Verse 2.13.318

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.13.318:

সর্ব-দেহে মুঞি করোঙ্, বোলোঙ্, চলোঙ্ খাঙ তবে দেহপাত, যবে মুঞি চলি’ যাঙ ॥ ৩১৮ ॥

सर्व-देहे मुञि करोङ्, बोलोङ्, चलोङ् खाङ तबे देहपात, यबे मुञि चलि’ याङ ॥ ३१८ ॥

sarva-dehe muñi karoṅ, boloṅ, caloṅ khāṅa tabe dehapāta, yabe muñi cali’ yāṅa || 318 ||

sarva-dehe muni karon, bolon, calon khana tabe dehapata, yabe muni cali’ yana (318)

English translation:

(318) “In the bodies of all living entities, it is I who makes them act, speak, move, and eat. When I leave a body, it dies.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

When the living entity attains spiritual knowledge he no longer maintains the three types of false ego. The living entity then surrenders at the lotus feet of the Lord and becomes liberated. In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Antya 4.192-193) it is stated:

dīkṣā-kāle bhakta kare ātma-samarpaṇa sei-kāle kṛṣṇa tāre kare ātma-sama

sei deha kare tāra cid-ānanda-maya aprākṛta-dehe tāṅra caraṇa bhajaya

“At the time of initiation, when a devotee fully surrenders unto the service of the Lord, Kṛṣṇa accepts him to be as good as Himself. When the devotee’s body is thus transformed into spiritual existence, the devotee, in that transcendental body, renders service to the lotus feet of the Lord.” After Śrī Gaurasundara accepted the bodies of Jagāi and Mādhāi to be as good as His own, whatever He had them do, whatever He had them speak, however He had them behave, and whatever He had them eat was favorable for the service of Viṣṇu. In this way, after turning one towards the Lord’s service, the worshipable Lord takes His worshiper servant, who leaves a body made of the five gross elements within the material world, and departs.