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Brihad Bhagavatamrita (commentary)

by Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyana Gosvāmī Mahārāja | 2005 | 440,179 words | ISBN-13: 9781935428329

The Brihad-bhagavatamrita Verse 1.4.99, English translation, including commentary (Dig-darshini-tika): an important Vaishnava text dealing with the importance of devotional service. The Brihad-bhagavatamrita, although an indepent Sanskrit work, covers the essential teachings of the Shrimad Bhagavatam (Bhagavata-purana). This is verse 1.4.99 contained in Chapter 4—Bhakta (the devotee)—of Part one (prathama-khanda).

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 1.4.99:

आस्तां वानन्य-भावाना� दासाना� परमा गतिः �
प्रभोर� विचित्रा लीलै� प्रे�-भक्त�-विवर्धिनी � ९९ �

āstā� vānanya-bhāvānā� dāsānā� paramā gati� |
prabhor vicitrā līlaiva prema-bhakti-vivardhinī || 99 ||

It is necessary for us to go to the house of the ṇḍ. There is no need to discuss this matter further. Especially since such pastimes of 󲹲 are the ultimate shelter of servants who worship 󲹲 with one-pointed attention. They enhance their prema-bhakti.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

(By Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī himself including a deep purport of that commentary)

Would you not say it is the responsibility of one-pointed devotees to have 岹śԲ of their most worshipable 󲹲? To remove this doubt alone, though accepting this thought, he explains the reason for his not going in these six śǰ첹 beginning with (let it be so). It is my duty to visit the house of the ṇḍ, what more can be said about this matter? Especially, onepointed servants who have no other sentiment or desire than to have the 岹śԲ of 󲹲 and experience His variegated pastimes, for these variegated pastimes of 󲹲 are the topmost shelter. Here the import of gati means a shelter in all types of calamities. It is not that these pastimes are only the topmost shelter (parama gati). However, these pastimes increase the loving devotion (prema-bhakti) of His servants, namely, such pastimes enhance their devotional service.

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