Verse 1.11.10

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.11.10:

যতেক ‘প্রকৃতি’ দেখে মদন-সমন ‘পাষণ্ডী’ দেখযে যেন যম বিদ্যমান ॥ ১০ ॥

यतेक ‘प्रकृति’ देखे मदन-समन ‘पाषण्डी’ देखये येन यम विद्यमान ॥ १० ॥

yateka ‘prakṛti’ dekhe madana-samana ‘pāṣaṇḍī’ dekhaye yena yama vidyamāna || 10 ||

yateka ‘prakrti’ dekhe madana-samana ‘pasandi’ dekhaye yena yama vidyamana (10)

English translation:

(10) All the ladies considered the Lord to be as attractive as Cupid, and the atheists considered Him as death personified.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

In this material world, the men are the enjoyers and the women are the objects of enjoyment. In other words, the women are enjoyed by the men and the men are enjoyed by the women. An enjoyer enjoys his objects of enjoyment with his senses. Both the male and female enjoy material objects through their jñānendriyas, or knowledge-acquiring senses, and karmendriyas, or working senses. Gaurasundara is directly Lord Kṛṣṇa, therefore He is the abode of all beauty, surpassing millions of Cupids.

Gaurasundara is never an object of enjoyment for mundane women, that is why He cannot be the object of worship for the gaura-nāgarīs. When a living entity becomes self-realized, the Madana-mohana form of Gaurasundara manifests within his heart. Although the conditioned souls who identify themselves as women may consider Gaurasundara as an object of enjoyment, Gaurahari does not fulfill their prayers. The moods of master and servant are present in this material world. For the living entities to think themselves the masters of material nature rather than considering themselves the servants of the Supreme Lord is an

impediment in their constitutional duties of devotional service. Śrī Gaurasundara has personally displayed to the living entities the prime example of how to be a servant of the Supreme Lord and thus removed the enjoying mood from their conditioned minds. That is why the followers of Gaurahari cannot accept Him as nāgara, the enjoyer of women. Lord Gaurasundara never demonstrated that He was under the control of any material conditions in His pastimes. But even if someone out of great misfortune forgets that he is the eternal servant of the servitor God and thinks himself to be the object of service, Śrī Gaurasundara still awakens his service attitude towards Gaura-Kṛṣṇa by removing such evil propensities.