Verse 2.4.26

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 2.4.26:

तं दृष्ट्वा सर्वथामांसि जगद्-ईशम् अहं पुरीम् ।
प्रविशन्तं निजाम् एत्य गत्वा कुत्रापि लीलया ॥ २६ ॥

taṃ dṛṣṭvā sarvathāmāṃsi jagad-īśam ahaṃ purīm |
praviśantaṃ nijām etya gatvā kutrāpi līlayā || 26 ||

tam–him; dṛṣṭvā–having seen; sarvathā–in every way; amaṃsi–I thought; jagat-īśam–the Lord of the universe; aham–I; purīm–the city; praviśantam–entering; nijām–own; etya–having returned; gatvā–having gone; kutra api–somewhere; līlayā–to perform a pastime.

Seeing him, I thought, “Surely He must be the Lord of the universe. He had gone somewhere as part of His pastimes and is now returning to the city.”

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

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

Śrī Gopa-kumāra says, “In this way, I was completely convinced that whomever I saw was Śrī Vaikuṇṭheśvara, the Lord of the universe Himself.” The brāhmaṇa might raise the doubt, “The associates who accompanied you entered the inner portion of the city because Śrī Vaikuṇṭha-nātha was present there. Therefore, how could you assume that the Lord was outside?”

To this, he replies, “I thought the Lord had gone somewhere as a pastime, and He was just now returning to the city. Out of great respect, my sense of discrimination ceased to function. It could have also been possible that the eternal associates of the Lord who had accompanied me entered the city without knowing that the Lord had gone out.”