Verse 2.1.42

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.1.42:

নিরবধি কৃষ্ণাবেশ প্রভুর শরীরে মহা-বিরক্তের প্রায ব্যবহার করে ॥ ৪২ ॥

निरवधि कृष्णावेश प्रभुर शरीरे महा-विरक्तेर प्राय व्यवहार करे ॥ ४२ ॥

niravadhi kṛṣṇāveśa prabhura śarīre mahā-viraktera prāya vyavahāra kare || 42 ||

niravadhi krsnavesa prabhura sarire maha-viraktera praya vyavahara kare (42)

English translation:

(42) Ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa was constantly visible in the body of the Lord, and He became most renounced in His dealings.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Love of Kṛṣṇa in the mood of adhirūḍha-mahābhāva was always found in the body of the Lord. Therefore, following in the footsteps of a topmost renunciant and being absorbed in the mood of a devotee, He gave up all desires for enjoying personal happiness and, as the personification of pure renunciation, He displayed intense eagerness for being attracted to an enchanting tamāla-tree-blackish personality. Regarding the simultaneous presence of knowledge, renunciation, and devotion, one should discuss the following verse from Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (11.2.42):

bhaktiḥ pareśānubhavo viraktir anyatra caiṣa trika eka-kālaḥ prapadyamānasya yathāśnataḥ syus tuṣṭiḥ puṣṭiḥ kṣud-apāyo ‘nu-ghāsam

“Devotion, direct experience of the Supreme Lord, and detachment from other things—these three occur simultaneously for one who has taken shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in the same way that pleasure, nourishment, and relief from hunger come simultaneously and increasingly, with each bite, for a person engaged in eating.”