Verse 1.7.150-151

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 1.7.150-151:

अथ प्रयागे गत्वा तान् मद्-अपेक्षा-विलम्बितान् ।
मुनीन् कृतार्थयानीति समनुज्ञाप्य माधवम् ॥ १५० ॥
स्वयं यद् भक्ति-माहात्म्यम् अनुभूतम् इतस् ततः ।
सानन्दं वीणया गायन् स ययौ भक्ति-लम्पटः ॥ १५१ ॥

atha prayāge gatvā tān mad-apekṣā-vilambitān |
munīn kṛtārthayānīti samanujñāpya mādhavam || 150 ||
svayaṃ yad bhakti-māhātmyam anubhūtam itas tataḥ |
sānandaṃ vīṇayā gāyan sa yayau bhakti-lampaṭaḥ || 151 ||

Thereafter Śrī Nārada, eager to serve and please the sages who were waiting for him in Prayāga, got permission from Śrī Mādhava and went away, blissfully singing the glories of the bhakti he had experienced while wandering to different places.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

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

Thereafter, the best of sages, Śrī Nārada went to Prayāga, after taking permission from Śrī Mādhava, namely, that moonlike Śrī Bhagavān who rose out of the oceanof the dynasty of Madhu. This is the logical connection of the two verses beginning with atha prayāge.

Why did Devarṣi, the sage among gods, leave for Prayāga? Śrī Nārada departed after first getting permission from Śrī Mādhava, and then to satisfy all the sages who sat there after their morning bath in Prayāga in the month of Māgha at the confluence of the three holy rivers (triveṇī saṅgama) by disclosing all the confidential secrets of bhakti. It was not possible to reveal those confidential secrets of bhakti in the association of the sages without the order of Bhagavān.

Here, the connotation of having said mādhava is that those sages who had taken shelter of the Prayāga tīrtha, which is presided over by Bhagavān Śrī Mādhava, were also under the shelter of Mādhava—this is the intimation. Śrī Nārada is rasika in bhagavad-bhakti;therefore, he happily went away from there while playing his vīṇā and singing the hidden secrets of bhakti that he had personally experienced while visiting all the places, beginning from Prayāga up to Dvārakā.