Verse 2.28.128

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.28.128:

তুমি সে জগদ্-গুরু জানিল নিশ্চয তোমার গুরুর যোগ্য কেহ কভু নয ॥ ১২৮ ॥

तुमि से जगद्-गुरु जानिल निश्चय तोमार गुरुर योग्य केह कभु नय ॥ १२८ ॥

tumi se jagad-guru jānila niścaya tomāra gurura yogya keha kabhu naya || 128 ||

tumi se jagad-guru janila niscaya tomara gurura yogya keha kabhu naya (128)

English translation:

(128) “I have clearly understood that You are the spiritual master of the entire world, therefore no one is qualified to become Your guru.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

The spiritual master with a number of disciples and the spiritual master with one disciple both accept disciples after carefully testing their respective qualifications and completely rejecting fallen souls like us.

But one who sees the Supreme Lord within all living entities and who therefore considers himself the disciple of everyone can become jagad- guru, the spiritual master of the entire world. Śrī Gaurasundara’s bhajana-pranālī, or method of worship, includes constantly worshiping Kṛṣṇa while becoming more humble than the straw in the street, more tolerant than a tree, devoid of all sense of false prestige, and ready to offer all respect to others. Since He taught such internally and externally nonduplicitous worship, He is certainly the all-worshipable Vrajendra- nandana and the actual jagad-guru. Those who are servants of Śrī Caitanya are also jagad-gurus, because one of them has even accepted a most fallen atheistic person like me as his servant and given me the opportunity to serve him, and I am not outside of this world. Unless one possesses actual humility befitting a Vaiṣṇava, one can never act as a guru. Keśava Bhāratī was decorated with qualities befitting a Vaiṣṇava.