Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 1 Text 30 – January 12, 2025

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 1 Text 30


tac-chiṣya-rūpeṇa ca mat-priyaṁ taṁ
saṁśrāvya śāpaṁ nilayāndha-kūpāt
śrī-vāsudevena vikṛṣya nītaḥ
prāyopaveśāya matiṁ dyu-nadyām

TRANSLATION
When I heard of that curse, I took it as most welcome. Śrī Vāsudeva, in the form of a brāhmaṇa’s disciple, was dragging me out of the blind well of family life and guiding me to choose to fast till death on the shore of the celestial Gaṅgā.

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 1 Text 25 – January 5, 2025

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 1 Text 25


śrī-jaiminir uvāca
mātur evaṁ mahā-ramya-
praśnenānanditaḥ sutaḥ
tāṁ natvā sāśru-romāñcam
ārebhe pratibhāṣitum

TRANSLATION
Śrī Jaimini said: Delighted by this most pleasing inquiry from Mother Uttarā, her son, Parīkṣit, bowed down to her and began his reply. Tears poured from his eyes, and his bodily hairs stood on end.

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 1 Text 20 – December 29, 2024

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 1 Text 20


parāṁ kāṣṭhāṁ gataṁ tat-tad-
rasa-jātīyatocitam
athāpi rāsa-kṛt-tādṛg-
bhaktānām astu kā gatiḥ

TRANSLATION
They have all attained the ultimate limit of happiness, each in his own kind of ecstatic reciprocation with the Lord. But what place is destined for the exceptional devotees of the performer of the rāsa dance?

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 1 Text 20 – December 15, 2024

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 1 Text 20


parāṁ kāṣṭhāṁ gataṁ tat-tad-
rasa-jātīyatocitam
athāpi rāsa-kṛt-tādṛg-
bhaktānām astu kā gatiḥ

TRANSLATION
They have all attained the ultimate limit of happiness, each in his own kind of ecstatic reciprocation with the Lord. But what place is destined for the exceptional devotees of the performer of the rāsa dance?