Verse 2.19.205

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.19.205:

বেদ, বিপ্র, যজ্ঞ, ধর্ম—সর্ব-মূল তুমি যে তোমা’ না ভজে, তা’র পূজ্য নহি আমি” ॥ ২০৫ ॥

वेद, विप्र, यज्ञ, धर्म—सर्व-मूल तुमि ये तोमा’ ना भजे, ता’र पूज्य नहि आमि” ॥ २०५ ॥

veda, vipra, yajña, dharma—sarva-mūla tumi ye tomā’ nā bhaje, tā’ra pūjya nahi āmi” || 205 ||

veda, vipra, yajna, dharma—sarva-mula tumi ye toma’ na bhaje, ta’ra pujya nahi ami” (205)

English translation:

(205) “You are the root of the Vedas, brāhmaṇas, sacrifice, and religious principles. I do not accept the worship of one who does not worship You.”

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

If Advaita Prabhu is approached and offered worship by those who have no taste for the rarely achieved kṛṣṇa-prema taught by Śrī Caitanyadeva, or by those who could not fully surrender themselves at the feet of Śrī Caitanya, the bestower of kṛṣṇa-prema, Advaita will never accept their worship. A few ignorant people deceived by the portion of the Vedas known as karma-kāṇḍa have introduced ritualistic sacrificial performances. If because of not understanding the actual purport of the Vedas they become bereft of Lord Caitanya’s service, their external conceptions will make them more or less rivals with the Buddhists, engage them in battle with the demons, encourage them to praise their respective performances of sacrifice, and induce them to forget the Supreme Lord. People under the influence of the three modes of material nature in their respective states full of anarthas, or unwanted things, who do not accept the Vaiṣṇava conclusions found in the manifested and unmanifested worlds as the goal of life falsely think of themselves as the doer of activities. “Yet You are the original source and shelter of all objects and the cause of external conceptions of all temporary objects. I will never consider materialistic people predominately engaged with pride in activities that are neglectful of You as my own, because they are offenders at the feet of Viṣṇu and the Vaiṣṇavas.” Gaurasundara became pleased as He heard Advaita Prabhu’s irrefutable glorification of the Absolute Truth, and when He heard Advaita Prabhu explain the purport of the Absolute Truth described in the verse vadanti tat tattva-vidaḥ [vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattvaṃ yaj jñānam advayam, brahmeti paramātmeti bhagavān iti śabdyate, “Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth call this nondual substance Brahman, Paramātmā or Bhagavān.” (Bhāg. 1.2.11)], Śrī Caitanyadeva regarded Mahā-Viṣṇu Advaita Prabhu as the ācārya of acintya-bhedābheda-tattva,

which establishes that everything is simultaneously one with and different from the Personality of Godhead.