Verse 2.21.18

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.21.18:

মুঞি, মোর দাস, আর গ্রন্থ-ভাগবতে যার ভেদ আছে, তার নাশ ভাল-মতে” ॥ ১৮ ॥

मुञि, मोर दास, आर ग्रन्थ-भागवते यार भेद आछे, तार नाश भाल-मते” ॥ १८ ॥

muñi, mora dāsa, āra grantha-bhāgavate yāra bheda āche, tāra nāśa bhāla-mate” || 18 ||

muni, mora dasa, ara grantha-bhagavate yara bheda ache, tara nasa bhala-mate” (18)

English translation:

(18) “Anyone who discriminates between Me, My servant, and the book

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Bhāgavatam is certainly destroyed.”

Those who do not understand the science of Viṣṇu and the Vaiṣṇavas and who discriminate between the Supreme Lord and the devotees certainly invite their own inauspiciousness. Unless one enters into the pastimes of the Supreme Lord, he cannot properly describe topics of the Supreme Lord. Śukadeva Gosvāmī certainly knows Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, which is full of topics regarding the Supreme Lord. It is reported that Mahādeva once said, “I know Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, Śukadeva knows Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, and the author, Śrī Vyāsadeva, because of insufficient pure service to his spiritual master after taking shelter of his spiritual master

compiled many scriptures for the benefit of those aspiring for religiosity, economic development, sense gratification, and liberation.” But while writing Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, which is the only purport of all Vaiṣṇava scriptures, he described the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa with a mentality based on condemnation of religiosity, economic development, sense gratification, and liberation. Yet by not giving prominence to topics concerning Śrī Vārṣabhānavī-devī and by displaying caution in his narration because of ordinary people’s disqualifications, he portrayed himself as understanding some things and not understanding others. But since Tridaṇḍi SvāmīŚrīdhara, a worshiper of Śrī Nṛsiṃha, was, by the mercy of the Lord, inclined towards the service of the Lord, he properly understood the purport of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam and the service of Gopī- jana-vallabha. By the influence of chanting the Lord’s names, Śrīdhara, the protector of devotional service, and his brother Lakṣmīdhara displayed a qualification for understanding the names, forms, qualities, pastimes, and associates of the Lord. Since those readers of Śrīdhara’s commentary who are opposed to Śrīdhara and desirous of material enjoyment or liberation are nondevotees, they are perpetually cheated from such mercy. Although in the activities of the kaniṣṭha-adhikārīs there is some introductory understanding of the Supreme Lord, if such kaniṣṭha-adhikārīs disregard a devotee, they will fall from even that platform. Therefore those who have invited inauspiciousness by attributing differences between the Lord’s associates and the Lord’s qualities or the Lord and His devotees do not know loving devotional service as the ultimate goal of life. So in spite of receiving the human form of life, they are simply committing suicide.