Verse 3.10.15

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.10.15:

আমি যত-ক্ষণ ধরি’ দেখি জগন্নাথ আমার লোচন আর না যায কোথাত ॥ ১৫ ॥

आमि यत-क्षण धरि’ देखि जगन्नाथ आमार लोचन आर ना याय कोथात ॥ १५ ॥

āmi yata-kṣaṇa dhari’ dekhi jagannātha āmāra locana āra nā yāya kothāta || 15 ||

ami yata-ksana dhari’ dekhi jagannatha amara locana ara na yaya kothata (15)

English translation:

(15) “For as long as I take darśana of Lord Jagannātha, My eyes do not move anywhere else.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

When Śrī Gaurasundara would see Lord Jagannātha, He would simply gaze at the Lord’s face. In his book Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta, Śrī Bilvamaṅgala has described the sweetness of the Lord’s beautiful face. The sweetness of the Lord’s face is superior to the sweetness of His other limbs, and the sweetness of His enchanting smile is superior to the sweetness of His face.

Śrī Gaurasundara has expressed that the Lord’s lotus face, composed of five knowledge-acquiring senses, is more attractive than His other limbs. And the Lord’s smile, which is indicative of His pleasure, stimulates and acknowledges resolute service.

Śrī Advaita Prabhu circumambulated Lord Śrī Jagannātha five to seven times. His object of vision was the body of the Lord, but Śrī

Gaurasundara’s object of vision was Lord Jagannātha’s lotus face. Therefore Śrī Gaurasundara defeated Advaita Prabhu in the contest. When one is behind Jagannātha while circumambulating Him, one can see only the back half of His body, but when one sees from the front, one can have eye-to-eye contact.