Verse 2.49

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.49:

“সকল-সুহৃত্ কৃষ্ণ” সর্ব-শাস্ত্র কহে এতেকে কৃষ্ণের কেহ দ্বেষ্যোপেক্ষ্য নহে ॥ ৪৯ ॥

“सकल-सुहृत् कृष्ण” सर्व-शास्त्र कहे एतेके कृष्णेर केह द्वेष्योपेक्ष्य नहे ॥ ४९ ॥

“sakala-suhṛt kṛṣṇa” sarva-śāstra kahe eteke kṛṣṇera keha dveṣyopekṣya nahe || 49 ||

“sakala-suhrt krsna” sarva-sastra kahe eteke krsnera keha dvesyopeksya nahe (49)

English translation:

(49) All the scriptures declare: “Kṛṣṇa is the friend of all.” Therefore no one is hated or neglected by Kṛṣṇa.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the only maintainer of all universes of animate and inanimate beings and has been ascertained by all scriptures as the supreme shelter and only benefactor of all living entities. That is why no one is a proper candidate for Kṛṣṇa’s hatred or negligence. Since all living entities are constitutionally eternal servants of Kṛṣṇa, they are all recipients of His mercy or compassion.

The phrase sakala-suhṛt means “all-auspicious.” As stated: sarveṣāṃ hitakārī yaḥ sa syāt sarva-śubhaṅkaraḥ—“An all-auspicious person is he who is engaged in the welfare of everyone.”

That no one is hated or neglected by Kṛṣṇa is explained in the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (10.38.22), wherein Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī explains in the following words to Mahārāja Parīkṣit the thoughts of Akrūra as he approached Gokula:

na tasya kaścid dayitaḥ suhṛttamo na cāpriyo dveṣya upekṣya eva vā tathāpi bhaktān bhajate yathā tathā

sura-drumo yadvad upāśrito ‘rtha-daḥ

“The Supreme Lord has no favorite and no dearmost friend, nor does He consider anyone undesirable, despicable or fit to be neglected. All the same, He lovingly reciprocates with His devotees in whatever manner they worship Him, just as the trees of heaven fulfill the desires of whoever approaches them.”

In the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (Dakṣiṇa-vibhāga, Chapter One) it is stated [by Uddhava, after Kṛṣṇa departed for His own abode]:

kṛtā kṛtārthā munayo vinodaiḥkhala- kṣayeṇākhila-dharmikāś ca

vapur vimardena khalāś ca yudhe na kasya pathyaṃ hariṇā vyadhāyi

“Who has not been benefited by that Lord, Śrī Hari, who has destroyed all inimical kings and pleased the self-satisfied sages and pious persons by glorifying their qualities, and who also satisfied those inimical kings by personally killing them on the battlefield?”