Verse 2.7.94-095

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.7.94-095:

দেখি’ গদাধর মহা হৈলা বিস্মিত তখন সে মনে বড হৈলা চিন্তিত “হেন মহাশযে আমি অবজ্ঞা করিলুঙ্কোন্ বা অশুভ-ক্ষণে দেখিতে আইলুঙ্ ॥ ৯৪-০৯৫ ॥

देखि’ गदाधर महा हैला विस्मित तखन से मने बड हैला चिन्तित “हेन महाशये आमि अवज्ञा करिलुङ्कोन् वा अशुभ-क्षणे देखिते आइलुङ् ॥ ९४-०९५ ॥

dekhi’ gadādhara mahā hailā vismita takhana se mane baḍa hailā cintita “hena mahāśaye āmi avajñā kariluṅkon vā aśubha-kṣaṇe dekhite āiluṅ || 94-095 ||

dekhi’ gadadhara maha haila vismita takhana se mane bada haila cintita “hena mahasaye ami avajna karilunkon va asubha-ksane dekhite ailun (94-095)

English translation:

(94-095) After seeing this, Gadādhara was struck with wonder and became somewhat worried. “I have disrespected such a great personality. At what inauspicious time did I come to see him?”

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

On seeing Vidyānidhi Mahāśaya’s opulent paraphernalia and his expertise in enjoying those items, Gadādhara Paṇḍita concluded that he was devoid of devotional service to the Lord; but Vidyānidhi’s exhibition of indifference towards those items and his ecstatic transformations of love upon hearing Mukunda’s recitation about the mercy Kṛṣṇa bestowed on Pūtanā produced astonishment in Gadādhara’s heart.

Gadādhara knew how ordinary foolish people are absorbed in enjoying form, taste, smell, sound, and touch; so he was struck with wonder after

witnessing how Vidyānidhi Mahāśaya was completely aloof from those objects while remaining in their proximity and how he remained always anxious for the service of Kṛṣṇa on the strength of his internal tendency. And after Gadādhara considered such a mahā-bhāgavata equal to an ordinary materialist, he became worried, thinking that he had committed vaiṣṇava-aparādha.