Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Text 91
TRANSLATION
When the time came to stop, everyone, on the request of Lakṣmīdevī, started to leave, but I didn’t want to go. The devotees had to persuade me to let them escort me outside.
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Text 78
TRANSLATION
With some effort, those attendants lifted me up, and after some time I regained consciousness. I wiped away with my hands the flood of tears that blocked my sight, and with difficulty I finally opened my eyes.
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Text 79
TRANSLATION
Then I heard the Lord, that best of merciful persons, tell me in a deep, gentle voice, “Please come back to your senses. Dear boy, come here quickly!”
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Texts 62-63
prāsādam ekaṁ vividhair mahattā-
pūrair viśiṣṭaṁ para-sīma-yātaiḥ
prāpto ’ham āditya-sudhāṁśu-koṭi-
kāntiṁ mano-locana-vṛtti-coram
TRANSLATION
I passed rapidly through many districts, wonderfully splendid, with all kinds of houses and gates, and then I entered the most excellent transcendental neighborhood. There I came to one palace at whose feet many others stood in attendance, a palace distinct, overflowing in greatness, where excellence seemed to reach its highest limit. Radiant like millions of suns and moons, it captured my mind and my eyes.
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Texts 56-57
antaḥ praveśyamāno yad
dṛṣṭavān adbhutādbhutam
vaktuṁ tad dvi-parārdhena
sahasrāsyo ’pi na kṣamaḥ
TRANSLATION
Thus I thrilled with delight as I waited in the gateway to Vaikuṇṭha. I excitedly stood up and sat down, stood up and sat down, till the associates of the Lord returned, rushing back, and escorted me inside. The amazing things I then saw, more wonderful than wonderful, even the thousand-headed Ananta Śeṣa would be unable to describe, even in a lifetime of Brahmā.
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Texts 42-43
tad-dṛṣṭāntākulenaiva
tat tat syād bodhitaṁ sukham
tathety ucyeta yat kiñcit
tad āgaḥ kṣamatāṁ hariḥ
TRANSLATION
Nonetheless, my dear brāhmaṇa, you are a resident of the material world, and your intelligence is confined because you can see only matter. Therefore I say “It is like this” so that by material examples you might understand various things more easily. May Lord Hari forgive this offense.
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Text 28
TRANSLATION
Many others came — some alone, others in pairs, and yet others together in larger groups — and all of them, each more splendid than the last, entered the city of the Lord.
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Text 14
TRANSLATION
But I refused their offer, and instead, by their influence, my own body born in Govardhana assumed qualities and beauty like theirs.
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Texts 10-11
sarvam anyādṛśaṁ dṛṣṭvā
vismitaḥ svasthatāṁ gataḥ
pārśve ’paśyaṁ purā dṛṣṭāṁs
tān evātma-priyaṁ-karān
TRANSLATION
At that moment the associates of the Lord arrived in an airplane to take me to Vaikuṇṭha. They at once put me on that plane and carried me away, and when I opened my eyes I saw that everything was different. Shocked, I returned to full consciousness and saw them beside me, the same benefactors I had met before.
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 3 Text 184
TRANSLATION
Dearer to the Lord than even His own beautiful form, His easily worshiped holy name benefits the entire world. Indeed, nothing is as full of nectar as the holy name of the Lord.
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