Verse 3.5.439

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.5.439:

সেহ ছার বলায ‘চৈতন্য-দাস’ নাম পাপী কেমনে যায অদ্বৈতের স্থান ॥ ৪৩৯ ॥

सेह छार बलाय ‘चैतन्य-दास’ नाम पापी केमने याय अद्वैतेर स्थान ॥ ४३९ ॥

seha chāra balāya ‘caitanya-dāsa’ nāma pāpī kemane yāya advaitera sthāna || 439 ||

seha chara balaya ‘caitanya-dasa’ nama papi kemane yaya advaitera sthana (439)

English translation:

(439) Some useless person like this may call himself Caitanya dāsa, but how can such a sinful person attain the shelter of Advaita?

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

One duplicitous devotee of Advaita Prabhu used to call himself Caitanya dāsa. His idea was that Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya was Rādhikā and Advaita was Kṛṣṇa. But actually Lord Caitanya is the combined form of Rādhā and Govinda, and Śrī Advaita Prabhu is a devotee of Lord Caitanya. This so- called servant of Lord Caitanya was actually averse to Lord Caitanya. Śrī Advaita Prabhu became fully empowered simply by the mercy of Lord Caitanya. Yet that ativāḍī, or overly proud person, who considered himself a devotee of Advaita did not realize this fact and thought that such a statement was an insult to Śrī Advaita. Anyone who considers this sinful person a follower of Advaita could not and can not understand the mentality of Advaita.