Verse 2.20.33

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.20.33:

“সন্ন্যাসী প্রকাশানন্দ বসযে কাশীতে মোরে খণ্ড খণ্ড বেটা করে ভাল মতে ॥ ৩৩ ॥

“सन्न्यासी प्रकाशानन्द वसये काशीते मोरे खण्ड खण्ड बेटा करे भाल मते ॥ ३३ ॥

“sannyāsī prakāśānanda vasaye kāśīte more khaṇḍa khaṇḍa beṭā kare bhāla mate || 33 ||

“sannyasi prakasananda vasaye kasite more khanda khanda beta kare bhala mate (33)

English translation:

(33) “A sannyāsī named Prakāśānanda lives in Kāśī. That fellow enjoys cutting Me to pieces.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

The Māyāvādīs annyāsīs of Kāśī consider, “This material world is false, there is no variety in Vaikuṇṭha, the varieties found in this world are false, the living entities have no eternal form, and out of illusion the Supreme Brahman imagines that He has taken the form of the living entities. When this illusion is removed, the impersonal Brahman remains. The Supreme Lord has no spiritual form, because all forms within this material world are illusory. Impersonal Brahman is eternally formless.

The names, forms, qualities, associates, characteristics, and pastimes of the Supreme Lord are the result of vivarta, or illusion, born of material conceptions (which in English is called anthropomorphism). There is no worshipable supreme person in the form of the Supreme Lord. The principles of service and the object of service are found only in the

material context. The conception that the sac-cid-ānanda Personality of Godhead is separate from impersonal Brahman is born of vivarta.

Worship is temporary. To consider the Supreme Personality of Godhead as impersonal is freedom from ignorance.” These are the ideas of the impersonalists. Being cheated from spiritual life, the sannyāsīs of Kāśī tried to destroy the spiritual body of the Supreme Lord by cutting it to pieces. The Māyāvādī sannyāsī named Prakāśānanda was the leader of such sannyāsīs, and he became prominent among all sannyāsīs during the time of Mahāprabhu. Because of the prominence of envy in this material world, the main occupation of impersonalism is to attack the concept of eternal variegatedness. This was not the desire of Śrī Gaurasundara.