Verse 2.19.207-208

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.19.207-208:

“মোর এই সত্য সবে শুন মন দিযাযে আমারে পূজে মোর সেবক লঙ্ঘিযা সে অধম জনে মোরে খণ্ড খণ্ড করে তার পূজা মোর গাযে অগ্নি-হেন পোডে ॥ ২০৭-২০৮ ॥

“मोर एइ सत्य सबे शुन मन दियाये आमारे पूजे मोर सेवक लङ्घिया से अधम जने मोरे खण्ड खण्ड करे तार पूजा मोर गाये अग्नि-हेन पोडे ॥ २०७-२०८ ॥

“mora ei satya sabe śuna mana diyāye āmāre pūje mora sevaka laṅghiyā se adhama jane more khaṇḍa khaṇḍa kare tāra pūjā mora gāye agni-hena poḍe || 207-208 ||

“mora ei satya sabe suna mana diyaye amare puje mora sevaka langhiya se adhama jane more khanda khanda kare tara puja mora gaye agni-hena pode (207-208)

English translation:

(207-208) “Everyone listen to My words. Any fallen soul who disrespects My servant and worships Me cuts Me into pieces. His worship feels like fire to My body.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

After hearing Advaita’s explanation of acintya-bhedābheda-tattva, Śrī Gaurasundara instructed all of His followers to discuss it with attention. Approving Advaita’s statement and establishing Himself as the object of worship, Gaurasundara said, “There is an inseparable relationship between the servant and the object of service. Therefore it is stated in the scriptures:

arcayitvā tu govindaṃ tadīyān nārcayet tu

yaḥna sa bhāgavato jñeyaḥ kevalaṃ dāmbhikaḥ smṛtaḥ

`One who worships Lord Govinda but fails to worship His devotees should be understood to be not a devotee of the Lord but simply a victim

of false pride.’ Considering the Absolute Truth as a product of matter amounts to cutting the body of the Supreme Lord to pieces. In the name of such religions based on envy various religious systems are created that distract people from the actual truth. I am Puruṣottama and I am the object of service. If I am disconnected from My devotees, if I am deprived of variegated pastimes, if I am placed in the prison of impersonalism, and if My limbs are separated from My self, the mockery of perfection in religiosity and useless flowery preaching found in this world by such worship and cultivation of religious principles are simply attempts at setting fire to My Puruṣottama body and burning Me.” The envy and violence of people devoid of devotional service to Viṣṇu are simply attempts at creating duality by attributing the Absolute Truth, Viṣṇu, with mundane abomination. Otherwise, disregarding the eternal variegated pastimes of the Lord by considering them comparable to material enjoyment simply denies complete enjoyment. Persons who are conversant with the philosophy of acintya-bhedābheda do not hesitate to point out the disparity in the twelve types of temporary mellows called rasas that are found in mundane relationships. Spiritual realization devoid of material conceptions amounts to inclination for the service of Viṣṇu.