Verse 3.1.905

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.1.905:

হেন বুঝি করি’ প্রভু বক্রেশ্বর-ব্যাজ ধন্য করিলেন সর্ব রাঢের সমাজ ॥ ৯০৫ ॥

हेन बुझि करि’ प्रभु वक्रेश्वर-व्याज धन्य करिलेन सर्व राढेर समाज ॥ ९०५ ॥

hena bujhi kari’ prabhu vakreśvara-vyāja dhanya karilena sarva rāḍhera samāja || 905 ||

hena bujhi kari’ prabhu vakresvara-vyaja dhanya karilena sarva radhera samaja (905)

English translation:

(905) My understanding is that the Lord made the entire land of Rāḍha- deśa glorious on the pretext of going to Vakreśvara.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

With a desire to shower love of God on the Rāḍha-deśa residents’ barren hearts that were devoid of loving devotional service, Mahāprabhu employed the stratagem of wandering in Rāḍha-deśa. Since hard-hearted Māyāvādīs follow the conception of impersonalism, they can only make a show of being subordinate to Vakreśvara. Śrī Gaurasundara pretended to approve of the conceptions of such Māyāvādī sannyāsīs by enacting the pastime of going to Vakreśvara. Later He went to Jagannātha Purī and preached the philosophy of personalism, as described in Vedānta. Those Māyāvādīs who imagine that the Absolute Truth is impersonal can only pretend to worship Rudra, who is Lord Viṣṇu’s form for destroying this temporary material world. They are misdirected by the pretension of externally taking shelter of a personal form of the Absolute Truth while internally maintaining the desire for liberation. Mahāprabhu’s pretentious approval of the impersonal conception maintained by the hard-hearted residents of Rāḍha-deśa and His desire to abandon it should be seen only through devotional vision.