आददानस्तृणं दन्तैरिदं याचे पुनः पुनः ।
श्रीमद्रूपपदाम्भोजरजोऽहं स्यां भवे भवे ॥
ādadānas tṛṇaṁ dantair idam yāce punaḥ punaḥ |
śrīmad-rūpa-padāmbhoja-rajo’haṁ syāṁ bhave bhave ||
(Dāna-keli-cintāmaṇi: 175)
“Taking a blade of grass between my teeth, I pray for this again and again, ‘May I be a speck of dust at the lotus feet of Śrīmad Rūpa birth after birth.‘”
Commentary
vividha-rasa-siddhānta-sāgaraṁ pradarśya niṣpratyūha-rasa-niṣpattau tathā rasa-rāji supariveṣāne cādvitīyāḥ śrīmad-rūpa-gosvāmī-pādāḥ khalu gauḍīya-vaiṣṇava-mātrāṇām eva jīvātavaḥ | kim uta teṣāṁ tac-caraṇāravindaika-śaraṇānāṁ śrī-dāsa-gosvāmi-mahānubhāvānām iti jñeyam |
(Hari Dāsa Dāsa’s Tātparya-vyākhya)
“Having revealed an ocean of various conclusions (siddhāntas) regarding rasa, the feet of Śrīmad Rūpa Gosvāmī, which are second to none in the production of unimpeded rasa and in excellently presenting lines of rasa, are to be known to be the very life of all Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas, and all the more [that] of the noble-minded Śrī Dāsa Gosvāmī, whose sole shelter is his [i.e., Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī’s] lotus feet.”