छलं च न लभे किञ्चिद्येनाद्यं परिपालयन् ।
निबन्धं स्वकृतं भ्रातरानयाम्यात्मनः पदम् ॥
तत्ते मय्यकृपां वीक्ष्य व्यग्रोऽनुग्रहकातरः ।
अनादिं सेतुमुल्लङ्घ्य त्वज्जन्मेदमकारयम् ॥
श्रीमद्गोवर्धने तस्मिन्निजप्रियतमास्पदे ।
स्वयमेवाभवं तात जयन्ताख्यः स ते गुरुः ॥
chalaṁ ca na labhe kiñcid yenādyaṁ paripālayan |
nibandhaṁ sva-kṛtaṁ bhrātar ānayāmy ātmanaḥ padam ||
tat te mayy akṛpāṁ vīkṣya vyagro’nugraha-kātaraḥ |
anādiṁ setum ullaṅghya tvaj-janmedam akārayam ||
śrīmad-govardhane tasmin nija-priyatamāspade |
svayam evābhavaṁ tāta jayantākhyaḥ sa te guruḥ ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 2.4.84–86)
“[Śrī Vaikuṇṭhanātha Bhagavān to Gopa Kumāra:] Following in full the primordial rule established by myself, I did not find any pretext on which I could bring you to my own abode. Thus, seeing your ungraciousness towards me, feeling anxious, and being overcome with compassion, I transgressed my beginningless law and caused this birth of yours there in that dearmost abode of my own, blessed Govardhana. My dear boy, I myself specifically became your guru, he whose name is Jayanta.”
Commentary
saṅketa-parihāsādi-kṛtena man-nāma-kīrtanādinā kenāpi prakāreṇa kadāpi mayā saha bhavataḥ sambandho mā bhūt yena sva-kṛta-setum apy atikramyājāmilādivad ākṛṣyānayāmīti bhāvaḥ | anyathānaucitya-prasaṅgenānarthāpatter iti dik | … ato bhagavat-kṛpayaiva bhagavat-prāptir iti jñeyam |
(Excerpt from the Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā)
“A relationship of yours with me did not come about at any time by any means by way of pronunciation or otherwise of my name done as a designation, joke, or otherwise by which I could [justifiably] overstep even the law created by myself, draw [you towards me], and bring you [here to me] as [I did] with Ajāmila and others. This is the purport because of an occurrence of ill as a result of an incidence of impropriety otherwise. This is the direction. … Thus, it is to be understood that attainment of Bhagavān occurs only by the grace of Bhagavān.”