Verse 1.16.76-77

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.16.76-77:

বলিতে লাগিলা তা’রে মধুর উত্তর “শুন, বাপ, সবারৈ একৈ ঈশ্বর নাম-মাত্র ভেদ করে হিন্দুযে যবনে পরমার্থে ‘এক’ কহে কোরাণে পুরাণে ॥ ৭৬-৭৭ ॥

बलिते लागिला ता’रे मधुर उत्तर “शुन, बाप, सबारै एकै ईश्वर नाम-मात्र भेद करे हिन्दुये यवने परमार्थे ‘एक’ कहे कोराणे पुराणे ॥ ७६-७७ ॥

balite lāgilā tā’re madhura uttara “śuna, bāpa, sabārai ekai īśvara nāma-mātra bheda kare hinduye yavane paramārthe ‘eka’ kahe korāṇe purāṇe || 76-77 ||

balite lagila ta’re madhura uttara “suna, bapa, sabarai ekai isvara nama-matra bheda kare hinduye yavane paramarthe ‘eka’ kahe korane purane (76-77)

English translation:

(76-77) He then sweetly said to the king, “Listen, dear sir. The Supreme Lord of all is one without a second. The Hindus and Moslems differentiate the Lord only by name, but in spiritual vision the Lord is one. This is confirmed in the Purāṇas and the Koran.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Still, displaying causeless mercy on the Moslem king, Ṭhākura Haridāsa began to sweetly speak as follows: “The Supreme Personality of Godhead is one, eternal, nondual, and the Lord of all living entities. That one Lord is the controller of the Hindus, Moslems, young and old, and male and female. Hindus and non-Hindu Moslems who are ignorant of the science of the Supreme Lord foolishly oppose each other by concocting two different Gods with separate names, but when they give up such discrimination and difference of opinion and indifferently consider their respective religious scriptures, the Purāṇas and the Koran, then they will never find such differences in the Absolute Truth.