Verse 3.2.355

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.2.355:

বিশেষে দিযাছ প্রভু, মোরে অহঙ্কার আপনারে বড বৈ নাহি দেখোঙার ॥ ৩৫৫ ॥

विशेषे दियाछ प्रभु, मोरे अहङ्कार आपनारे बड बै नाहि देखोङार ॥ ३५५ ॥

viśeṣe diyācha prabhu, more ahaṅkāra āpanāre baḍa bai nāhi dekhoṅāra || 355 ||

visese diyacha prabhu, more ahankara apanare bada bai nahi dekhonara (355)

English translation:

(355) “O Lord, somehow or other You have given me a false ego, and as a result I do not recognize anyone as superior to me.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

False ego is produced from the mode of ignorance. By the will of the Supreme Lord, the guṇa-avatāra Mahādeva is invested with the power of destruction. Therefore the unauthorized philosophies propounded by the impersonalist Kāśirāja, the commentator Śrīkaṇṭha, who was a follower of the śaiva-viśiṣṭādvaita philosophy, and other impersonalists like Apyayi Dīkṣita have been completely refuted in the Śruta-prakāśikā commentary on Śrī-bhāṣya by Śrī Sudarśanācārya, the servant of Śrī Rāmānuja. Yet while raising its head later on the philosophy of śaiva- viśiṣṭādvaita was out of misfortune smashed into pieces by the weapon of Sudarśana in the form of the śuddha-viśiṣṭādvaita philosophy.

māyāvādam asac-chāstraṃ pracchannaṃ bauddham ucyate mayaiva vihitaṃ devi kalau brāhmaṇa-mūrtinā

“In the Age of Kali I take the form of a brāhmaṇa and explain the Vedas through false scriptures in an atheistic way, similar to Buddhist philosophy.” The activities mentioned in this verse describe the mission of the predominating deity of the false ego. But Śrī Viṣṇusvāmī, who was engaged in the service of the Supreme Lord, took shelter at the lotus feet of Śrī Rudra, his spiritual master, in such a way that he restored the spiritual ego in place of all forms of mundane false ego.