Verse 2.10.185

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.10.185:

ক্ষণে দন্তে তৃণ লয, ক্ষণে জাঠি মারে ও খড-জাঠিযা বেটা না দেখিবে মোরে” ॥ ১৮৫ ॥

क्षणे दन्ते तृण लय, क्षणे जाठि मारे ओ खड-जाठिया बेटा ना देखिबे मोरे” ॥ १८५ ॥

kṣaṇe dante tṛṇa laya, kṣaṇe jāṭhi māre o khaḍa-jāṭhiyā beṭā nā dekhibe more” || 185 ||

ksane dante trna laya, ksane jathi mare o khada-jathiya beta na dekhibe more” (185)

English translation:

(185) “Sometimes he takes a straw in his teeth, and sometimes he beats with a stick. Therefore this straw-stick holder cannot see Me.”

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

“Sometimes Mukunda holds a straw between his teeth to express his humility, and sometimes he attacks Me. According to his consideration, his one hand is at My feet and his other hand is on My neck. Whenever it suits him he becomes My subordinate, and at other times he blasphemes Me. Mukunda is a synthesizer. He identifies himself according to what suits him and thus invites his own inauspiciousness. Therefore I do not feel like giving any benediction to him. Sometimes he discusses the book Yoga-vāśiṣṭha with Advaita and supports the Māyāvāda philosophy, and sometimes he gives up the Māyāvāda philosophy and expresses humility in the attempt to cultivate Kṛṣṇa consciousness. When I instruct others to always chant the names of Hari by becoming more humble than a blade of grass, more tolerant than a tree, ready to offer all respects to others, and not expecting respect for oneself, then, considering himself a servant of Advaita, Mukunda desires to become one with Brahman, gives up the quality of tolerance, and supports the philosophy of Yoga-vāśiṣṭha, which is a misinterpretation of Vedānta. Moreover, with a desire to sit among the Vaiṣṇavas, he pretends to be decorated with the humility of an exalted devotee and thus identifies himself as a `devotee.’”