti āchaye kāhāra || 118 ||

tanhara acara—vidhi-nisedhera para tanhare janite sakti achaye kahara (118)

English translation:

(118) “His behavior is beyond all rules and regulations. Who has the power to understand Him?

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Foolish people with no understanding of Śrī Nityānanda, the source of all viṣṇu-tattvas, consider Him an ordinary living entity forced to enjoy the fruits of karma like themselves, and thus they traverse the path to hell. If as a result of committing offenses described in verses like arcye viṣṇau śilā-dhīr, one sees Lord Viṣṇu as equal to other personalities, then he is certain to go to hell. People who are puffed-up with false ego and cheated by mundane knowledge bring about their own ruination by seeing them through external vision as equal. As a result, they fall from the lotus feet of Gopīnātha. What to speak of this, they even fall from the lotus feet of Āloyārnātha. When a person loses the good fortune of serving

Āloyārnātha, he begins to worship the Jagannātha of the pañcopāsakas. While worshiping Jagannātha, he fixes his mind in the worship of Bhuvaneśvara. Thereafter, when he commits offense at the feet of Bhuvaneśvara, the best of the devotees, he develops the propensity to perform pious activities. As a result, the desire awakens in him to take bath in and perform fruitive activities at the Vaitaraṇī River in Yājapura. When he falls from pious activities and begins to commit sinful activities, he becomes ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā, or bewildered by false ego, and the sense of considering himself the doer distracts him from the path of spiritual life. When he further increases his offenses, he becomes averse to seeing the beauty of Śrī Gopīnātha’s lotus feet. Therefore, those who have not discussed the purport of the Vedic statement: nāyam ātmā bala-hīnena (“One cannot attain the goal of life without the mercy of Balarāma”) are inevitably degraded. Without the mercy of Nityānanda Prabhu, no living entity can attain any auspiciousness. If as a result of mundane knowledge one feels powerful and gives up the service of Baladeva, then he cannot attain the good fortune of serving Kṛṣṇa.

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