Verse 1.14.82

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.14.82:

মধ্যে-মধ্যে মাত্র কত পাপি-গণ গিযা লোক নষ্ট করে আপনারে লওযাইযা ॥ ৮২ ॥

मध्ये-मध्ये मात्र कत पापि-गण गिया लोक नष्ट करे आपनारे लओयाइया ॥ ८२ ॥

madhye-madhye mātra kata pāpi-gaṇa giyā loka naṣṭa kare āpanāre laoyāiyā || 82 ||

madhye-madhye matra kata papi-gana giya loka nasta kare apanare laoyaiya (82)

English translation:

(82) Sometimes sinful persons try to mislead people by accepting their homage for themselves.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

The phrase loka naṣṭa kare means “ruining the people,” or in other words, depriving them from their spiritual life and sending them to hell.

The short form of the word laoyāiyā is laoyā (from the Sanskrit verb lā), which refers here to instigating or inducing others to glorify oneself by giving advice or encouragement.

Joining the devotees in chanting the glories of Kṛṣṇa, some sinful persons create disturbances in Śrī Caitanya’s saṅkīrtana movement. When

simple-minded people engage in kīrtana along with these sinful persons, who are attached to irrelevant fruits, they are unable to achieve the supreme goal. Since the nonenvious pure devotees are not cheated by the

four vargas—religiosity, economic development, sense gratification, and liberation—they obtain the fruit of chanting Kṛṣṇa’s names. But persons attached to material enjoyment that enter devotee communities dressed as devotees either desire the fruits of three vargas or poison the devotee community with the desire for liberation and thus influence them to accept not kṛṣṇa-prema but material enjoyment and liberation as the real fruit of glorifying Kṛṣṇa. Following the doctrines of the bāulas, kartābhajās, and ativāḍīs, these sinful persons sometimes advertise themselves as the Supreme Lord, or Viṣṇu, and thus misguide people.