Verse Text
tatra ca bhaktiḥ –
samasta-guṇa-varjite karaṇataḥ pratīcīnatāṁ
gate kim api vastuni svayam adīpi tāvat sukham |
na yāvad iyam adbhutā nava-tamāla-nīla-dyuter
mukunda sukha-cid-ghanā tava babhūva sākṣāt-kṛtiḥ ||14||
Translation
Their bhakti: O Mukunda! Until we realized Your astonishing form of knowledge and bliss with the complexion of a new tamāla tree, we were absorbed in the indescribable brahman beyond the senses and modes of material nature.
Purport (Nectar of Devotion)
In one of the prayers of the Kumāra brothers, this declaration is made: “O Lord Mukunda [Kṛṣṇa, the giver of liberation], only so long as one does not happen to see Your eternal form of bliss and knowledge, appearing just like a newly-grown tamāla tree, with a bluish hue—only for so long can the impersonal feature of the Absolute Truth, known as Brahman, be very pleasing to a saintly person.”