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can never satisfy Caitanya Mahāprabhu unless and until he sincerely regrets his offense and thus rectifies it.
TEXT 52
শ্রীবাসে করাইলি ভুই ভবানী-পুজন । কোটি জন্ম হবে তোর রোরবে পতন ॥ ৫২ ॥
śrīvāse karāili tui bhavānī-pūjana koṭi janma habe tora raurave patana
SYNONYMS
śrīvāse —unto Śrīvāsa Thākura;  karāili —you have caused to do;  tui —you;  bhavānī-pūjana —worshiping the goddess Bhavānī;  koṭi janma —for ten million births;  habe —there will be;  tora —your;  raurave —in hell;  patana —fall down.
TRANSLATION
“You have made Śrīvāsa Thākura appear to have been worshiping the goddess Bhavānī. Simply for this offense, you will have to fall down into hellish life for ten million births.
PURPORT
There are many tantric followers who practice the black art of worshiping the goddess Bhavānī in a crematorium, wishing to eat meat and drink wine. Such fools also consider this  bhavānī-pūjā  as good as worship of Lord Kṛṣṇa in devotional service. Such abominable tantric activities as performed by so-called  svāmīs  and  yogīs  are herein condemned, however, by Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He declares that such  bhavānī-pūjā  for drinking wine and eating meat quickly plunges one into hellish life. The method of worship itself is already hellish, and its results must also be hellish and nothing more.
Many rascals say that whatever way one accepts, one will ultimately reach Brahman. Yet we can see from this verse how such persons reach Brahman. Brahman spreads everywhere, but appreciation of Brahman in different objects leads to different results. In  Bhagavad-gitā  the Lord says,  ye yathā māṁ prapadyante tāṁ tathaiva bhajāmy aham : “I reward everyone according to his surrender unto Me.” (Bg. 4.11) Māyāvādīs certainly realize Brahman in certain aspects, but realization of Brahman in the aspects of wine, women and meat is not the same realization of Brahman that devotees achieve by chanting, dancing and eating  prasāda . Māyāvādī philosophers, being educated in paltry knowledge, think all sorts of Brahman realization one and the same and do not consider varieties. But although Kṛṣṇa is everywhere, by His inconceivable potency He is simultaneously not everywhere. Thus the Brahman realization of the tantric cult is not the same Brahman realization as that of pure devotees. Unless one reaches the highest point of Brahman realization,