Verse 1.11.55

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.11.55:

কেহ বোলে,—“কত বা পডিলুঙ্ ভাগবত নাচিব কাঙ্দিব,—হেন না দেখিলুঙ্ পথ ॥ ৫৫ ॥

केह बोले,—“कत वा पडिलुङ् भागवत नाचिब काङ्दिब,—हेन ना देखिलुङ् पथ ॥ ५५ ॥

keha bole,—“kata vā paḍiluṅ bhāgavata nāciba kāṅdiba,—hena nā dekhiluṅ patha || 55 ||

keha bole,—“kata va padilun bhagavata naciba kandiba,—hena na dekhilun patha (55)

English translation:

(55) Someone else said, “I have studied Śrīmad Bhāgavatam for a long time, but I have never found any mention of dancing and crying as a spiritual path.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Due to a poor fund of knowledge, the asslike, so-called scriptural reciters

with steel-framed hearts proudly declare that there is no instruction in Śrīmad Bhāgavatam that devotees should cry and dance while hearing and chanting the names of Kṛṣṇa. Although the inauspicious instruction for the artificial dancing and crying that the proud reciters and listeners of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam exhibit in order to fulfill their mundane selfishness is not found in Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, the transformations of ecstatic love born from the loving service of Lord Kṛṣṇa that are sometimes spontaneously manifested in the pure living entities who are absorbed in the service of Hari are profusely mentioned in Śrīmad Bhāgavatam.