Verse 3.5.360

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.5.360:

কি ভোজনে কি শযনে কিবা পর্যটনে ক্ষণেক না যায ব্যর্থ সঙ্কীর্তন বিনে ॥ ৩৬০ ॥

कि भोजने कि शयने किबा पर्यटने क्षणेक ना याय व्यर्थ सङ्कीर्तन विने ॥ ३६० ॥

ki bhojane ki śayane kibā paryaṭane kṣaṇeka nā yāya vyartha saṅkīrtana vine || 360 ||

ki bhojane ki sayane kiba paryatane ksaneka na yaya vyartha sankirtana vine (360)

English translation:

(360) When He was eating, sleeping, or wandering about, He did not waste a moment without saṅkīrtana.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu would always glorify the topics of Śrī Gaurahari, even while eating, sleeping, or traveling. He spoke only about topics or Kṛṣṇa, nothing else. His every activity was accompanied by hari-kīrtana. Therefore, while describing Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanyadeva’s teachings in his commentary on the Seventh Canto of the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam and in the Bhakti-sandarbha, Śrī Jīva Gosvāmī Prabhu has written about the activities of Śrī Nityānanda as follows: yadyapi anyā bhaktiḥ kalau kartavyā tadā kīrtanākhya-bhakti-saṃyogenaiva kartavyā—“Although other processes of devotional service should be performed in Kali-yuga, they must all be accompanied by the chanting of the holy names.”