Verse 1.15.30-32

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.15.30-32:

অতএব যত মহা-মহিম সকলে ‘গৌরাঙ্গ-নাগর’ হেন স্তব নাহি বলে যদ্যপি সকল স্তব সম্ভবে তাহানে তথাপিহ স্বভাব সে গায বুধ-জনে হেন-মতে শ্রী-মুকুন্দ-সঞ্জয-মন্দিরে বিদ্যা-রসে শ্রী-বৈকুণ্ঠ-নাযক বিহরে ॥ ৩০-৩২ ॥

अतएव यत महा-महिम सकले ‘गौराङ्ग-नागर’ हेन स्तव नाहि बले यद्यपि सकल स्तव सम्भवे ताहाने तथापिह स्वभाव से गाय बुध-जने हेन-मते श्री-मुकुन्द-सञ्जय-मन्दिरे विद्या-रसे श्री-वैकुण्ठ-नायक विहरे ॥ ३०-३२ ॥

ataeva yata mahā-mahima sakale ‘gaurāṅga-nāgara’ hena stava nāhi bale yadyapi sakala stava sambhave tāhāne tathāpiha svabhāva se gāya budha-jane hena-mate śrī-mukunda-sañjaya-mandire vidyā-rase śrī-vaikuṇṭha-nāyaka vihare || 30-32 ||

ataeva yata maha-mahima sakale ‘gauranga-nagara’ hena stava nahi bale yadyapi sakala stava sambhave tahane tathapiha svabhava se gaya budha-jane hena-mate sri-mukunda-sanjaya-mandire vidya-rase sri-vaikuntha-nayaka vihare (30-32)

English translation:

(30-32) Therefore great personalities do not offer prayers addressing Lord Gaurāṅga as “Gaurāṅga Nāgara,” the enjoyer of damsels. Although all kinds of prayers may be offered to the Supreme Lord, intelligent persons glorify only those characteristics that a particular incarnation manifests. In this way the Lord of Vaikuṇṭha enjoyed His scholastic pastimes in the house of Mukunda Sañjaya.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

That is why the sampradāyas of mahājanas who are eternally perfect associates of the Lord and always engaged in glorifying the Lord as well as their nonduplicitous followers who sing and recite the glories of the Lord never in any way illicitly addressed, address, or will address Śrī Gaurāṅga Mahāprabhu as nāgara, the enjoyer of conjugal pastimes. Śrī Gaurasundara is Himself Śrī Vrajendra-nandana, the only enjoyer of all women in both the material and spiritual kingdoms, yet there is no basis for glorifying Kṛṣṇa as nāgara in His Gaura pastimes, as such actions are

extremely contrary to the proper conclusions of serving Gaura-Kṛṣṇa. Vrajendra-nandana Kṛṣṇa, who is Gopī-jana-vallabha, is the personification of conjugal affairs. The Gaura pastimes of Kṛṣṇa are by nature in the mood of vipralamba, or separation. Therefore no intelligent nonduplicitous devotee of Gaura will try to disturb the Lord’s mood as Nārāyaṇa, the Lord of Vaikuṇṭha, who in His beginning pastimes as a scholar is the worshipable Lord of all His students, who are under the shelter of regulative devotional service, or disturb His mood of mahābhāva, which consists of His desire to please Kṛṣṇa and which manifested in the mood of separation after His pastime of taking initiation, as described in His middle and final pastimes. In other words, they do not designate Him as the imaginary hero of conjugal mellows.

The foolish unfortunate sampradāyas who are fond of illicitly enjoying other’s wives and who are under the control of worldly propensities actively endeavor to designate Gaurasundara and both His male and female devotees as enjoyers and enjoyed and thus reveal their own poor fund of knowledge and evil-mindedness. Considering that the Lord engaged in hearing and chanting worldly topics in His pastimes as an ācārya is extremely contrary to His nature and preaching. Rather, just as the enactment of transcendental conjugal pastimes is eternally present in the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa, the transcendental vipralambha-rasa, instead of conjugal rasa, is eternally present in the pastimes of Gaura. By the association of women, or by seeing mundane women, perverted mellows are awakened, and as a result the most relishable spiritual rasa, which is beyond material consciousness, does not appear in the pure illuminated heart. The activities of material enjoyment, which are opposed to spiritual rasa, capture the conditioned souls’ hearts, which are filled with ignorance. All these topics are glorified by greatly praised wise men who know the science of Kṛṣṇa. In other words, they are glorified by sober, intelligent worshipers of the Lord. If one wants to elaborately and conclusively know, discuss, or consider these subjects, which are in full agreement with the statements of sadhu, śāstra, and guru, then he should

read the spiritual weekly magazine, Gauḍīya, 5th year, Nos. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, and 24.