viernes, 10 de junio de 2011

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata - Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura - Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.84-10.131

Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata - Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura

Commentary by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.84

prabhāte uṭhiyā prabhu kari’ snāna-dāna
pitṛ-gaṇe pūjilena kariyā samāna

TRANSLATION


After Nimāi woke the next morning, He took bath, gave charity, and respectfully worshiped His forefathers.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.85

nṛtya-gīta-vādye mahā uṭhila maṅgala
catur-dike ‘leha-deha’ śuni kolāhala

TRANSLATION


Auspicious sounds of singing, dancing, and musical instruments filled the atmosphere. Everywhere excited people were calling out, “Take this! Give that!”

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.86

kata vā milila āsi’ pati-vratā-gaṇa
kateka vā iṣṭa mitra brāhmaṇa sajjana

TRANSLATION


Many chaste women, well-wishers, friends, and respected brāhmaṇas graced the function.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.87

khai, kalā, sindūra, tāmbūla, taila diyā
strī-gaṇere āi tuṣilena harṣa hañā

TRANSLATION


Mother Śacī happily satisfied the ladies with puffed rice, bananas, vermilion, betel, and oil.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.88

deva-gaṇa, deva-vadhu-gaṇa—nara-rūpe
prabhura vivāhe āsi’ āchena kautuke

TRANSLATION


Demigods and their wives took the form of humans and also happily attended the Lord’s marriage.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.89

vallabha-ācārya ei-mata vidhi-krame
karilena deva-pitṛ-kārya harṣa-mane

TRANSLATION


Vallabhācārya joyfully worshiped the demigods and forefathers according to Vedic injunctions.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.90

tabe prabhu śubha-kṣaṇe go-dhūli-samaye
yātrā kari’ āilena miśrera ālaye

TRANSLATION


At an auspicious time, at dusk, the Lord arrived at the house of Vallabhācārya.

COMMENTARY


The phrase go-dhūli-samaya refers to the time of sunset when the herds of cows return to the gośālā and the dust from their hooves covers the sky. Generally this is a suitable for auspicious activities like marriage.

This time has three symptoms:

(1) in autumn and winter season when the sun rays are mild and the sun appears to be red ball,
(2) in summer and spring season when the sun is setting and only half of it is visible,  
(3) in rainy and fall season when the sun becomes invisible after setting. 

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.91

prabhu āsileha mātra, miśra goṣṭhī-sane
ānanda-sāgare magna hailā sabe mane

TRANSLATION


As soon as the Lord arrived, Vallabhācārya and his associates drown in an ocean of bliss.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.92

sambhrame āsana diyā yathā-vidhi-rūpe
jāmātāre vasāilā parama-kautuke

TRANSLATION


He then respectfully offered a seat to his son-in-law and welcomed Him according to Vedic injunctions.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.93

śeṣe sarva-alaṅkāre kariyā bhūṣita
lakṣmī-kanyā ānilena prabhura samīpa

TRANSLATION


Vallabhācārya then had his beautifully decorated daughter brought before the Lord.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.94

hari-dhvani sarva-loke lāgila karite
tulilena sabhe lakṣmīre pṛthvī haite

TRANSLATION


Everyone began to chant the names of Hari as they lifted Lakṣmī off the ground.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.95

tabe lakṣmī pradakṣiṇa kari’ sapta-bāra
yoḍa-haste rahilena kari’ namaskāra

TRANSLATION


Then Lakṣmī was carried around Nimāi seven times. As they placed her before Him, she offered Him obeisances with folded hands.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.96

tabe śeṣe haila puṣpa-mālā-phelā-pheli
lakṣmī-nārāyaṇa doṅhe mahā-kutūhalī

TRANSLATION


As they finally exchanged flower garlands, Lakṣmī and the original Nārāyaṇa were both greatly pleased.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.97

divya-mālā diyā lakṣmī prabhura caraṇe
namaskari’ karilena ātma-samarpaṇe

TRANSLATION


After Lakṣmī offered flower garlands at the feet of the Lord, she offered Him obeisances with full surrender.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.98

sarva-dike mahā jaya-jaya-hari-dhvani
uṭhila paramānanda, āra nāhi śuni

TRANSLATION


All that could be heard was the ecstatic chanting of “All glories to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Hari!”

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.99

hena-mate śrī-mukha-candrikā kari’ rase
vasilena prabhu, lakṣmī kari vāma-pāśe

TRANSLATION


In this way, after they performed the ceremony of seeing each other’s face for the first time, the Lord sat down with Lakṣmī on His left.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.100

prathama-vayasa prabhu jiniñā madana
vāma-pāśe lakṣmī vasilena seikṣaṇa

TRANSLATION


The Lord’s fresh youthful beauty defeated that of Cupid, as Lakṣmī then sat at His left side.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.101

ki śobhā, ki, sukha se haila miśra-ghare
kon jana tāhā varṇibāre śakti dhare?

TRANSLATION


Who has the ability to describe that wonderful scene and the happiness that was experienced at the house of Vallabha Miśra?

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.102

tabe śeṣe vallabha karite kanyā dāna
vasilena yehena bhīṣmaka vidyamāna

TRANSLATION

At last, Vallabhācārya, who is non-different from Bhīṣmaka, sat down to give away his daughter.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.103-104

ye-caraṇe pādya diyā śaṅkara-brahmāra
jagat sṛjite śakti haila sabāra
hena pāda-padme pādya dilā vipra-vara
vastra-mālya-candane bhūṣiyā kalevara

TRANSLATION

The same lotus feet that are worshiped by Śaṅkara and Brahmā to obtain the power of creation were now worshiped by the respected brāhmaṇa, Vallabhācārya. He then also decorated the body of the Lord with cloth, flower garlands, and sandalwood pulp.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.105

yathā-vidhi-rūpe kanyā kari’ samarpaṇa
ānanda-sāgare magna hailā brāhmaṇa

TRANSLATION


After duly offering his daughter to the Lord, the brāhmaṇa became absorbed in an ocean of bliss.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.106

tabe yata kichu kula-vyavahāra āche
pati-vratā-gaṇa tāhā karilena pāche

TRANSLATION


Thereafter the chaste women performed the various traditional family rituals.

COMMENTARY


The phrase kula-vyavahāra refers to the activities of women.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.107

se rātri tathāya thāki tabe āra dine
nija-gṛhe calilena prabhu lakṣmī-sane

TRANSLATION


That night the Lord stayed at the house of Vallabhācārya, and the next day He returned home with Lakṣmī.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.108

lakṣmīra sahita prabhu caḍiyā dolāya
āisena, dekhite sakala loka dhāya

TRANSLATION


As the Lord and Lakṣmī were carried home in a palanquin, people came running out of their house to see them.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.109


gandha, mālya, alaṅkāra, mukuṭa, candana
kajjvale ujjvala dui lakṣmī-nārāyaṇa

TRANSLATION


Both Lakṣmī and the original Nārāyaṇa were wonderfully decorated with sandalwood paste, flower garlands, ornaments, crowns, and bright kajjala.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.110

sarva-loka dekhi’ mātra ‘dhanya dhanya’ bole
viśeṣe strī-gaṇa ati paḍilena bhole

TRANSLATION


Everyone who saw them exclaimed, “How wonderful!” The ladies were all particularly amazed.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.111

“kata-kāla e vā bhāgyavatī hara-gaurī
niṣkapaṭe sevilena kata-bhakti kari

TRANSLATION

Someone said, “They exactly resemble Śiva and Pārvatī. They must have worshiped the Lord without duplicity for a long time.”

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.112

alpa-bhāgye kanyāra ki hena svāmī mile?
ei hara-gaurī hena bujhi”—keha bole

TRANSLATION


“Can a less fortunate girl possibly get such a nice husband?
I conclude that they are Śiva and Pārvatī.”

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.113

keha bole,—“indra-śacī, rati vā madana”
kona nārī bole—“ei lakṣmī-nārāyaṇa”

TRANSLATION


Someone else said, “They resemble Indra and Śacī or Madana and Rati.” One girl said, “They are Lakṣmī and Nārāyaṇa.”

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.114

kona nārī-gaṇa bole—“yena sītā-rāma
dolopari śobhiyāche ati anupama

TRANSLATION


Another girl said, “By their unparalleled beauty, it appears Sītā and Rāma are seated on that palanquin.”

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.115

ei-mata nānā-rūpe bole nārī-gaṇe
śubha-dṛṣṭye sabe dekhe lakṣmī-nārāyaṇa

TRANSLATION


In this way the girls spoke in various ways as they joyfully watched Lakṣmī and the original Nārāyaṇa.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.116

hena-mate nṛtya-gīta-vādya-kolāhale
nija-gṛhe prabhu āilena sandhyā-kāle

TRANSLATION


When the couple arrived at Nimāi’s house in the evening, they were festively greeted by dancing, singing, and the playing of musical instruments.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.117

tabe śacīdevī vipra-patnī-gaṇa laiyā
putra-vadhū ghare ānilena harṣa haiyā

TRANSLATION


Śacīdevī with some other brāhmaṇa ladies then jubilantly welcomed her daughter-in-law home.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.118

dvija-ādi yata jāti naṭa bājaniyā
sabāre tuṣilā dhana, vastra, vākya diyā

TRANSLATION


Thereafter mother Śacī satisfied the brāhmaṇas, musicians, and dancers with money, cloth, and sweet words.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.119

ye śunaye prabhura vivāha-puṇya-kathā
tāhāra saṁsāra-bandha nā haya sarvathā

TRANSLATION


Whoever hears these auspicious topics of the Lord’s marriage is never entangled in worldly life.

COMMENTARY

In this material world people become joyful by hearing about the marriage of a boy and a girl. Encouraged by such topics, the conditioned souls become eager to face the miseries of material bondage. But the topics related with the marriage of Śrīman Mahāprabhu, who is the controller of māyā, are not like this. This pastime of the Lord is meant to demonstrate the uselessness of material existence. A living entity who is attached to material enjoyment considers the marriage of a mundane boy and girl to be the ideal example of sense gratification, and if he considers the spiritual pastimes of the Supreme Lord’s marriage as similar to the conditioned soul’s sense gratificatory activities, which are apparently sweet but ultimately poison, he will certainly be entangled in the bondage of material existence. But the Supreme Lord is the only object of all enjoyment, and the servants, maidservants, and wonderful ingredients of service, which are all under His control, cannot produce such inauspiciousness. Wherever the happiness of the Lord is present, the sense gratification of the living entities cannot remain. In this regard one should discuss auspicious nectarean statements such as the following verses from Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (11.2.42):

bhaktiḥ pareśānubhavo viraktir
anyatra caiṣa trika eka-kālaḥ

“Devotion, direct experience of the Supreme Lord, and detachment from other things—these three occur simultaneously,”

Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (1.2.187):

īhā yasya harer dāsye      karmaṇā manasā girā
nikhilāsv apy avasthāsu      jīvan-muktaḥ sa ucyate

“A person acting in the service of Kṛṣṇa with his body, mind, intelligence, and words is a liberated person even within the material world, although he may engage in many apparently material activities.”

The Supreme Lord Viṣṇu is the transcendental controller of māyā, so to consider Him material or like an ordinary living entity is a great offense. When a transcendental service attitude towards the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu is awakened, then liberated devotees inclined towards serving the Lord are no longer entangled in material bondage. In other words, if a living entity is eager to please the Supreme Lord, he becomes freed from the bondage of material existence, which is separate from the Lord, and never personally endeavours for sense gratification or material enjoyment.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.120

prabhu-pārśve lakṣmīra haila avasthāna
śacī-gṛha haila parama-jyotir-dhāma

TRANSLATION


With Lakṣmī at the side of the Lord, the house of Śacī appeared like Vaikuṇṭha, the most effulgent abode.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.121

niravadhi dekhe śacī ki ghare bāhire
parama adbhuta jyotiḥ lakhite nā pāre

TRANSLATION


Such a wonderful effulgence constantly emanated from the house that mother Śacī could not even see properly.

COMMENTARY


By the arrival of Śrīmatī Lakṣmīpriyā-devī, who is the direct personification of one of the Supreme Lord’s internal potencies, known as Śrī-śakti, the house of Śrī Śacī actually became the effulgent Vaikuṇṭha abode of the Supreme Lord.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.122

kakhana putrera pāśe dekhe agni-śikhā
ulaṭiyā cāhite, nā pāya āra dekhā

TRANSLATION


Sometimes Śacī saw flames of fire at the side of her son, but when she looked again they were gone.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.123

kamala-puṣpera gandha kṣaṇe kṣane pāya
parama-vismita āi cintena sadāya

TRANSLATION


When she sometimes smelled the fragrance of a lotus flower, she was utterly astonished.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.124

āi cinte,—“bujhilāṅa kāraṇa ihāra
e kanyāya adhiṣṭhāna āche kamalāra

TRANSLATION


Śacī thought, “I can understand the reason for this. This girl is a plenary portion of Lakṣmī-devī.”

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.125

ataeva jyotiḥ dekhi, padma-gandha pāi
pūrva-prāya daridratā-duḥkha ebe nāi

TRANSLATION


“That is why I see this effulgence and smell the fragrance of lotus flowers. Now we may not face any poverty like before.”

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.126

ei lakṣmī-vadhū gṛhe praveśile
kothā haite nā jāni āsiyā saba mile?”

TRANSLATION


“Otherwise where has everything come from since this daughter-in-law, Lakṣmī, entered my house?”

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.127

ei-rūpa nānā-mata kathā āi kaya
vyakta haiyā o prabhu vyakta nāhi haya

TRANSLATION


In this way mother Śacī had various thoughts, as the Lord almost but not quite manifest Himself.

COMMENTARY

Although the Supreme Lord appeared in this world, out of His sweet will He did not manifest His covered pastimes to everyone.


CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.128


īśvarera icchā bujhibāra śakti kā’ra?
ki-rūpe karena kon kālera vihāra?

TRANSLATION


Who can understand the supreme will of the Lord?
How and when does He perform His pastimes?

COMMENTARY


The words kālera vihāra mean “enjoying pastimes suitable for a particular time.”

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.129

īśvare se āpanāre nā jānāye yabe
lakṣmī o jānite śakti nā dharena tabe

TRANSLATION


Until the Lord Himself allows one to know Him, even Lakṣmī has no power to understand Him.

COMMENTARY


By the supreme will of the Lord, His covered pastimes are beyond the perception of even His internal potencies.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.130

ei saba śāstre vede purāṇe vākhāne
‘yā’re tā’na kṛpā haya, sei jāne tā’ne

TRANSLATION


The Vedas, Purāṇas, and other scriptures confirm that only one who is favoured by the Lord can understand Him.

CB Ādi-khaṇḍa 10.131

śrī kṛṣṇa-caitanya nityānanda-cānda jāna
vṛndāvana dāsa tachu pada-yuge gāna

TRANSLATION


Accepting Śrī Caitanya and Nityānanda Prabhu as my life and soul, I, Vṛndāvana dāsa, sing the glories of Their lotus feet.

Thus ends this English translation of the Gauḍīya-bhāṣya commentary on Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Ādi-khaṇḍa, Chapter Ten, entitled, “The Marriage of Śrī Lakṣmīpriyā.”

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