Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 6 Texts 1-3 – March 31, 2024

Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta Part 1 Chapter 6 Texts 1-3

śrī-parīkṣid uvāca

tac chrutvārye mahā-prema-

rasāveśena yantritaḥ

mahā-viṣṇu-priyo vīṇā-

hasto ’sau vismṛtākhilaḥ

sadā-dvāravatī-vāsā-

bhyastāntaḥ-pura-vartmanā

prabhu-prāsāda-deśāntaḥ-

praveśāścarya-vāhinā

pūrvābhyāsād ivābhyāsaṁ

prāsādasya gato muniḥ

bhūtāviṣṭo mahonmāda-

gṛhītaś ca yathetaraḥ

TRANSLATION

Śrī Parīkṣit said: Noble mother, after hearing Ugrasena’s advice, Nārada, the dear devotee of Lord Mahā-viṣṇu, became absorbed in the taste of exalted love of God, which seized him in its grip. Forgetting everything else, he started off, vīṇā in hand. Having spent much time before in Dvārakā, Nārada automatically took the familiar roads to the center of the city, amazing roads that led to the neighborhood of the Lord’s palaces, and came to a palace of Kṛṣṇa’s that he knew how to reach from earlier visits. Under the spell of intense transcendental agitation, Nārada seemed like an ordinary person haunted by a ghost.