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- Read on →: pāyaṁ pāyaṁ vraja-jana-gaṇa-prema-vāpī-marāla
pāyaṁ pāyaṁ vraja-jana-gaṇa-prema-vāpī-marāla
śrīman-nāmāmṛtam avirataṁ gokulābdhy-utthitaṁ te |
tat-tad-veśācarita-nikarojjṛmbhitaṁ miṣṭa-miṣṭaṁ
sarvāṁl lokān jagati ramayan matta-ceṣṭo bhramāṇi ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.7.143)“[Śrī Nārada prays for a boon at Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s request:]
O you who are a swan in the waters
Of the prema of the people of Vraja!
Continuously drinking and drinking
The nectar of your blessed names,
Which have arisen from the ocean of Gokula,
Are manifested from the multitudes
Of those particular adornments and activities,
And are the sweet of the sweet,
May I become of maddened behavior and roam about
Delighting all people throughout the world.” - Read on →: sva-dānātṛpta vṛtto’ham idānīṁ saphala-śramaḥ
sva-dānātṛpta vṛtto’ham idānīṁ saphala-śramaḥ |
tvan-mahākaruṇā-pātra-jana-vijñānam āptavān ||
ayam eva varaḥ prāpto’nugrahaś cottamo mataḥ |
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.7.141–142)“[Śrī Nārada to Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa:]
O you who are unsatiated by your own giving
[Alt., O you who are unsatiated even by giving your own self]!
I have now become successful in my effort:
I have acquired in-depth knowledge
Of the recipients of your paramount grace.
This attained boon itself attained
Is accepted [by me] as [your] favor
And as most excellent.” - Read on →: pūrva-pūrvebhya uttarottarāḥ śreṣṭhā ity arthaḥ
pūrva-pūrvebhya uttarottarāḥ śreṣṭhā ity arthaḥ | evaṁ sarvataḥ śraiṣṭhyaṁ parama-bhagavatīṣu śrī-rādhādiṣu paryavasitaṁ jñeyam | tāratamye saty api sva-sva-rasa-jātīya-sukha-parama-kāṣṭhā-sampattyā sarveṣām eva teṣāṁ paripūrṇārthatā sidhyaty eva … |
(Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā on Bṛhad Bhāgavāmṛta: 1.7.138)“‘The latter are superior to the former’ is the meaning [i.e., among all the bhaktas mentioned earlier, starting from the brāhmaṇa at Prayāga, each of the bhakta mentioned later is superior to those mentioned earlier]. In this way, superiority to all is to be understood to be determined in the paramount bhagavatīs led by Śrī Rādhā [i.e., the gopīs of Vraja led by Śrī Rādhā, who are mentioned last in the discourse, are the foremost of all bhaktas of Śrī Bhagavān]. Even in the presence of this gradation [among all bhaktas], complete fulfillment indeed of all of them is verily established by means of [their] attainment of the apogee of the happiness belonging to their own respective rasas.”
- Read on →: kathañcana smāraṇam eva teṣām
kathañcana smāraṇam eva teṣām
avehi taj-jīvana-dānam eva |
teṣāṁ yato vismaraṇaṁ kadācit
prāṇādhikānāṁ maraṇāc ca nindyam ||
na sambhaved asmaraṇaṁ kadāpi
sva-jīvanānāṁ yad api priyāṇām |
tathāpi kenāpi viśeṣaṇena
smṛtiḥ praharṣāya yathā su-jīvitam ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.7.129–130)[Bhagavān to Nārada:] “Understand that somehow producing remembrance of them [i.e., those who are dear] is to give [those endowed with prema] life itself because any sort of forgetfulness of them who are more [dear] than one’s very life is more contemptible than dying [for those endowed with prema]. Although forgetting those who are as dear as one’s very life is never possible, still any sort of special remembrance [of them] is as great a joy as an abundant life.”