17.52
srivase karaili tui bhavani-pujana
koti janma habe tora raurave patana
SYNONYMS
srivase—unto Srivasa Thakura; karaili—you have caused to do; tui—you; bhavani-pujana—worshiping the goddess Bhavani; koti janma—for ten million births; habe—there will be; tora—your; raurave—in hell; patana—fall down "You have made Srivasa Thakura appear to have been worshiping the goddess Bhavani.
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 Bhavani in a crematorium, wishing to eat meat and drink wine.
Such fools also consider this bhavani-puja as good as worship of Lord Krsna in devotional service.
Such abominable tantric activities performed by so-called svamis and yogis are herein condemned, however, by Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
He declares that such bhavani-puja 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 the Bhagavad-gita (4.11) the Lord says, ye yatha mam prapadyante tams tathaiva bhajamy aham: “I reward everyone according to his surrender unto Me.” Mayavadis 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 prasada.
Mayavadi philosophers, being educated in paltry knowledge, think all sorts of Brahman realization one and the same and do not consider varieties.
But although Krsna 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, Krsna consciousness, he is punishable.
All people except Krsna conscious devotees are to some proportion pasandis, or demons, and thus they are punishable by the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, as stated below.