Verse 2.10.102

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.10.102:

যে পাপিষ্ঠ বৈষ্ণবের জাতি-বুদ্ধি করে জন্ম জন্ম অধম যোনিতে ডুবি’ মরে ॥ ১০২ ॥

ये पापिष्ठ वैष्णवेर जाति-बुद्धि करे जन्म जन्म अधम योनिते डुबि’ मरे ॥ १०२ ॥

ye pāpiṣṭha vaiṣṇavera jāti-buddhi kare janma janma adhama yonite ḍubi’ mare || 102 ||

ye papistha vaisnavera jati-buddhi kare janma janma adhama yonite dubi’ mare (102)

English translation:

(102) A sinful person who considers that Vaiṣṇavas belong to a particular caste suffers in the lowest species of life, birth after birth.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

If through external vision one considers a Vaiṣṇava is poor and devoid of respect due to caste or family, then he greatly increases his sinful life. As a result, he becomes polluted and takes birth in a lower species. The Padma Purāṇa says:

śūdraṃ vā bhagavad-bhaktaṃ niṣādaṃśva-pacaṃ tathā vīkṣate jāti-sāmānyāt sa yāti narakaṃ dhruvam

“One who considers a devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead who was born in a family of śūdras, niṣādas or caṇḍālas to belong to that particular caste certainly goes to hell.

śva-pākam iva nekṣeta loke vipram avaiṣṇavam vaiṣṇavo varṇo-bāhyo ‘pi punāti bhuvana-trayam

“If a person born in a brāhmaṇa family is an avaiṣṇava, a nondevotee, one should not see his face, exactly as one should not look upon the face of a caṇḍāla, or dog-eater. However, a Vaiṣṇava found in varṇas other than brāhmaṇa can purify all the three worlds.

arcye viṣṇau śilā-dhīr guruṣu nara-matir vaiṣṇave jāti-buddhir viṣṇor vā vaiṣṇavānāṃ kali-mala-mathane pāda-tīrthe ‘mbu-buddhiḥ śrī-viṣṇor nāmni mantre sakala-kaluṣa-he śabda-sāmānya-buddhir

viṣṇau sarveśvareśe tad-itara-sama-dhīr yasya vā nārakī saḥ

“One who thinks the Deity in the temple to be made of wood or stone, who thinks of the spiritual master in the disciplic succession as an ordinary man, who thinks the Vaiṣṇava in the Acyuta-gotra to belong to a certain caste or creed or who thinks of caraṇāmṛta or Ganges water as ordinary water is taken to be a resident of hell.”