Verse 2.20.38

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.20.38:

পুণ্য পবিত্রতা পায যে অঙ্গ পরশে তাহা মিথ্যা বলে বেটা কেমন সাহসে ॥ ৩৮ ॥

पुण्य पवित्रता पाय ये अङ्ग परशे ताहा मिथ्या बले बेटा केमन साहसे ॥ ३८ ॥

puṇya pavitratā pāya ye aṅga paraśe tāhā mithyā bale beṭā kemana sāhase || 38 ||

punya pavitrata paya ye anga parase taha mithya bale beta kemana sahase (38)

English translation:

(38) “Even the pious become purified by the touch of this form, so how does that fellow dare to claim My body is false?

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Since the Māyāvādīs claim that the material world is false and therefore consider piety, purity, and the mode of goodness as sinful, impure, and a

mixture of goodness, passion, and ignorance, the flow of their imagination is unable to ascertain the Absolute Truth. But the omnipotent Supreme Personality of Godhead is the only basis of all existence. Those who cannot understand that the Supreme Lord is eternally aloof from any difference between His body and self claim that the material world is false and fall from the truth by attributing a difference between the Lord’s body and self. Only people who are most impudent have the audacity to declare that the eternal, spiritual, blissful form of the Lord is false.