Verse 2.10.208

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.10.208:

সঙ্গ-দোষ তোমার সকল হৈল ক্ষয তোর স্থানে আমার হৈল পরাজয ॥ ২০৮ ॥

सङ्ग-दोष तोमार सकल हैल क्षय तोर स्थाने आमार हैल पराजय ॥ २०८ ॥

saṅga-doṣa tomāra sakala haila kṣaya tora sthāne āmāra haila parājaya || 208 ||

sanga-dosa tomara sakala haila ksaya tora sthane amara haila parajaya (208)

English translation:

(208) “The faults of your bad association are vanquished. I have been defeated by you.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

The Supreme Lord is controlled by love. A devotee is able to control the Lord with love in such a way that he is always capable of even changing the Lord’s will. Mahāprabhu said, “O Mukunda, My extraordinary power has been defeated by your loving service. Forgetting your position as an eternal servant of the Lord, you forgot your constitutional duties as a result of the bad association you had at that time. Therefore you were affected by bad association. By the influence of the Lord’s eternal devotees’ association your temporary taste for the nondevotional path has been converted into eternal taste. Therefore, aversion to the Lord cannot be present in you. I gave you the benediction that you would achieve devotional service to the Lord. But according to the degree of your offense, I ascertained that your reinstatement in devotional service would take millions of births. Due to your intense eagerness for devotional service, you have surpassed the time determined by Me in a moment. My potency has been defeated by your potency.”