Verse 1.14.84

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.14.84:

কোন পাপি-গণ ছাডি’ কৃষ্ণ-সঙ্কীর্তন আপনারে গাওযায বলিযা ‘নারাযণ’ ॥ ৮৪ ॥

कोन पापि-गण छाडि’ कृष्ण-सङ्कीर्तन आपनारे गाओयाय बलिया ‘नारायण’ ॥ ८४ ॥

kona pāpi-gaṇa chāḍi’ kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtana āpanāre gāoyāya baliyā ‘nārāyaṇa’ || 84 ||

kona papi-gana chadi’ krsna-sankirtana apanare gaoyaya baliya ‘narayana’ (84)

English translation:

(84) Other sinful persons give up chanting the names of Kṛṣṇa and claim to be Nārāyaṇa. They then induce others to chant their glories.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

When sinful persons become extremely offensive by posing as gurus concocted by their own self-worship, they give up śrī-kṛṣṇa-saṅkīrtana, which is the source of all auspiciousness. They teach the society of fools who are ignorant of the Absolute Truth to secure profit, adoration, and distinction so that they can fulfill their own material desires. These sinful persons advertise themselves as Nārāyaṇa, that is, the Supreme Lord or an incarnation of the Supreme Lord; and Mahāprabhu along with His associates, as well as Śrī Mahā-mantra, who appears as śabda-brahma in the form of syllables, who is the highest worshipable object for all animate and inanimate beings, and who was glorified by Mahāprabhu as being nondifferent from Lord Kṛṣṇa, they consider as ordinary mortal forms desirous of material fame like themselves. Following this conception, they induce others to glorify their mundane names or sound vibrations related with their families, houses, and bodies, which are full of stool and worms and which ultimately turn to ashes. Although guru- tattva is actually a manifestation of Kṛṣṇa, if one considers the spiritual master as the supreme worshipable object, Rādhikā-nātha, rather than considering him a manifestation of the supreme worshiper, or if one considers him simply an artificial singer of folk songs, which are contrary to the mahā-mantra given by the spiritual master, and if one declares or induces others to glorify his material body to be the Supreme Lord in order to accumulate mundane fame, then such a cheating so-

called guru and his cheated followers will both enter hell under the burden of great sins.