Verse Text
granthasya gaurava-bhayād asyā bhakti-rasa-śriyaḥ |
samāhṛtiḥ samāsena mayā seyaṁ vinirmitā ||
gopāla-rūpa-śobhāṁ dadhad api raghunātha-bhāva-visārī |
tuṣyatu sanātano ’sminn uttara-bhāge rasāmṛtāmbhodheḥ ||43||
Translation
For fear of making the work too long, in this work I have gathered together in a summarized way the wealth of bhakti-rasa. May He with eternal form, who possesses the beauty of a cowherd boy’s form, and who spreads His bhāvas to Rāmacandra and other forms, be pleased with this northern section of the ocean of sweet rasa. May Sanātana Gosvāmī, who spread the mood of love expressed by Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, and nourished the love of Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī, be pleased with the northern section of the ocean of sweet rasa. Thus ends the Ninth Wave, concerning rasābhāsa, in the Northern Section of the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu. Here ends the Northern section. Here ends the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu. rāmāṅga-śatru-gaṇite śāke gokulam adhiṣṭhitenāyam | bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhur viṭaṅkitaḥ kṣudra-rūpeṇa || Translation: This work called Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu was written in meager form, in the year 1436 Śāka while living in Gokula.
Purport (Nectar of Devotion)
NoD Concluding Words
Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī concludes by saying that Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu is very difficult for ordinary men to understand, yet he hopes that Lord Kṛṣṇa, the eternal Supreme Personality of Godhead, will be pleased with his presentation of this book.
By rough calculation it is estimated that Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī finished Śrī Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu in Gokula Vṛndāvana in the year 1552. While physically present, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī was living in different parts of Vṛndāvana, and his headquarters were in the temple of Rādhā-Dāmodara in the present city of Vṛndāvana. The place of Rūpa Gosvāmī’s bhajana, execution of devotional service, is commemorated still. There are two different tomblike structures in the Rādhā-Dāmodara temple; one structure is called his place of bhajana, and in the other his body is entombed. Behind this very tomb I have my place of bhajana, but since 1965 I have been away. The place, however, is being taken care of by my disciples. By Kṛṣṇa’s will, I am now residing at the Los Angeles temple of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. This purport is finished today, the 30th of June, 1969.