Verse 1.9.225

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.9.225:

এত পরিহারে ও যে পাপী নিন্দা করে তবে লাথি মারোঙ্ তা’র শিরের উপরে ॥ ২২৫ ॥

एत परिहारे ओ ये पापी निन्दा करे तबे लाथि मारोङ् ता’र शिरेर उपरे ॥ २२५ ॥

eta parihāre o ye pāpī nindā kare tabe lāthi māroṅ tā’ra śirera upare || 225 ||

eta parihare o ye papi ninda kare tabe lathi maron ta’ra sirera upare (225)

English translation:

(225) Therefore I kick the head of any sinful person who disregards the glories of Lord Nityānanda and dares to criticize Him.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

The word parihāra means “to rectify the faults,” “to drop the charges,” “to pray,” “to offer,” “to abandon,” and “to neglect.”

In order to permanently stop the continual irreverence towards the Supreme Lord by those hellish people who enviously criticize Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu and to render them eternal benefit and good sense, the author is ready to kick them in the head. By this statement of the most merciful Śrī Ṭhākura Mahāśaya to the staunch atheists, the transcendental goddess of learning, Śuddhā Sarasvatī, displays the firm attachment of a servant towards his master, Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu, thus teaching everyone through illuminating words that although Ṭhākura Mahāśaya and other pure devotees who act and preach in his footsteps are detached from those who are extremely uninterested in their own welfare, who are determined to run towards hell, and who are ignorant of the truth regarding Śrī Nityānanda, they are nevertheless selflessly and causelessly merciful towards the fallen souls. While Śrīla Ṭhākura Vṛndāvana, who is a Vaiṣṇava ācārya, the direct incarnation of Vyāsa, and servant of Śrī Nityānanda, enacts his pastime of transcendentally kicking, if even one particle of dust falls on the head of some fortunate persons, they will certainly achieve auspiciousness, in other words, their anartha-nivṛtti, or freedom from unwanted things, is guaranteed. The exhibition of such great compassion by Śrī Viṣṇu or the Vaiṣṇavas is beyond the imagination or intelligence of the foolish nondevotees, who can not discriminate between what is favorable and what is unfavorable for their own welfare. The all-auspicious endeavors and behavior of the preachers and practitioners of pure devotional service to Gaura-Kṛṣṇa who follow in the footsteps of Ṭhākura Śrī Vṛndāvana, who is the direct incarnation of

Śrī Vyāsa, display on one hand gross punishment on the fallen averse living entities and on the other hand subtle unlimited compassion on them.