Verse 1.9.228

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.9.228:

ইথে এক-জনের হৈযা পক্ষ যেই অন্য-জনে নিন্দা করে, ক্ষয যায সেই ॥ ২২৮ ॥

इथे एक-जनेर हैया पक्ष येइ अन्य-जने निन्दा करे, क्षय याय सेइ ॥ २२८ ॥

ithe eka-janera haiyā pakṣa yei anya-jane nindā kare, kṣaya yāya sei || 228 ||

ithe eka-janera haiya paksa yei anya-jane ninda kare, ksaya yaya sei (228)

English translation:

(228) If a person takes the side of one Vaiṣṇava and criticizes another, he is certainly vanquished.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

If someone due to misfortune and material conceptions considers the loving quarrels of the eternally liberated devotees, who are always eager to please Kṛṣṇa, to be like the dualities enjoyed by the conditioned souls, who are agitated by disturbances to their sense gratification, and thus takes the side of one and criticizes the other, then, as a result of his imprudence, his ruination is guaranteed. Without understanding how the most pleasing transcendental opposing parties, who nourish the pastimes of the Absolute Lord Śrī Gaura-Kṛṣṇa, are wonderfully increasing their

respective attachment for the Lord, if someone praises one and condemns another due to his enjoying spirit and fruitive mentality, he is certainly inviting his own downfall, or in other words, he is ruining himself.