Verse 2.1.224

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.1.224:

তোর পাদ-পদ্মের স্মরণ নাহি যথাহেন কৃপা কর, প্রভু! না ফেলিবা তথা ॥ ২২৪ ॥

तोर पाद-पद्मेर स्मरण नाहि यथाहेन कृपा कर, प्रभु! ना फेलिबा तथा ॥ २२४ ॥

tora pāda-padmera smaraṇa nāhi yathāhena kṛpā kara, prabhu! nā phelibā tathā || 224 ||

tora pada-padmera smarana nahi yathahena krpa kara, prabhu! na pheliba tatha (224)

English translation:

(224) “O Lord, grant me the mercy that You will not send me to any place where remembrance of Your lotus feet is absent.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

“Since Your mercy is not manifest in a place where one finds either the desire for temporary material sense gratification or the checking of the desire for temporary material sense gratification—in other words, material enjoyment or renunciation—or where one finds attachment and hatred rather than remembrance of Your lotus feet, Your illusory cruelty towards the godless living entities is directly or indirectly present there. Please give up such illusory cruelty and deceit and never captivate me with material objects that are not related to You—this is my heartfelt prayer. If Your causeless mercy is showered on me, then You will always illuminate and remain in the pathway of my memory, and this I will consider Your nonduplicitous mercy. May I not be vanquished by forgetting Your lotus feet as a result of the fierce attacks of happiness and distress produced from my own sense gratification.”