Verse 2.4.237

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 2.4.237:

तादृग्-भाव-विशेषाशा-वत्याप्य् अजनि तत्-क्षणात् ।
ताभ्यां शोकार्णवे क्षिप्तं माम् आलक्ष्याह सान्त्वयन् ॥ २३७ ॥

tādṛg-bhāva-viśeṣāśā-vatyāpy ajani tat-kṣaṇāt |
tābhyāṃ śokārṇave kṣiptaṃ mām ālakṣyāha sāntvayan || 237 ||

tādṛk–such; bhāva-viśeṣa–for the special ecstasy; āśā–of desire; vātyā–by the tempestuous gale; api–although; ajani–was manifested; tat-kṣaṇāt–from that moment; tābhyām–by them; śoka–of lamentation; arṇave–in an ocean; kṣiptam–thrown; mām–me; ālakṣya–noticing; āha–he said; sāntvayan–consoling.

That very moment, I was submerged in a stormy ocean of lamentation that had two vortexes–the desire for that special ecstasy of premabhakti and the darśana of Śrī Madana-gopāla. Seeing this, the great sage Śrī Nārada consoled me with the following words.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

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

Śrī Gopa-kumāra says, “Therefore, I became submerged in the whirlpool of desire to obtain the special ecstasy (bhāva) of fully ripened prema-bhakti, and at the same time I also became frantic for darśana of my worshipable Deity, Śrī Madana-gopāla. Both these desires were so intense that they turned me into a complete madman, submerging me in an ocean of lamentation. When the merciful great sage Śrī Nārada witnessed this, he began to console me.”