Text 71] Expansions of Advaita Acarya 39
TRANSLATION
A person without Krsna consciousness is no better than dry wood or a dead body.
He is understood to be dead while living, and after death he is punishable by
Yamaraja.
PURPORT
In the Srimad-Bhdgavatam, Sixth Canto, Third Chapter, twenty-ninth verse,
Yamaraja, the superintendent of death, tells his assistants what class of men they
should bring before him. There he states, ‘‘A person whose tongue never describes
the qualities and holy name of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose heart
never throbs as he remembers Krsna and His lotus feet, and whose head never bows
in obeisances to the Supreme Lord, must be brought before me for punishment.”
In other words, nondevotees are brought before Yamaraja for punishment, and
thus material nature awards them various types of bodies. After death, which
is dehantara, a change of body, nondevotees are brought before Yamaraja for
justice. By the judgment of Yamaraja, material nature gives them bodies suitable
for the resultant actions of their past activities. This is the process of dehantara, or
transmigration of the self from one body to another. Krsna conscious devotees,
however, are not subject to be judged by Yamaraja. For devotees there is an open
road, as confirmed in Bhagavad-gitd. After giving up the body (tyaktva deham), a
devotee never again has to accept another material body, for in a spiritual body he
goes back home, back to Godhead. The punishments of Yamaraja are meant for
persons who are not Krsna conscious.
TEXT 71
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Coeafage cae HSS HTS N99 UI
kevala e gana-prati nahe ei danda
caitanya-vimukha yei sei ta’ pasanda
SYNONYMS
kevala—only; e—this; gaya—group; prati—unto them; nahe—it is not; e/—this;
danda—punishment; caitanya-vimukha— against Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; ye/—any;
one; se/—he; ta’—but; pasanda—atheist.
TRANSLATION
Not only the misguided descendants of Advaita Acarya but anyone who is
against the cult of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu should be considered an atheist subject
to be punished by Yamaraja.
