Verse 1.4.52

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 1.4.52:

यदृच्छया लब्धम् अपि विष्णोर् दाशरथेस् तु यः ।
नैच्छन् मोक्षं विना दास्यं तस्मै हनूमते नमः ॥ ५२ ॥

yadṛcchayā labdham api viṣṇor dāśarathes tu yaḥ |
naicchan mokṣaṃ vinā dāsyaṃ tasmai hanūmate namaḥ || 52 ||

I offer my praṇāma unto that Śrī Hanuman who prayed only for dāsyam, service to Śrī Rāma, the son of King Dāśaratha, and who spurned liberation, which he could have effortlessly obtained.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

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

After narrating the virtues of Hanumān, showing his glories in previous verses, he is now concluding his speech by the words yadṛcchayā and so on. In other words, what to speak of Śrī Hanumān accepting liberation as secondary (ānusaṅgika) to the attempt for service of the son of Dāśaratha, Śrī Rāmacandra, he never even desires it.

Liberation without servitorship is contrary to bhakti-rasa, the sweet mellow of devotion. Therefore, he desired only pure service. He never desired anything else. He did not desire freedom from birth and death. “Only let bhakti be present in me”—this was his prayer. Rather, liberation in the form of release from the material bondage is incidental to bhakti. In spite of his position, he rejected it and only prayed for pure dāsya. Therefore, we offer obeisances to that Śrī Hanumān repeatedly. This verse is under the Śrī Narayana-vyuha Stavaka.