Verse 3.5.357

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.5.357:

দরশন-মাত্র সর্ব-জীব মুগ্ধ হয নাম-তত্ত্ব দুই—নিত্যানন্দ-রস-ময ॥ ৩৫৭ ॥

दरशन-मात्र सर्व-जीव मुग्ध हय नाम-तत्त्व दुइ—नित्यानन्द-रस-मय ॥ ३५७ ॥

daraśana-mātra sarva-jīva mugdha haya nāma-tattva dui—nityānanda-rasa-maya || 357 ||

darasana-matra sarva-jiva mugdha haya nama-tattva dui—nityananda-rasa-maya (357)

English translation:

(357) All living entities became astonished when they saw Him. The most blissful Nityānanda is the combined form of the holy name and form of the Supreme Lord.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Since Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu decorated Himself with various valuable ornaments and garments, foolish people saw that He was absorbed in the mood of opulence rather than in the transcendental mood of Vraja.

Ordinary poor people, who as a result of poverty considered themselves destitute, did not commit offenses at the lotus feet of Avadhūta Śrī Nityānanda while seeing His opulent manifestation of decorating Himself with various ornaments; rather, since those ornaments were worn to

attract the attention of people bewildered by opulence, they became astonished and found in them sweetness and topics related to the service of Kṛṣṇa.

Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu is directly svayaṃ-prakāśa-tattva. The holy name of the Lord and the Lord Himself combine together and manifest as svayaṃ-prakāśa Nityānanda, the reservoir of transcendental happiness.

Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu and the name Śrī Nityānanda are most relishable transcendental objects. This was revealed to the living entities by the mercy of Śrī Nityānanda.