Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Antya 5.120

dui-ṭhāñi aparādhe pāibi durgati!

atattva-jña 'tattva' varṇe, tāra ei rīti!

SYNONYMS

dui-ṭhāñi — unto both; aparādhe — by offense; pāibi — you will get; durgati — hellish destination; a-tattva-jña — one who has no knowledge of the Absolute Truth; tattva varṇe — describes the Absolute Truth; tāra — his; ei — this; rīti — course.

TRANSLATION

Svarūpa Dāmodara continued, "Because you have committed an offense to Lord Jagannātha and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, you will attain a hellish destination. You do not know how to describe the Absolute Truth, but nevertheless you have tried to do so. Therefore you must be condemned.

PURPORT

The brāhmaṇa poet from Bengal was an offender in the estimation of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, for although the poet had no knowledge of the Absolute Truth, he had nevertheless tried to describe it. The Bengali poet was an offender to both Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Lord Jagannātha. Because he had made a distinction between Lord Jagannātha's body and His soul and because he had indicated that Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was different from Lord Jagannātha, he had committed offenses to Them both. A-tattva-jña refers to one who has no knowledge of the Absolute Truth or who worships his own body as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. If an ahańgrahopāsaka-māyāvādī, a person engaged in fruitive activities or a person interested only in sense gratification describes the Absolute Truth, he immediately becomes an offender.

<<< >>>

Copyright © The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness