Text 115] The Lord's Visit to Sri Vendavana 189

TEXT 115

CAR AG Be, — Fe Hag ST Ty |
AVS HAG?’ SA, OY SICA VA | se

yei madha kahe, —jiva isvara haya ‘sama’
seita ‘pasandi’ haya, dande tare yama

SYNONYMS
yei mddha—any foolish person who; kahe—says; jiva—the living entity;
isvara—the supreme controller; haya—are; sama—equal; seita—he; pdsandi
haya—is a first-class atheist; dande—punishes; tare—him; yama—the superin-
tendent of death, Yamardja.

TRANSLATION

“A foolish person who says that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the
same as the living entity is an atheist, and he becomes subject to punishment
by the superintendent of death, Yamaraja.

PURPORT

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura says that the word pasandi refers to one
who considers the living entity under the control of the illusory energy to be
equal with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is transcendental to all ma-
terial qualities. Another kind of pasandi is one who does not believe in the spirit
soul, the superior potency of the Lord, and therefore does not distinguish be-
tween spirit and matter. While describing one of the offenses against chanting the
holy names, an offense called sruti-sastra-nindana (blaspheming the Vedic
literature), Jiva Gosvami states in his Bhakti-sandarbha: yatha pasanda-margena
dattatreyarsabha-devopasakanam pasandinam. Worshipers of impersonalists like
Dattatreya are also pasandis. Concerning the offense of aharn-mama-buddhi, or
dehatma-buddhi (considering the body to be the self), Jiva Gosvami states: deva-
dravinadi-nimittaka-’pasanda’-sabdena ca dasdparadhad eva laksyante, pasan-
damayatvat tesam. “Those who are overly absorbed in the conception of the
body and the bodily necessities are also called pasandis.” Elsewhere in Bhakti-san-
darbha it is stated:

uddisya devata eva
juhoti ca dadati ca

sa pasanditi vijfieyah
svatantro vapi karmasu

“A pasandi is one who considers the demigods and the Supreme Personality of
Godhead to be one; therefore a pasandi worships any kind of demigod as the
