Verse 2.1.107

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 2.1.107:

इति बोधयितुं चास्य सर्व-संशय-नोदनम् ।
स्व-वृत्तम् एव निखिलं नूनं प्राक् प्रतिपादये ॥ १०७ ॥

iti bodhayituṃ cāsya sarva-saṃśaya-nodanam |
sva-vṛttam eva nikhilaṃ nūnaṃ prāk pratipādaye || 107 ||

iti–thus; bodhayitum–to enlighten; ca–and; asya–of him; sarva–all; saṃśaya–of doubts; nodanam–eradication; sva-vṛttam–my own life story; eva–indeed; nikhilam–entirely; nūnam–certainly; prāk–first; pratipādaye–I should make him acquainted.

“To enlighten the brāhmaṇa about this truth, I shall first narrate to him my entire life story, by which all his doubts will be eradicated.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

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

Śrī Gopa-kumāra thinks, “Therefore, in order to remove the brāhmaṇa’s doubts regarding the ultimate goal and the means to achieve it, the existential truth (tattva) about these concepts will have to be elucidated.” This is explained in this verse beginning with iti. “To teach this brāhmaṇa the truth of the ultimate goal and its process of achievement, first I will relate my entire life history to him–all my experiences from the time of accepting mantra initiation until the present. This will remove all his doubts on this subject. If, at the outset, I explain the existential understanding of the goal and the process, the brāhmaṇa may not consider it to be in the realm of possibility and this conclusive truth may not manifest completely in his doubt-ridden heart. Therefore, I must first tell him my life-story. His heart will certainly be completely purified by drinking the nectar of Śrī Bhagavān’s pastimes and by hearing my experiences of these sound truths. This aural reception will automatically grant him realization of fundamental truth (tattva-jñāna).”