Brihad Bhagavatamrita (commentary)
by Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyana Gosvāmī Mahārāja | 2005 | 440,179 words | ISBN-13: 9781935428329
The Brihad-bhagavatamrita Verse 1.2.53, 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 1.2.53 contained in Chapter 2—Divya (the celestial plane)—of Part one (prathama-khanda).
Verse 1.2.53
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 1.2.53:
तत् सत्यम् असि कृष्णस्य त्वम् एव नितरां प्रियः ।
अहो नूनं स एव त्वं लीला-नाना-वपुर्-धरः ॥ ५३ ॥tat satyam asi kṛṣṇasya tvam eva nitarāṃ priyaḥ |
aho nūnaṃ sa eva tvaṃ līlā-nānā-vapur-dharaḥ || 53 ||Surely you are the most beloved of Śrī Kṛṣṇa—oh, not only the most beloved, but truly that Mahāpuruṣa who assumes various bodies for pastimes.
Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda
(By Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī himself including a deep purport of that commentary)
You are truly the most beloved of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. What else can be said about the Mahāpuruṣa, or divine personality? Oh, if by argument someone says, “He is the thousand-headed Mahāpuruṣa who sleeps with so many existing forms, then I am still the four-headed Brahmā and different from Him,” that is, “you have assumed those various forms for performing pastimes.”