Chaitanya Bhagavata

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

The Chaitanya Bhagavata 3.8.152, 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 152 of Antya-khanda chapter 8—“Mahaprabhu’s Water Sports in Narendra- sarovara”.

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.8.152:

অতএব সন্ন্যাসাশ্রম সবার বন্দিত সন্ন্যাসী সন্ন্যাসী নমস্কার সে বিহিত ॥ ১৫২ ॥

अतएव सन्न्यासाश्रम सबार वन्दित सन्न्यासी सन्न्यासी नमस्कार से विहित ॥ १५२ ॥

ataeva sannyāsāśrama sabāra vandita sannyāsī sannyāsī namaskāra se vihita || 152 ||

ataeva sannyasasrama sabara vandita sannyasi sannyasi namaskara se vihita (152)

English translation:

(152) Therefore the sannyāsa order is to be respected by all. It is prescribed that a sannyāsī should offer obeisances to other sannyāsīs.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

The smṛtis have prescribed the atonement for not offering obeisances to a

sannyāsī as follows:

devatā-pratimāṃ dṛṣṭvā yatiṃ caiva tridaṇḍinam namaskāraṃ na kuryāc ced upavāsena śudhyati

“One who does not offer respect to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, to His Deity in the temple, or to a tridaṇḍī sannyāsīmust purify himself by fasting.”

In his commentary on Bhagavad-gītā (5.2) Śrī Madhvācārya quotes the

Nāradīya Purāṇa as follows:

sannyāsas tu turīyo yo niṣkriyākhyaḥ sadharmakaḥna tasmād uttamo dharmo loke kaścana vidyate

“The fourth spiritual order is sannyāsa, in which one renounces all kinds of activities. There is no superior religious principle in the world than this.”

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