Verse 2.10.246-248

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.10.246-248:

এই তোরে সত্য কহোঙ্, বড প্রিয তুমি বেদ-মুখে বলিযাছি যত কিছু আমি যে-যে-কর্ম কৈলে হয, যে-যে-দিব্য-গতি তাহা ঘুচাইতে পারে কাহার শকতি? মুঞি পারোঙ্ সকল অন্যথা করিবারে সর্ব-বিধি-উপরে মোহার অধিকারে ॥ ২৪৬-২৪৮ ॥

एइ तोरे सत्य कहोङ्, बड प्रिय तुमि वेद-मुखे बलियाछि यत किछु आमि ये-ये-कर्म कैले हय, ये-ये-दिव्य-गति ताहा घुचाइते पारे काहार शकति? मुञि पारोङ् सकल अन्यथा करिबारे सर्व-विधि-उपरे मोहार अधिकारे ॥ २४६-२४८ ॥

ei tore satya kahoṅ, baḍa priya tumi veda-mukhe baliyāchi yata kichu āmi ye-ye-karma kaile haya, ye-ye-divya-gati tāhā ghucāite pāre kāhāra śakati? muñi pāroṅ sakala anyathā karibāre sarva-vidhi-upare mohāra adhikāre || 246-248 ||

ei tore satya kahon, bada priya tumi veda-mukhe baliyachi yata kichu ami ye-ye-karma kaile haya, ye-ye-divya-gati taha ghucaite pare kahara sakati? muni paron sakala anyatha karibare sarva-vidhi-upare mohara adhikare (246-248)

English translation:

(246-248) “You are very dear to Me. I am telling you the truth. Who has the

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

power to nullify the various duties and their concomitant results I have prescribed in the Vedas? It is I alone who can change these, for My authority is beyond all rules and regulations.

“It is certainly true that you are very dear to Me, for you are always engaged in singing My holy names. The topics in the Vedic literatures that are prescribed according to the qualification of the karmis who desire the fruits of their activities and the topics of the Upaniṣads, which are the head of the Vedas, that are prescribed according to the qualification of the jñānīs who desire liberation are prescriptions that apply only to the respective karmis and jñānīs. But My order is more powerful than all those rules and regulations.” In the Brahma-vaivarta Purāṇa it is stated:

daivādhīnaṃ jagat sarvaṃ janma-karma śubhāśubham saṃyogaś ca viyogaś ca na ca daivāt paraṃ balam

kṛṣṇāyattaṃ ca tad daivaṃ sa daivāt paratas tataḥ bhajanti satataṃ santaḥ paramātmānam īśvaram

daivaṃ vardhayituṃśaktaḥ kṣayaṃ kartuṃ svalīlayāna daiva-baddhas tad bhaktaś cāvināśī ca nirguṇaḥ

“All activities of a human being are under the control of providence. What to speak of this, the entire world is under the control of providence. Birth, activities, the results of pious and impious actions, and the meeting and separation of all living entities are under the control of providence.

Therefore there is no force superior to providence. Yet Lord Kṛṣṇa is greater than providence. Since providence is under the control of Lord Kṛṣṇa, saintly persons worship Kṛṣṇa, who is the Supersoul and Supreme Personality of Godhead. Through His pastimes, Śrī Kṛṣṇa can diminish or expand this providence. Therefore the devotees of Lord Kṛṣṇa are not bound by providence. They are imperishable and transcendental.”