Verse Text
yathā bilvamaṅgaloktiḥ –
advaita-vīthī-pathikair upāsyāḥ
svānanda-siṁhāsana-labdha-dīkṣāḥ |
śaṭhena kenāpi vayaṁ haṭhena
dāsī-kṛtā gopa-vadhū-viṭena ||44||
Translation
In the words of Bilvamaṅgala: Though I was respected by the followers of jṣāna and was worshipped by them on the throne of realizing the bliss of brahman, forcibly I was made into a female servant (dāsī) by the crafty boyfriend of the cowherd women.
Purport (Jiva Goswami)
Advaita means jṣāna. Svānanda-siṁhāsana-labdha-dīkṣāḥ means he was worshipped (dīkṣāḥ) on the throne of realizing the bliss of ātmā (svānanda). The condemnation of Kṛṣṇa as a crafty boy is false condemnation, conveying the opposite meaning, because in reality the speaker now considers the worship, shaved head and impersonal realization to be meaningless.
Purport (Nectar of Devotion)
Bilvamaṅgala Ṭhākura, in his book Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta, says, “Let the impersonalists be engaged in the process of transcendental realization by worshiping the impersonal Brahman. Although I was also initiated into that path of Brahman realization, I have now become misled by a naughty boy—one who is very cunning, who is very much attached to the gopīs and who has made me His maidservant. So I have now forgotten the process of Brahman realization.”
Bilvamaṅgala Ṭhākura was first spiritually initiated for impersonal realization of the Absolute Truth, but later on, by his association with Kṛṣṇa in Vṛndāvana, he became an experienced devotee.