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- Read on →: aho golokīyair nikhila-bhuvana-vāsi-mahitaiḥ
aho golokīyair nikhila-bhuvana-vāsi-mahitaiḥ
sadā tais tair lokaiḥ samanubhavanīyasya mahataḥ |
padārthasyākhyātuṁ kati vivaraṇāni prabhur ahaṁ
tad āstaṁ tal-lokākhila-parikarebhyo mama namaḥ ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 2.6.380)“Aho!
How many descriptions can I articulate
Of that paramount object
Eternally experienceable in full
By those people of Goloka
[Who are] Honored by the residents of all the worlds?
Thus,
Let my obeisance be [offered]
Unto all the companions [of Śrī Kṛṣṇa] in that plane [of Goloka].” - Read on →: kadācid darśanaṁ vā syād vaikuṇṭhādi-nivāsinām
kadācid darśanaṁ vā syād vaikuṇṭhādi-nivāsinām |
śrī-kṛṣṇa-viraheṇārtān iva paśyāmi tān api ||
kadāpi teṣu vraja-vāsi-loka-
sādṛśya-bhāvānavalokanān me |
jātānutāpena bhavet tato’pi
prema-prakāśāt paramaṁ sukhaṁ tat ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 2.6.378–379)“Sometimes sight of the residents of Vaikuṇṭha and elsewhere [e.g., Ayodhyā] can occur. [When it does,] I see even them to be as though distressed by separation from Śrī Kṛṣṇa. As a result of a manifestation of prema [within me] because of the sorrow produced by sometimes not seeing the bhāva similar to the people residing in Vraja in them [i.e., in the residents of Vaikuṇṭha and elsewhere], I feel that paramount joy [which is experienced in the company of Śrī Kṛṣṇa in Goloka and Bhauma Vraja] to be [present] even there [i.e., in those residents of Vaikuṇṭha and elsewhere].”
- Read on →: evaṁ tatra ciraṁ tiṣṭhan martya-loka-sthitaṁ tv idam
evaṁ tatra ciraṁ tiṣṭhan martya-loka-sthitaṁ tv idam |
māthura-maṇḍalaṁ śrīmad apaśyaṁ khalu tādṛśam ||
tat-tac-chrī-gopa-gopībhis tābhir gobhiś ca tādṛśaiḥ |
paśu-pakṣi-kṛmi-kṣmābhṛt-sarit-tarv-ādibhir vṛtam ||
tathaivāvirataṁ śrīmat-kṛṣṇacandreṇa tena hi |
vistāryamāṇayā tādṛk-krīḍā-śreṇyāpi maṇḍitam ||
tat kadācid itas tatra kadāpi vidadhe sthitim |
bhedaṁ nopalabhe kañcit padayor adhunaitayoḥ ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 2.6.371–374)“In this way, after staying there [i.e., in Goloka] for a long time, I perceived this blessed district of Mathurā situated in the mortal world to indeed be such [i.e., to be just like Goloka], to be filled with those very blessed gopas and gopīs, those very cows, and similar animals, birds, insects, mountains, rivers, trees, and so forth, and to verily be likewise also adorned with series of similar sports being expanded never-endingly by him—blessed Kṛṣṇacandra. Thus, I dwell sometimes here [i.e., in Bhauma Vraja] and sometimes there [i.e., in Goloka]. Now I do not perceive a distinction between these two places at all.”