Text 26] Ramacandra Puri Criticizes the Lord 95

TEXT 26

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CAS Brace Sata ‘aia’ Gfae n ew t

ei ye $ri-madhavendra Sri-pada upeksa karila
sei aparadhe inhara ‘vasana’ janmila

SYNONYMS

ei—this; ye—that; sri-madhavendra sri-pada—His Lordship Madhavendra Puri;
upeksd karila—neglected or denounced; sei aparadhe—because of the offense;
inhadra—of Ramacandra Puri; vasand—material desire; janmila—arose.

TRANSLATION

Ramacandra Puri was thus denounced by Madhavendra Puri. Due to his
offense, gradually material desire appeared within him.

PURPORT

The word vdsand (“material desires”) refers to dry speculative knowledge. Such
speculative knowledge is only material. As confirmed in Srimad-Bhagavatam
(10.14.4), a person without devotional service who simply wants to know things
(kevala-bodha-labdhaye) gains only dry speculative knowledge but no spiritual
profit. This is also confirmed in the Bhakti-sandarbha (111), wherein it is said:

jivan-mukta api punar
yanti samsdra-vasanam

yady acintya-maha-saktau
bhagavaty aparadhinah

“Even though one is liberated in this life, if one offends the Supreme Personality of
Godhead he falls down in the midst of material desires, of which dry speculation
about spiritual realization is one.”

In his Laghu-tosani commentary on Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.2.32), Jiva Gosvami
says;

jivan-mukta api punar
bandhanarn yanti karmabhih

yady acintya-mahd-saktau
bhagavaty aparadhinah
