Verse 1.16.21

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.16.21:

হরিদাস-ঠাকুর্ ও অদ্বৈত-দেব-সঙ্গে ভাসেন গোবিন্দ-রস-সমুদ্র-তরঙ্গে ॥ ২১ ॥

हरिदास-ठाकुर् ओ अद्वैत-देव-सङ्गे भासेन गोविन्द-रस-समुद्र-तरङ्गे ॥ २१ ॥

haridāsa-ṭhākur o advaita-deva-saṅge bhāsena govinda-rasa-samudra-taraṅge || 21 ||

haridasa-thakur o advaita-deva-sange bhasena govinda-rasa-samudra-tarange (21)

English translation:

(21) Similarly, in the association of Advaita Prabhu, Haridāsa Ṭhākura floated in the waves of the ocean of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

By the influence of Śrī Advaita Prabhu’s association, Haridāsa Ṭhākura also floated in the ocean of the transcendental mellows of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Many people think that since Haridāsa Ṭhākura was busy in only chanting the holy names, he did not enter into relishing the

transcendental mellows in relationship with Govinda. Such belief of the prākṛta-sahajiyās is most erroneous, because the holy names of Kṛṣṇa are the bestowers of all spiritual benedictions and nondifferent from Kṛṣṇa, the embodiment of all transcendental mellows. Simply by chanting the holy names of Kṛṣṇa, one relishes the transcendental mellows related with Kṛṣṇa. There is no possibility of relishing the transcendental mellows related with Kṛṣṇa by any other process. Ṭhākura Haridāsa was the actual knower of the transcendental mellows related with Kṛṣṇa, and he is the principle teacher for understanding rasa-śāstras, or literatures filled with the transcendental mellows related with Kṛṣṇa. Due to committing offenses against the holy names of the Lord, the sentimental prākṛta-sahajiyā sampradāyas become bewildered with material enjoyment and thus have no information regarding the transcendental mellows related with the holy names.