te’pi tan-mukhataḥ sarvaṁ śrutvā tat-tan-mahādbhutam |
sāra-saṅgrāhiṇo’śeṣam anyat sarvaṁ jahur dṛḍham ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.7.152)
“Being full graspers of the essence
After hearing from his mouth
All of those various profound wonders,
They too resolutely and completely
Gave up everything else.”
kevalaṁ paramaṁ dainyam avalambyāsya śikṣayā |
śrīman-madana-gopāla-caraṇābjam upāsata ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.7.153)
“Taking to profound humility exclusively
In accord with his teaching,
They worshiped the lotus feet
Of Śrīman Madana Gopāla.”
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.”
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.”
icchet punas tādṛśam eva bhāvaṁ
kliṣṭaṁ kathañcit tad-abhāvataḥ syāt |
yeṣāṁ na bhātīti mate’pi teṣāṁ
gāḍhopakārī smṛti-daḥ priyāṇām ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.7.128)
“[Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa to Śrī Nārada:]
It shall wish for a bhāva of that very type again,
And because of the absence of that [bhāva] somehow,
It shall become afflicted.
Even in the view of those for whom this [aforesaid explanation] does not shine [i.e., to whom it does not appeal],
A giver of remembrance of dear ones is highly supportive.”
prāg yady api prema-kṛtāṁ priyāṇāṁ
viccheda-dāvānala-vegato’ntaḥ |
santāpa-jātena duranta-śokā-
veśena gāḍhaṁ bhavatīva duḥkham ||
tathāpi sambhoga-sukhād api stutaḥ
sa ko’py anirvācyatamo mano-ramaḥ |
pramoda-rāśiḥ pariṇāmato dhruvaṁ
tatra sphuret tad-rasikaika-vedyaḥ ||
tac-choka-duḥkhoparamasya paścāc
cittaṁ yataḥ pūrṇatayā prasannam |
samprāpta-sambhoga-mahāsukhena
sampannavat tiṣṭhati sarvadaiva ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.7.125–127)
“[Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa to Śrī Nārada:]
Although at first intense suffering—
Arising from absorption in endless grief
Produced by anguish within
As a result of an onslaught, created by prema,
Of the forest fire of separation
From those who are dear—
As though occurs,
Still in that ultimately
Some most ineffable and heart-satisfying
Abundance of delight,
Praised even more so than the happiness of enjoyment together (sambhoga),
And knowable only by a relisher of rasa,
Shall certainly manifest
Since after the cessation of the grief and suffering of that [i.e., of separation]
The heart becomes indeed ever satisfied
And dwells with completeness
As though endowed with the great happiness
Of fully attained enjoyment together (sambhoga).”
dṛṣṭe’pi śāmyen mayi tan na duḥkhaṁ
viccheda-cintākulitātmanāṁ vai |
harṣāya teṣāṁ kriyate vidhir yo
duḥkhaṁ sa sadyo dviguṇīkaroti ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.7.96)
“Even if I am seen [by them at last],
That suffering shall not cease
For they whose hearts are indeed overwhelmed
By unrest because of separation [from me].
The means which are enacted [by me]
For the sake of their elation
Immediately double their suffering.”
rūpeṇa veṣeṇa ravāmṛtena
vaṁśyāś ca pūrvānuditena viśvam |
sammohitaṁ prema-bhareṇa kṛtsnaṁ
tiṣṭhantu dūre vraja-vāsinas te ||
ākāśa-yānā vidhi-rudra-śakrāḥ
siddhāḥ śaśī deva-gaṇās tathānye |
gāvo vṛṣā vatsa-gaṇā mṛgāś ca
vṛkṣāḥ khagā gulma-latās tṛṇāni ||
nadyo’tha meghāḥ sacarāḥ sthirāś ca
sacetanācetanakāḥ prapañcāḥ |
prema-pravāhottha-vikāra-ruddhāḥ
sva-sva-svabhāvāt parivṛttim āpuḥ ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.7.110–112)
“By means of my previously unmanifested
Figure, garb, and nectar—the sound of my flute,
The entire world became completely stupefied
By a profusion of prema.
Let those residents of Vraja remain aside.
Vidhi, Rudra, Śakra,
The siddhas, Śaśī, the devas,
And others moving in the sky,
The cows, the bulls, the calves, and the animals,
The trees, the birds, the shrubs, the creepers, and the grass,
The rivers and the clouds,
The mobile and the stationary,
And the sentient and the non-sentient entities
[All] Became seized by transformations
Springing forth from a stream of prema
And underwent a reversal
From their own respective natures.”
citrāticitrai rucirair vihārair
ānanda-pāthodhi-taraṅga-magnaḥ |
nājñāsiṣaṁ rātri-dināni tāni
tat-tan-mahāmohana-loka-saṅgāt ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.7.107)
“Submerged in the waves of an ocean of bliss
By the most wonderful of wonderful,
Relishable sports,
I did not notice those nights and days [pass]
Because of the company of those most enchanting people.”
yadi ca prītaye teṣāṁ tatra yāmi vasāmi ca |
tathāpi kim api svāsthyaṁ bhāvyaṁ nālocayāmy aham ||
mad-īkṣaṇād eva vigāḍha-bhāvo-
dayena labdhā vikalā vimoham |
na daihikaṁ kiñcana te na dehaṁ
vidur na cātmānam aho kim anyat ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.7.94–95)
“And if I go and reside there
For their pleasure,
I still do not consider
That their well-being will occur at all.
Becoming overwhelmed
And seized by intense stupor
Because of the arising of very deep bhāva
Just by the sight of me,
They know neither the bodily,
Nor the body,
Nor even themselves whatsoever.
Aho!
What [to speak] of anything else?”
