Brihad Bhagavatamrita (commentary)
by Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyana Gosvāmī Mahārāja | 2005 | 440,179 words | ISBN-13: 9781935428329
The Brihad-bhagavatamrita Verse 2.2.68, 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 2.2.68 contained in Chapter 2—Jnana (knowledge)—of Part two (prathama-khanda).
Verse 2.2.68
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 2.2.68:
विहाय यज्ञ-कर्माणि भक्त्योत्थाय महर्षिभिः ।
प्रणम्य ध्यान-निष्ठोऽसौ यज्ञेश्वरवद् अर्चितः ॥ ६८ ॥vihāya yajña-karmāṇi bhaktyotthāya maharṣibhiḥ |
praṇamya dhyāna-niṣṭho'sau yajñeśvaravad arcitaḥ || 68 ||vihāya–abandoning; yajña–of sacrifice; karmāṇi–the activities; bhaktyā–with devotion; utthāya–rising; mahā-ṛṣibhiḥ–by the great sages; praṇamya–bowing; dhyāna-niṣṭhaḥ–dedicated to meditation; asau–he; yajña-īśvara-vat–like the Lord of sacrifices; arcitaḥ–was worshiped.
Seeing that great personality, who was absorbed in meditation, the maharṣis abandoned their sacrificial rituals and prostrated themselves before him. With loving devotion, they worshiped him in a manner equal to their worship of Śrī Yajñeśvara.
Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda
(By Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī himself including a deep purport of that commentary)
Śrī Gopa-kumāra says, “When Bhṛgu and the other sages saw that child, they abandoned their religious ritual of fire sacrifice, offered him daṇḍavat praṇāmas (prostrated obeisance) and ardently worshiped him in the same way that they worship Yajñeśvara.
But being rapt in meditation, he did not speak with them.”