तां नारदीयामनुसृत्य शिक्षां
श्रीकृष्णनामानि निजप्रियाणि ।
सङ्कीर्तयन्सुस्वरमत्र लीला-
स्तस्य प्रगायन्ननुचिन्तयंश्च ॥
तादीयलीलास्थलजातमेत-
द्विलोकयन्भावदशे गतो ये ।
तयोः स्वचित्ते करणेन लज्जे
कथं परस्मिन्न्कथयान्यहं ते ॥
सदा महार्त्या करुणास्वरै रुद-
न्नयामि रात्रीर्दिवसांश्च कातरः ।
न वेद्मि यद्यत्सुचिरादनुष्ठितं
सुखाय वा तत्तदुतार्तिसिन्धवे ॥
tāṁ nāradīyām anusṛtya śikṣāṁ
śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmāni nija-priyāṇi |
saṅkīrtayan susvaram atra līlās
tasya pragāyann anucintayaṁś ca ||
tādīya-līlā-sthala-jātam etad
vilokayan bhāva-daśe gato ye |
tayoḥ sva-citte karaṇena lajje
kathaṁ parasminn kathayāny ahaṁ te ||
sadā mahārtyā karuṇā-svarai rudan
nayāmi rātrīr divasāṁś ca kātaraḥ |
na vedmi yad yat sucirād anuṣṭhitaṁ
sukhāya vā tat tad utārti-sindhave ||
(Bṛhad Bhāgavatāmṛta: 2.6.1–3)
“Following that instruction of Nārada, here [in Vraja] melodiously chanting names of Śrī Kṛṣṇa dear to myself, singing aloud of and meditating upon his līlās, and beholding the sites of his līlās, this bhāva and state which arose [in me]—I feel embarrassed [just] by thinking of them in my own heart. [So,] How can I describe them to someone else? Crying continuously in pitiful tones out of great distress (ārti), I spent nights and days disconcerted. I did not know whether all that I had practiced for so long would lead to joy or an ocean of distress.”