Verse 3.2.212

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.2.212:

এক বস্তু দুই ভাগ, ভক্তি বুঝৈতে গৌরচন্দ্র জানি সবে নিত্যানন্দ হৈতে ॥ ২১২ ॥

एक वस्तु दुइ भाग, भक्ति बुझैते गौरचन्द्र जानि सबे नित्यानन्द हैते ॥ २१२ ॥

eka vastu dui bhāga, bhakti bujhaite gauracandra jāni sabe nityānanda haite || 212 ||

eka vastu dui bhaga, bhakti bujhaite gauracandra jani sabe nityananda haite (212)

English translation:

(212) The one Lord has become two to teach devotional service. One can know Gauracandra only through Nityānanda.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Svayam-rūpa and svayam-prakāśa are one, just as each of the catur- vyūha, or quadruple expansions, are one. The most worshipable Śrī Gaurasundara is svayam-rūpa, and Śrī Nityānanda, the topmost devotee, is svayam-prakāśa. By following only the path of regulative principles, the worship of Gaurasundara is hindered. And also by transgressing Śrī Nityānanda, the service of Śrī Gaurasundara is hindered. Śrī Nityānanda assists in Śrī Gaurasundara’s preaching of ecstatic love of God in ten different forms. Only Śrī Nityānanda is able to reveal to the world the mystery of Śrī Caitanya’s acceptance of ekadaṇḍa and, in the position of being without daṇḍa, His acceptance of tridaṇḍa. The Śrīmad Bhāgavatam has prescribed for the devotees of Viṣṇu the process of accepting tridaṇḍa. Only the tridaṇḍīs are able to actually attain the stage of paramahaṃsa, whereas ekadaṇḍīs preaching the mundane concept of impersonalism cannot understand their own position. Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu alone is able to reveal many of the favorable items of spiritual consideration, like the characteristics and differences found in the ekadaṇḍa, which is a combination of jīva-daṇḍa with the tridaṇḍa of the Vedic sanātana-dharma, and how oneness can be the combination of many.