गोपीनां महिमा कश्चित्तासामेकोऽपि शक्यते ।
न मया स्वमुखे कर्तुं मेरुर्मक्षिकया यथा ॥
gopīnāṁ mahimā kaścit tāsām eko’pi śakyate |
na mayā svamukhe kartuṁ merur makṣikayā yathā ||
(Bṛhad-Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.7.156)
“[Śrī Parīkṣit Mahārāja to his mother Uttarā:]
Even a little of the greatness of those gopīs
Is not able to be uttered by me with my own mouth,
Just as [even a little of the greatness] of [Mount] Meru
[Is not able to be swallowed] by a fly [with its own mouth].”
Commentary
Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmīpāda explains in his commentary that Śrī Parīkṣit Mahārāja makes this statement because he finds in himself an inability as a result of unfitness (mayā na śakyate ayogyatvenāśakteḥ) to narrate even a little (kaścit—svalpo’pi) of one of the gopīs’ aforesaid glories in a manner comparable to the inability of a fly to swallow with its own mouth even a little of the greatness of the greatest of mountains, Mount Sumeru (tatra dṛṣṭāntaḥ—Sumeruḥ parvata-śreṣṭho makṣikayā sva-mukhe kartuṁ grasituṁ yathā na śakyate tatheti).