Verse 2.1.122

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 2.1.122:

पूजा-विधिं शिक्षयितुं ध्येयम् उच्चारयन् जपे ।
प्रेमाकुलो गतो मोहं रुदन् विरहिनीव सः ॥ १२२ ॥

pūjā-vidhiṃ śikṣayituṃ dhyeyam uccārayan jape |
premākulo gato mohaṃ rudan virahinīva saḥ || 122 ||

pūjā–of worship; vidhim–the process; śikṣayitum–to instruct; dhyeyam–on the object of meditation; uccārayan–training me to utter; jape–in soft chanting; prema-ākulaḥ–aggrieved due to love; gataḥ–became; moham–unconscious; rudan–crying; virahiṇī–a woman separated from her husband; iva–as; saḥ–he.

However, while instructing me in the process of worshiping the mantra, as soon as he mentioned the object of one’s meditation while chanting this mantra, he began to weep piteously in divine love, like an aggrieved woman separated from her husband. Then he fell unconscious.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

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

Śrī Gopa-kumāra says, “He began explaining to me the process of worship. To instruct me in processes like nyāsa (symbolic hand gestures), dhyāna (contemplation), etc., he began to describe the object of meditation, the beautiful form of Śrī Madanagopāla. But as soon as the description of Madana-gopāla’s form reached the tip of his tongue, he was instantly overwhelmed by prema. Just as a woman separated from her husband cries when remembering him at the slightest prompting, the brāhmaṇa wept remembering his Lord, and then fell unconscious.”