Verse 1.7.143

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 1.7.143:

पायं पायं व्रज-जन-गण-प्रेम-वापी-मराल श्रीमन्-नामामृतम् अविरतं गोकुलाब्ध्य्-उत्थितं ते ।
तत्-तद्-वेशाचरित-निकरोज्जृम्भितं मिष्ट-मिष्टं सर्वांल् लोकान् जगति रमयन् मत्त-चेष्टो भ्रमाणि ॥ १४३ ॥

pāyaṃ pāyaṃ vraja-jana-gaṇa-prema-vāpī-marāla śrīman-nāmāmṛtam avirataṃ gokulābdhy-utthitaṃ te |
tat-tad-veśācarita-nikarojjṛmbhitaṃ miṣṭa-miṣṭaṃ sarvāṃl lokān jagati ramayan matta-ceṣṭo bhramāṇi || 143 ||

O Rāja-haṃsa, who swims in the lake of divine love of the vrajavāsīs, may I wander everywhere, making the whole world happy, always blissfully drinking the nectar of Your sweeter than sweet holy names that originate from the Ocean of Gokula that manifest from Your indescribably divine pastimes in the dress of a cowherd boy. (This is my first reqest for a boon.)

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

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

In this way, Śrī Nārada is petitioning for two boons as he praises Bhagavān. The two verses beginning with pāyaṃ pāyaṃ elaborate upon this.

“O Rāja-haṃsa, King of the swanlike devotees, who swims in the lake of divine love of the vraja-vāsīs! Just as the royal swan happily lives in a lake, similarly You also live happily in the lake of the love of the residents of Vraja. May I wander everywhere while constantly drinking the nectar of Your all-attractive holy names, arising from the nectarean ocean of Gokula. Thus may I make the whole world happy by spreading the mellow of the kīrtana of Your names as I perform my activities like a foolish person, that is, simultaneously laughing, crying, making uproarious sounds of lamentation and dancing, due to the manifestation of the bliss of prema.

Or rather, the import of saying activities like a mad person is that just as a mad person forgets his body and his bodily activities and wanders everywhere in the world, similarly, may I also forget my body and bodily endeavors and always drink the nectar of Your holy names. (This is my first request.)

What is the nature of that maddening nectar of the holy names of Bhagavān? Your names are even sweeter than the sweetest names, just as names such as Śrī Viṣṇu, Śrī Nārāyaṇa, Śrī Narasiṃha, Śrī Rāmacandra, Śrī Mathurānātha, Śrī Yādavendra and others are so sweet. If you say then, “Why are the names that arise from the ocean of Śrī Gokula sweeter than all these names?” He replies that the names that manifest through His indescribable dress, decoration and pastimes
in Gokula themselves are extremely sweet.

The following names are related to the attire: Śikhi-piccha-mauli, “One whose head is decorated with peacock feathers,” Guñjāvataṃsa, “One whose ornaments are made from small red guñja berries,” Kadamba-bhūṣana, “One who wears the ornaments of the Kadamba flowers” and so on. Names that are manifest by His activities are: Pūtanā-prāṇa-pāna, “killer of Pūtana”; Śakaṭa-bhañjana, “killer of Śakaṭāsura, the cart demon,” and so on. Moreover, the following names are on the combination of dress, ornamentation and pastimes, for example, Śrī Nanda-nandana, Son of Śrī Nanda Mahārāja, Śrī Yaśodāvatsala, “One who is beloved of Śrī Yaśodā,” Śrī Gopikā-manohara, “One who steals the minds of the gopīs,” Śrī Vraja-janānanda, “One who gives bliss to the residents of Vraja.”