Brihad Bhagavatamrita (commentary)
by Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyana Gosvāmī Mahārāja | 2005 | 440,179 words | ISBN-13: 9781935428329
The Brihad-bhagavatamrita Verse 1.7.1, 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 1.7.1 contained in Chapter 7—Purna (pinnacle of excellent devotees)—of Part one (prathama-khanda).
Verse 1.7.1
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 1.7.1:
श्री-परीक्षिद् उवाच—
इत्थं स-परिवारस्य मातस् तस्यातिरोदनैः ।
ब्रह्माण्डं व्याप्य सञ्जातो महोत्पात-चयः क्षणात् ॥ १ ॥śrī-parīkṣid uvāca—
itthaṃ sa-parivārasya mātas tasyātirodanaiḥ |
brahmāṇḍaṃ vyāpya sañjāto mahotpāta-cayaḥ kṣaṇāt || 1 ||Śrī Parīkṣit Mahārāja said: O mother, when Śrī Kṛṣṇa and his family began to cry pitifully in this way, then the sound of their weeping instantly engulfed the entire brahmāṇḍa. Subsequently, various kinds of foreboding calamities such as shooting stars began to appear.
Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda
(By Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī himself including a deep purport of that commentary)
This seventh chapter describes the curtailing of Śrī Bhagavān’s illusion from the crafty tricks of Śrī Brahmā. Finally, this chapter describes the subject matter of the glories of the pinnacle of excellence of the gopīs, in which Śrī Nārada heard and described from the lotus mouth of Śrī Bhagavān.
The crying of Bhagavān instantly spread all over the entire brahmāṇḍa and many different types of foreboding calamities like bolts of lightning and “shooting stars” (spontaneous meteors) began to appear.