Verse 1.16.115

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.16.115:

দৃঢ করি’ মারে তা’রা প্রাণ লৈবারে মনঃ-স্মৃতি নাহি হরিদাসের প্রহারে ॥ ১১৫ ॥

दृढ करि’ मारे ता’रा प्राण लैबारे मनः-स्मृति नाहि हरिदासेर प्रहारे ॥ ११५ ॥

dṛḍha kari’ māre tā’rā prāṇa laibāre manaḥ-smṛti nāhi haridāsera prahāre || 115 ||

drdha kari’ mare ta’ra prana laibare manah-smrti nahi haridasera prahare (115)

English translation:

(115) They beat him severely in order to kill him, but Haridāsa was not even disturbed by their beating.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Being bewildered by waves of thoughts about the external world, the ordinary conditioned souls accept their own flickering mind as the director of all their activities. But since the devotees of the Lord are constantly engaged in the service of Hari, they do not engage their mind in enjoying external material objects. Rather, they do not retain any memory of any material incident or object. In other words, they have

completely forgotten all false bodily identification. It is stated: kṛṣṇa- nāme prīta, jaḍe udāsīna, nirdoṣa ānanda-maya—“They are attached to the holy names of Kṛṣṇa, indifferent to material objects, faultless, and always joyful.”