CC Antya 5.120 (1975)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 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 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 ahaṅgrahopāsaka-māyāvādī, a person engaged in fruitive activities or a person interested only in sense gratification, describes the Absolute Truth, he immediately becomes an offender.