Chaitanya Bhagavata
by Bhumipati Dāsa | 2008 | 1,349,850 words
The Chaitanya Bhagavata 3.5.493, 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 493 of Antya-khanda chapter 5—“The Pastimes of Nityananda”.
Verse 3.5.493
Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.5.493:
অদ্বৈতের বাক্য বুঝিবার শক্তি কার? জানিহ ঈশ্বর-সনে ভেদ নাহি যাঙ্র ॥ ৪৯৩ ॥
अद्वैतेर वाक्य बुझिबार शक्ति कार? जानिह ईश्वर-सने भेद नाहि याङ्र ॥ ४९३ ॥
advaitera vākya bujhibāra śakti kāra? jāniha īśvara-sane bheda nāhi yāṅra || 493 ||
advaitera vakya bujhibara sakti kara? janiha isvara-sane bheda nahi yanra (493)
English translation:
(493) Who has the power to understand the words of Advaita? Indeed, He is nondifferent from the Supreme Lord.
Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:
See the verse advaitaṃ hariṇādvaitād from Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara’s notebook [and quoted here also) in Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā, Chapter One, verse 13].