Verse 1.14.88

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.14.88:

শ্রী-চৈতন্য-চন্দ্র বিনে অন্যেরে ঈশ্বর যে অধম বলে’ সেই ছার শোচ্যতর ॥ ৮৮ ॥

श्री-चैतन्य-चन्द्र विने अन्येरे ईश्वर ये अधम बले’ सेइ छार शोच्यतर ॥ ८८ ॥

śrī-caitanya-candra vine anyere īśvara ye adhama bale’ sei chāra śocyatara || 88 ||

sri-caitanya-candra vine anyere isvara ye adhama bale’ sei chara socyatara (88)

English translation:

(88) Anyone who accepts someone other than Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu as the Supreme Lord is fallen, insignificant, and fit for living in hell.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Presently a few persons from the Māyāvāda-sampradāya have promoted an insignificant ordinary human being, who is controlled by māyā and who is a servant of his senses, as an incarnation of Kṛṣṇa, an incarnation

of Rāma, an incarnation of Gaura, an incarnation of Gopāla, an incarnation of Kalki, a joint incarnation of Nitāi-Gaura, a jagad-guru, a viśva-guru, a yuga-avatāra, and as Mahā-Mahāprabhu. They have thus welcomed offenses, and as a result the followers of such illogical so- called incarnations, who are opposed to the descending process of knowledge or the incarnation of Lord Viṣṇu, rather than attaining the position of the Supreme Lord in their next life, will take birth as jackals. (“Those who cultivate material knowledge take birth as jackals in their next lives.”) One should also refer to the Mahābhārata (Śānti-parva, Mokṣa-dharma, 180.48-50).