Brihad Bhagavatamrita (commentary)

by Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyana Gosvāmī Mahārāja | 2005 | 440,179 words | ISBN-13: 9781935428329

The Brihad-bhagavatamrita Verse 2.4.202, 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 2.4.202 contained in Chapter 4—Vaikuntha (the spiritual world)—of Part two (prathama-khanda).

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 2.4.202:

श्री-गोप-कुमार उवाच—
पृष्टं मयेदं भगवन् धरा-तले तिष्ठन्ति याः श्री-प्रतिमा महा-प्रभोः ।
ताः सच्-चिद्-आनन्द-घनास् तया मता नीलाद्रि-नाथः पुरुषोत्तमो यथा ॥ २०२ ॥

śrī-gopa-kumāra uvāca
pṛṣṭaṃ mayedaṃ bhagavan dharā-tale tiṣṭhanti yāḥ śrī-pratimā mahā-prabhoḥ |
tāḥ sac-cid-ānanda-ghanās tayā matā nīlādri-nāthaḥ puruṣottamo yathā || 202 ||

śrī-gopa-kumāraḥ–Śrī Gopa-kumāra; uvāca–said; pṛṣṭam–questioned; mayā–by me; idam–this; bhagavan–O lord; dharātale–on the earth planet; tiṣṭhanti–stay; yāḥ–who; śrī-pratimāḥ–the splendid Deity forms; mahā-prabhoḥ–of the Supreme Lord; tāḥ–they; sat-cit-ānanda-ghanāḥ–concentrated eternity, knowledge, and bliss; tvayā–by which; matāḥ–considered; nīlādri-nāthaḥ–the Lord of Nīlācala; puruṣottamaḥ–Lord Jagannātha; yathā–in the same way as.

Śrī Gopa-kumāra said: O brāhmaṇa, I again asked Śrī Nāradajī, “O my lord, in your opinion, are all the Deities of Bhagavān on earth also comprised of eternity, knowledge, and bliss, as is Śrī Puruṣottama, the Lord of Nīlācala?

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

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

In the course of events prior to this, Śrī Gopakumāra had heard the glories of Śrī Bhagavān’s non-moving Deity forms and was convinced that tremendous result could be obtained by worshiping those Deities. Now, to remove the doubts that have just come up by hearing the aforementioned contrary ideas, he raises another philosophical issue in this verse beginning with pṛṣṭam. He says, “O Śrī Nārada, are all the Deities of Bhagavān present on earth sac-cid-ānanda like Puruṣottama Śrī Jagannātha?”

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