Verse 2.18.147

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.18.147:

ব্যপাদেশ মহাপ্রভু শিখায সবারে পাছে মোর শক্তি কোন জনে নিন্দা করে ॥ ১৪৭ ॥

व्यपादेश महाप्रभु शिखाय सबारे पाछे मोर शक्ति कोन जने निन्दा करे ॥ १४७ ॥

vyapādeśa mahāprabhu śikhāya sabāre pāche mora śakti kona jane nindā kare || 147 ||

vyapadesa mahaprabhu sikhaya sabare pache mora sakti kona jane ninda kare (147)

English translation:

(147) The Lord manifested this pastime to check everyone from criticizing His energies, or consorts.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

The Māyāvāda philosophy, which denies the potency of the Absolute Truth, is based on mundane conceptions. By accepting the potencies of Lord Viṣṇu as equal to the potencies of Rudra, the impersonalists reject the concept of potency. Persons who follow the philosophy of material variegatedness recognize the mother of all universes and living entities and the enchantress of Maheśa as the predominating deity of material happiness and distress and attribute faults on her. So that no one would blaspheme the internal potency by considering her nondifferent from the external potency, Śrī Gaurasundara enacted the pastimes of Rukmiṇī to reveal to all living entities that the energy and the energetic are nondifferent.