Brihad Bhagavatamrita (commentary)
by Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyana Gosvāmī Mahārāja | 2005 | 440,179 words | ISBN-13: 9781935428329
The Brihad-bhagavatamrita Verse 1.2.49, 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 1.2.49 contained in Chapter 2—Divya (the celestial plane)—of Part one (prathama-khanda).
Verse 1.2.49
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 1.2.49:
यस्य लोकश् च निश्छिद्रः स्व-धर्माचार-निष्ठया ।
मदादिरहितैः सद्भिर् लभ्यते शत-जन्मभिः ॥ ४९ ॥yasya lokaś ca niśchidraḥ sva-dharmācāra-niṣṭhayā |
madādirahitaiḥ sadbhir labhyate śata-janmabhiḥ || 49 ||Only saintly persons who are completely faultless, free from arrogance, pride and envy, and who are able to follow actual religion with proper religious practices for one hundred births, can attain your planet.
Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda
(By Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī himself including a deep purport of that commentary)
“Ah, what to speak of your glories, the glories of the residents of your planet are also wonderful.” This is the intention within the four verses beginning with yasya and so on. “Having practiced one’s own prescribed duties (sva-dharma) for one hundred births free from faults, one then achieves your planet.” The word ādi refers to sādhus or actual saints who are free from pride (dambha), greed (lobha) and other suchlike defects, not to anyone else. Śrī Rudra also says (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam or Bhāgavata Purāṇa 4.24.29), sva-dharma-niṣṭhaḥ śata-janmabhiḥ pumān, viriñcatām eti: “A person who engages in his prescribed duties faith fully for one hundred births achieves the post of Viriñca or Śrī Brahmā.”