Verse 2.2.156

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 2.2.156:

अथाप्य् अन्तर्-महोद्वेगः स्यात् ततो व्यञ्जिते श्रिया ।
स्नेहे मात्रेव हृष्टः स्याम् एवं तत्रावसं चिरम् ॥ १५६ ॥

athāpy antar-mahodvegaḥ syāt tato vyañjite śriyā |
snehe mātreva hṛṣṭaḥ syām evaṃ tatrāvasaṃ ciram || 156 ||

tathā api–still; antaḥ–within my mind; mahā–great; udvegaḥ–disturbance; syāt–there might be; tataḥ–then; vyañjite–manifest; śriyā–by the goddess of fortune; snehe–love; mātrā–a mother; iva–like; hṛṣṭaḥ–content; syām–I would become; evam–thus; tatra–there; avasam–I lived; ciram–for a long time.

Śrī Jagadīśvara forgave me, but I still considered myself an offender and was always troubled. Knowing this, Śrī Lakṣmī-devī would console me, reassuring me with loving words like a mother. This would fill my heart with joy and thus I stayed there happily for a very long time.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

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

Śrī Gopa-kumāra says, “Although Śrī Jagadiśa forgave my transgressions, I still considered myself an offender. I was aware of the shortcomings in my service to Him and was thus always dejected. Understanding my troubled heart, Śrī Lakṣmī-devī would comfort me lovingly with motherly affection, and then I would become joyful again. In this way, although my distress had a cause, I lived most happily in Satyaloka for a long time.”