Verse 2.1.203

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.1.203:

চিত্ত দিযাশুন, মাতা! জীবের যে গতি কৃষ্ণ না ভজিলে পায যতেক দুর্গতি ॥ ২০৩ ॥

चित्त दियाशुन, माता! जीवेर ये गति कृष्ण ना भजिले पाय यतेक दुर्गति ॥ २०३ ॥

citta diyāśuna, mātā! jīvera ye gati kṛṣṇa nā bhajile pāya yateka durgati || 203 ||

citta diyasuna, mata! jivera ye gati krsna na bhajile paya yateka durgati (203)

English translation:

(203) “Dear mother, please hear attentively about the destination of the individual soul and the volume of distress he suffers by not worshiping Kṛṣṇa.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

The pathetic condition of the living entities who are bereft of the service of Lord Kṛṣṇa is described in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Madhya 20.117- 118) as follows:

kṛṣṇa bhuli’ sei jīva anādi-bahirmukha ataeva māyā tāre deya saṃsāra-duḥkha

kabhu svarge uṭhāya, kabhu narake ḍubāya daṇḍya-jane rājā yena nadīte cubāya

“Forgetting Kṛṣṇa, the living entity has been attracted by the external feature from time immemorial. Therefore the illusory energy [māyā] gives him all kinds of misery in his material existence. In the material condition, the living entity is sometimes raised to higher planetary systems and material prosperity and sometimes drowned in a hellish situation. His state is exactly like that of a criminal whom a king punishes by submerging him in water and then raising him again from the water.”

One should particularly discuss the statements of Lord Kapiladeva to His mother, Devahūti, found in the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, Third Canto, Chapter Thirty and Chapter Thirty-one, verses 1-31.