Verse 2.16.122-123

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.16.122-123:

“দরিদ্র সেবক মোর তুমি জন্ম জন্ম আমারে সকল দিযা তুমি ভিক্ষু-ধর্ম আমিহ তোমার দ্রব্য অনুক্ষণ চাই তুমি না দিলে ও আমি বল করি’ খাই ॥ ১২২-১২৩ ॥

“दरिद्र सेवक मोर तुमि जन्म जन्म आमारे सकल दिया तुमि भिक्षु-धर्म आमिह तोमार द्रव्य अनुक्षण चाइ तुमि ना दिले ओ आमि बल करि’ खाइ ॥ १२२-१२३ ॥

“daridra sevaka mora tumi janma janma āmāre sakala diyā tumi bhikṣu-dharma āmiha tomāra dravya anukṣaṇa cāi tumi nā dile o āmi bala kari’ khāi || 122-123 ||

“daridra sevaka mora tumi janma janma amare sakala diya tumi bhiksu-dharma amiha tomara dravya anuksana cai tumi na dile o ami bala kari’ khai (122-123)

English translation:

(122-123) “You are My poor servant birth after birth. You give Me everything and remain a beggar. I always desire your foodstuffs. Even if you don’t give Me, I forcibly take and eat them.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Śrī Mahāprabhu said to Śuklāmbara, “You are My impoverished devotee birth after birth. You have no desire to enter family life and become a householder. You beg alms door to door as a brahmacārī and offer Me whatever you collect. You are a naiṣṭhika-brahmacārī, or lifelong celibate. You are free from even the mundane false ego of the gṛhasthas and vānaprasthas. Being situated in paramahaṃsa-dharma, you have accepted the occupational duties of a renounced akiñcana. Therefore you are a fully surrendered tridaṇḍi-bhikṣu, or Vaiṣṇava sannyāsī. You have been able to fully offer Me all endeavors of your body, mind, and speech. I always long for your offering. You have no preoccupation in enjoying anything other than offering everything to Me. Therefore I forcibly took everything away from you, and as a result you are poor.”