Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Text 136
TRANSLATION
Śrī Gopa-kumāra said: I then wanted to hear Nārada explain from his own mouth certain philosophical conclusions about which I was already thinking. My ears were forcing me to do this.
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Text 125
TRANSLATION
The great master Nārada said: My dear son of a cowherd, you have received the mercy of the divine Lord of Vaikuṇṭha. Yet from signs like the paleness of your face you appear depressed, like someone suffering misfortune.
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Text 111
TRANSLATION
Yet my mind would still feel sad because I couldn’t see the Lord and His companions play as they do here in the land of Vraja.
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Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 2 Chapter 4 Text 107
TRANSLATION
“Kṛṣṇa is so kind to His devotees that saṅkīrtana of any of His activities is glorious and beneficial, and satisfying to our divine master.”
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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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