Verse 2.8.120

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.8.120:

এ-গুলা সকলে মধুমতী-সিদ্ধি জানে রাত্রি করি’ মন্ত্র জপি’ পঞ্চ কন্যা আনে ॥ ১২০ ॥

ए-गुला सकले मधुमती-सिद्धि जाने रात्रि करि’ मन्त्र जपि’ पञ्च कन्या आने ॥ १२० ॥

e-gulā sakale madhumatī-siddhi jāne rātri kari’ mantra japi’ pañca kanyā āne || 120 ||

e-gula sakale madhumati-siddhi jane ratri kari’ mantra japi’ panca kanya ane (120)

English translation:

(120) “These people know the mystic perfection of madhumatī. They chant mantras at night to call five virgins.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

“The devotees achieve the perfection known as madhumatī, and by the influence of mantras, they call five kinds of unmarried girls and have illicit affairs with them.” The medieval age was polluted by various abominable activities like pañca-makāra [Pañca-makāra refers to māṃsa, madya, matsya, mahila, and maithuna—meat, wine, fish, women, and sex.] and vīrācāra [A tantric practice based on sex.], practiced by tantrics in the mode of ignorance. People who were envious of devotional service did not hesitate to attribute such abominable activities on the devotees who were engaged in unmotivated kīrtana.

Madhumatī-siddhi is achieved by invoking a particular heavenly damsel

named Madhumatī. It is described in the Kṛkalāsa-dīpikā as follows: “Madhumatī is a particular heavenly damsel. A sādhaka can control her through mantras. By achieving perfection in this art, hundreds of heavenly girls come under one’s control. Whenever the sādhaka wants to go to either heaven, Pātāla, or anywhere on earth, those girls immediately take him there. There is no doubt about this.”