Verse 2.2.119

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 2.2.119:

कदाचित् सनकादिंश् च ध्यान-निष्ठा-वशं गतान् ।
विन्दतस् तानि रूपाणि दृष्ट्वाप्नोमि परं मुदम् ॥ ११९ ॥

kadācit sanakādiṃś ca dhyāna-niṣṭhā-vaśaṃ gatān |
vindatas tāni rūpāṇi dṛṣṭvāpnomi paraṃ mudam || 119 ||

kadācit–sometimes; sanaka-ādīn–the sages headed by Sanaka; ca–also; dhyāna–in meditation; niṣṭhā–of their determination; vaśam–by the power; gatān–attained; vindataḥ–attaining; tāni–these; rūpāṇi–forms; dṛṣṭvā–seeing; āpnomi–I would attain; parām–supreme; mudam–happiness.

Sometimes I would observe that when Sanaka and his brothers were deeply absorbed in meditation on Śrī Bhagavān, they would assume forms similar to the form of the Lord they were meditating upon. I became supremely elated to see their dedication to their practice and the level of their absorption, which reflected the power of their meditation.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

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

Śrī Gopa-kumāra says, “I would also see that sometimes Śrī Sanaka and the other Kumāras, while meditating on different forms of Bhagavān, would assume forms like His. They were so resolute and so intensely absorbed in their practice that they would actually assume the same shape as their object of meditation. This is similar to the insect who, trapped by the peśaskṛt bee, is so intensely absorbed in thoughts of his captor that he takes on the form of a peśaskṛt bee. Seeing the sages’ staunch meditation and the deep absorption that arose from their steadfast determination, I was transported with ecstasy.”