Śrīmad Bhāgavata 1.1.19

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vayam — we; tu¹³⁰ — however [who are sated by our engagement in yoga and ritual practices (yoga-yāgādiṣu tṛptāḥ sma)¹³¹]; na vitṛpyāmaḥ — are not at all satiated [viśeṣeṇa na tṛpyāmaḥ¹³²]; vikrame — in regard to the heroic deeds [(vikrama-mātre);¹³³ the numerous varieties of divine play (vividha-prakāra-līlāyām)¹³⁴]; uttama-śloka — [of] Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is praised in choice poetry [whose hymns of praise (yasya ślokaḥ), or glories (yaśaḥ) are supreme above all (uttamaḥ, sarva-śreṣṭhaḥ);¹³⁵ or whose glory (ślokaḥ, yaśaḥ) is that by which (yasmāt) ignorance (tamaḥ) is uprooted (ut, i.e., udgacchati); or whose glories are sung (ślokyate) even by the most highly self-realized liberated souls (uttamair jīvan-muktair api), such as the four Kumāras, beginning with Sanaka, who directly experience the bliss of Brahman (brahmānandānubhava-yuktaiḥ)¹³⁶]; śṛṇvatām — hearing; yat — of which [deeds]; rasa-jñānām — the connoisseurs of rasa; svādu svādu — [experience] greater and greater relish [svāduto’pi svādu]; pade pade — at each and every word [or moment (pratikṣaṇam)].

We, however, are not at all satiated in regard to the heroic deeds of Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is praised in choice poetry, hearing of which [deeds], the connoisseurs of rasa experience greater and greater relish at each and every word or moment.

Notes

130Śrīdhara Svāmī comments that the word tu, “however,” may alternatively be rendered in the following sense: “Others, however, may of course be satiated, but not us” (anye tu tṛpyantu nāma vayaṁ tu neti).↩

131Unless otherwise indicated, this and the following bracketed inserts in verse 19 are Śrīdhara Svāmī’s comments. In elaborating the verse’s meaning, he explains that there are three possible causes resulting in satiation — either because the container, such as the stomach, reaches its capacity; or because the person is ignorant in the matter of such taste; or because the object in question loses its taste, like sugar cane, which eventually becomes tasteless by repeated chewing. The first possibility is dismissed because the container is the sky of the listener’s heart, which is limitless in capacity; the second is dismissed because the hearers are connoisseurs of rasa; and the third is dismissed because Bhagavān’s heroic deeds are tastier and tastier at each and every word or moment.↩

132Jīva Gosvāmī.↩

133Jīva Gosvāmī.↩

134Giridhara.↩

135Viśvanātha Cakravartī.↩

136Giridhara.↩

SB 1.1.19

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