Verse 2.13.263

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.13.263:

কোটি ব্রহ্ম বধি’ যদি তব নাম লয সদ্য মোক্ষ-পদ তার—বেদে সত্য কয ॥ ২৬৩ ॥

कोटि ब्रह्म वधि’ यदि तव नाम लय सद्य मोक्ष-पद तार—वेदे सत्य कय ॥ २६३ ॥

koṭi brahma vadhi’ yadi tava nāma laya sadya mokṣa-pada tāra—vede satya kaya || 263 ||

koti brahma vadhi’ yadi tava nama laya sadya moksa-pada tara—vede satya kaya (263)

English translation:

(263) “It is stated in the Vedas that a person who has killed millions of

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

brāhmaṇas immediately attains liberation if he chants Your name.

In the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (6.13.8) it is stated:

brahma-hā pitṛ-hā go-ghno mātṛ-hācārya-hāghavān śvādaḥ pulkasako vāpi śuddhyeran yasya kīrtanāt

“One who has killed a brāhmaṇa, one who has killed a cow or one who has killed his father, mother or spiritual master can be immediately freed from all sinful reactions simply by chanting the holy name of Lord Nārāyaṇa. Other sinful persons, such as dog-eaters and caṇḍālas, who are less than śūdras, can also be freed in this way.” In the Padma Purāṇa, Uttara-khaṇḍa, Chapter Fifty-one, it is stated:

brahma-hā hema-dhārī vā bāla-hā go-ghna eva ca mucyate nāma-mātreṇa prasādāt keśavasya tu

“One who kills a brāhmaṇa, one who steals gold, one who kills a child, one who kills a cow, and one commits other heinous sins can immediately become freed from all sinful reactions by simply chanting the names of Keśava.”

Among all offenses in this world, there is no offense comparable to becoming envious of the Vaiṣṇavas and brāhmaṇas and killing their brahminical qualities by inducing them to give up their devotion to Viṣṇu. The knower of Brahman is supreme within the fourteen worlds. Among the knowers of Brahman, perfection lies in achieving devotional service to Viṣṇu; and by the influence of devotional service to Viṣṇu, love of God, the ultimate goal of life, is achieved. If a living entity becomes envious of devotional service, he cannot develop a taste for chanting the holy names of the Lord. Then attachment for accepting a path other than devotional service is seen. This is brahma-vadha, or killing of a brāhmaṇa; but even after engaging in this kind of brahma- vadha, if by the mercy of a devotee the living entity awakens a propensity for chanting the holy names, he becomes freed from the offense of killing

millions of brāhmaṇas and realizes that the Lord and His name are nondifferent. At that time the avidvad-rūḍhi of the living entity’s words is checked. Kṛṣṇa’s name is Kṛṣṇa, and until other words that are separated from Kṛṣṇa manifest through vidvad-rūḍhi, the living entities invite inauspiciousness due to imagining such differences. In this way the living entity attains aversion to Kṛṣṇa and becomes busy awarding different meanings to words. The philosophy of acintya-bhedābheda removes the differences between the avidvad-rūḍhi and the vidvad-rūḍhi of words and destroys the dualities in the conceivable world of material enjoyment.