Brihad Bhagavatamrita (commentary)
by Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyana Gosvāmī Mahārāja | 2005 | 440,179 words | ISBN-13: 9781935428329
The Brihad-bhagavatamrita Verse 1.6.40, 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 1.6.40 contained in Chapter 6—Priyatama (the most beloved devotees)—of Part one (prathama-khanda).
Verse 1.6.40
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 1.6.40:
स्वभाव-सौहृदेनैव यत् किञ्चित् सर्वम् आत्मनः ।
अस्योपकल्पयन्ते स्म नन्द-सूनोः सुखाय तत् ॥ ४० ॥svabhāva-sauhṛdenaiva yat kiñcit sarvam ātmanaḥ |
asyopakalpayante sma nanda-sūnoḥ sukhāya tat || 40 ||Those Vraja-vāsīs, by their natural loving prema, offered everything for the happiness of Nanda-nandana Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda
(By Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī himself including a deep purport of that commentary)
Śrī Rohiṇī-devī is also narrating something further: The vraja-vāsīs offered everything for the happiness of Śrī Kṛṣṇa due to their natural prema. They used to do everything for Śrī Kṛṣṇa and never used to do anything for the fulfillment of their selfish interests. They used to consider your Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa to be the son of Nanda Mahārāja only, not the Supreme Lord or Yadu-nandana, the progeny of Yadu Mahārāja. Therefore, because of the rise of that great natural prema in the vraja-vāsīs, they would behave suitably according to that prema.