Text 4.63

क्रमेणोदाहरणानि,

krameṇodāharaṇāni,

(1) Examples are shown in order (this illustrates a svataḥ-sambhavī vastu-dhvani that suggests another vastu-dhvani):

hastam utkṣipya yāto’si balāt kṛṣṇa kim adbhutam | hṛdayād yadi niryāsi pauruṣaṃ gaṇayāmi te || hastam—the hand; utkṣipya—after giving up; yātaḥ asi—You have gone; balāt—by force; kṛṣṇa—O Kṛṣṇa; kim adbhutam—what is amazing?; hṛdayāt—from the heart; yadi—if; niryāsi—You go away; pauruṣam—manliness; gaṇayāmi—I reckon; te—Your.

Okay Kṛṣṇa, You forcefully let go of my hand and suddenly left. What is amazing about that? However, if You go away from my heart, then I will reckon Your manliness. (Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta) (Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 2.4.43)

atra vastunā bhaktānurakto bhagavān iti vastu.

Here, this idea (vastu): “The Lord likes a devotee,” is implied by means of a vastu (the implied idea, which is naturally possible, that Kṛṣṇa did not leave Bilvamaṅgala’s heart).

Commentary:

Jīva Gosvāmī interprets the verse differently: vyaṅgya-pradhānam eva, arthāntara-saṅkramitatvāt. tac ca vyaṅgyaṃ yadi mayy udāsīnatāṃ gato’si, tathāpi tvāṃ na tyajāmīti, “There is only a predominance of an implied meaning, since the literal meaning changes to another sense (arthāntara-saṅkramita) (“if You go away from my heart” means “You cannot possibly leave my heart”). And that implied meaning is: “If You become indifferent to me, even then I will not give You up” (Kṛṣṇa will always stay in Bilvamaṅgala’s heart, at least in the form of a thought)” (Durgama-saṅgamanī 2.4.43). Bilvamaṅgala was blind. Thus Jīva Gosvāmī’s implied sense is an arthāntara-saṅkramita-vācya dhvani (4.1).