Verse 2.1.153

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 2.1.153:

स्वयं च क्वचिद् आसक्तिम् अकृत्वा पूर्ववद् वसन् ।
जपं निर्वाहयन् भुञ्जे प्रसादान्नं प्रभोः परम् ॥ १५३ ॥

svayaṃ ca kvacid āsaktim akṛtvā pūrvavad vasan |
japaṃ nirvāhayan bhuñje prasādānnaṃ prabhoḥ param || 153 ||

svayam–personally; ca–and; kvacit–at any time; āsaktim–material attachment; akṛtvā–not having; pūrva-vat–as before; vasan–living; japam–chanting of the divine vibration; nirvāhayan–continuing; bhuñje–I ate; prasāda-annam–the remnants of offered food; prabhoḥ–of the Lord; param–only.

Although engaged in this way, I did not develop attachment to anything and remained as renounced as before. Daily, I would complete chanting my mantra in a solitary place and then accept only the Lord’s prasāda as food.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

(By Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī himself including a deep purport of that commentary)

Śrī Gopa-kumāra says, “Although the kingdom had come into my hands, nevertheless, due to the potency of chanting my mantra (mantra-japa), I remained unaffected.” This is explained in this verse beginning with svayam. “Despite obtaining that royal position, I never became attached to wealth, objects, etc., and, as in the past, I kept no material possessions. Consequently, I would regularly complete chanting my mantra-japa, and then, to maintain my body, I would accept only remnants of food offered to Jagadīśvara. I would do so in the knowledge that those foodstuffs were prasāda, the mercy of the Lord.”