Verse 1.2.24-26

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 1.2.24-26:

पुनः सत्वरम् आगत्य स्वार्घ्य-स्वीकरणाद् वयम् ।
अनुग्राह्यास् त्वयेत्य् उक्तोऽस्मान् आदिशति वञ्चयन् ॥ २४ ॥
यावन् नाहं समायामि तावद् ब्रह्मा शिवोऽथवा ।
भवद्भिः पूजनीयोऽत्र मत्तो भिन्नौ न तौ यतः ॥ २५ ॥
एक-मूर्तिस् त्रयो देवा विष्णु-रुद्र-पितामहाः ।
इत्य्-आदि-शास्त्र-वचनं भवद्भिर् विस्मृतं किम् उ ॥ २६ ॥

punaḥ satvaram āgatya svārghya-svīkaraṇād vayam |
anugrāhyās tvayety ukto'smān ādiśati vañcayan || 24 ||
yāvan nāhaṃ samāyāmi tāvad brahmā śivo'thavā |
bhavadbhiḥ pūjanīyo'tra matto bhinnau na tau yataḥ || 25 ||
eka-mūrtis trayo devā viṣṇu-rudra-pitāmahāḥ |
ity-ādi-śāstra-vacanaṃ bhavadbhir vismṛtaṃ kim u || 26 ||

Again our Lord quickly returns to accept His worship with arghya water and other paraphernalia offered by me. But when we pray, “O Prabhu, we are your favored recipients…” He cleverly replies, “Until I return, you should worship Brahmā or Śiva, because they are nondifferent from Me. Viṣṇu, Rudra and Pitāmahā (Brahmā) are three demigods in one divine form. Have you forgotten these words from the scriptures?”

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

(By Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī himself including a deep purport of that commentary)

In order to deceive us, He orders, “As long as I do not return, you should worship Brahmā or Śiva because we are nondifferent.” However, we are ananya-gati, that is, we are not interested in worshipping any sacred object other than the lotus feet of Śrī Viṣṇu.

He cites such śāstric proof as eka-mūrtis trayo devāḥ, “Viṣṇu, Rudra and Brahmā are three deities in one divine form.” Previously, He had introduced us to the worship of Brahmā and Śiva—this is simply a way of deceiving us. Therefore, out of respect for the words of Bhagavān, even in the celestial plane we hear accounts of ostentatious festivals of the worship of Śrī Rudra. All this must be reconciled.