Verse 2.4.25

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 2.4.25:

दासोऽस्मि दास-दासोऽस्मीत्य् उक्त्वा तस्मिन् गतेऽन्तरम् ।
अन्यः कोऽप्य् आगतोऽमुष्मान् महीयान् वैभवादिभिः ॥ २५ ॥

dāso'smi dāsa-dāso'smīty uktvā tasmin gate'ntaram |
anyaḥ ko'py āgato'muṣmān mahīyān vaibhavādibhiḥ || 25 ||

dāsaḥ–a servant; asmi–I am; dāsa–of the servant; dāsaḥ–a servant; asmi–I am; iti–thus; uktvā–saying; tasmin–in there; gate–having gone; antaram–within; anyaḥ–another; kaḥ api–someone; āgataḥ–come; amuṣmāt–than him; mahīyān–greater; vaibhava-ādibhiḥ–in terms of opulence and so forth.

He entered the city saying, “I am a servant, a servant of the servants.” After this, another person arrived there who was even more opulent than him.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

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

Śrī Gopa-kumāra says, “Entering the city, he said, ‘I am a servant, a servant of the servants.’ After this, another person arrived who possessed even greater opulences than the first. When I addressed him, saying ‘O Lord!’ as I had done with the previous person, he similarly prohibited me by his gestures.”

When Śrī Gopa-kumāra reached Vaikuṇṭha, the associates of the Lord who were accompanying him went inside the city to give news of Gopa-kumāra’s arrival to the Lord. Gopa-kumāra was aware of this, so why did he believe that the Lord had gone outside? The reason for this is not mentioned herein and will be revealed soon. Alternatively, it can be understood that due to his overwhelming sense of awe and reverence, Gopa-kumāra could not ascertain who the Lord actually was.