तेऽपि तन्मुखतः सर्वं श्रुत्वा तत्तन्महाद्भुतम् ।
सारसङ्ग्राहिणोऽशेषमन्यत्सर्वं जहुर्दृढम् ॥
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.”
Commentary
te munayo’pi tasya nāradasya mukhataḥ tat tan nāradānubhūtaṁ sarvaṁ śrutvā, anyat jñāna-karmādikaṁ sarvaṁ sadyas tat-kṣaṇa eva jahuḥ | kutaḥ? sāraṁ tattvam upādeyāṁśaṁ va samyag grahītuṁ śīlam eṣām iti tathā te |
(Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā)
“After hearing from his—Nārada’s—mouth all of those various [profound wonders] experienced by Nārada, they too, the sages [assembled in Prayāga], gave up everything else—jñana, karma, and so on—indeed immediately—at that very moment. Why? There were [‘full graspers of the essence’ (sāra-saṅgrāhiṇaḥ), meaning,] they whose disposition was to grasp in full the essence (sāra), that is, the quiddity, or, the acceptable [alt., excellent] part [of the teaching].”