Verse 2.5.140-141

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.5.140-141:

বৈষ্ণব-হিংসার কথা সে থাকুক দূরে সহজ জীবেরে যে অধম পীডা করে বিষ্ণু পূজিযা ও যে প্রজার পীডা করে পূজা ও নিষ্ফলে যায, আর দুঃখে মরে ॥ ১৪০-১৪১ ॥

वैष्णव-हिंसार कथा से थाकुक दूरे सहज जीवेरे ये अधम पीडा करे विष्णु पूजिया ओ ये प्रजार पीडा करे पूजा ओ निष्फले याय, आर दुःखे मरे ॥ १४०-१४१ ॥

vaiṣṇava-hiṃsāra kathā se thākuka dūre sahaja jīvere ye adhama pīḍā kare viṣṇu pūjiyā o ye prajāra pīḍā kare pūjā o niṣphale yāya, āra duḥkhe mare || 140-141 ||

vaisnava-himsara katha se thakuka dure sahaja jivere ye adhama pida kare visnu pujiya o ye prajara pida kare puja o nisphale yaya, ara duhkhe mare (140-141)

English translation:

(140-141) What to speak of being envious of Vaiṣṇavas, if one causes pain to ordinary living entities he is considered a fallen low-class person. Even after worshiping Lord Viṣṇu, if a person gives trouble to other living entities, his worship becomes fruitless. Such a person suffers unlimited miseries.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

If a person is knowingly or unknowingly envious of a Vaiṣṇava engaged in the nonduplicitous service of Lord Hari, his degradation is inevitable. Of this there is no doubt. Apart from this, if even persons claiming to be devotees of Viṣṇu are envious of ordinary living entities and give various troubles to them, they are actually far away from devotional service to Viṣṇu and are not fit to be called human beings. Their worship of Viṣṇu becomes the source of misery. Those endowed with an absence of jīve- dayā, or compassion for other living entities, and yet proudly consider themselves servants of Lord Viṣṇu achieve the threefold miseries rather than the devotional service of the Lord.