adhokṣajālambham ihāśubhātmanaḥ
adhokṣajālambham ihāśubhātmanaḥ
śarīriṇaḥ saṁsṛti-cakra-śātanam
tad brahma-nirvāṇa-sukhaṁ vidur budhās
tato bhajadhvaṁ hṛdaye hṛd-īśvaram
The wise know that direct contact with the Lord, which includes the happiness of Brahman, destroys saṁsāra for the sinful persons possessing material bodies in this world. Therefore worship the Lord possessing various bhāvas in his heart
“Is not the happiness of Brahman well known as the highest goal?” That is true. However, it is included in the happiness of meeting the Lord. The wise know that direct attainment of the Lord or even slight contact of the mind (ālambham) with the Lord destroys (śātanam) the wheel of saṁsāra. That is also the happiness of brahma-nirvāṇa since the Supreme Lord possesses that Brahman. There is unlimitedly greater happiness arising from one’s possessive feelings caused by the Lord’s having dāsya and other bhāvas, than in experiencing the happiness of brahma-nirvāṇa, since one tastes the sweetness of the Lord’s feet in the form of the highest bliss. There is natural happiness on seeing the moon which gives bliss and good fortune by all people’s eyes. But there millions of times more bliss on seeing one’s son, though he may be lame, blind or deaf, which a misfortune in everyone’s eyes, because of one’s possessiveness.
There is the greatest amount of bliss arising from the Lord’s svarūpa as Bhagavān, the parabrahman, possessing bhāvas like dāsya. If one has possessiveness for that form, one experiences the greatest good fortune of falling into thousands of waves in the ocean of bliss.
yā nirvṛtis tanu-bhṛtāṁ tava pāda-padma-
dhyānād bhavaj-jana-kathā-śravaṇena vā syāt
sā brahmaṇi sva-mahimany api nātha mā bhūt
kiṁ tv antakāsi-lulitāt patatāṁ vimānāt
The bliss for your servant available from meditating on your lotus feet or from hearing about your pastimes from the devotees is not available in your form of greatness known as Brahman, what to speak of the happiness for those who fall from the pleasures of Svarga. SB 4.9.10
brahmānando bhaved eṣa cet parārddha-guṇīkṛtaḥ |
naiti bhakti-sukhāmbhodheḥ paramāṇu-tulām api ||
The bliss of brahman realization accumulated by samādhi lasting for half of Brahmā’s life cannot compare to one drop of the ocean of the happiness of bhakti. BRS 1.1.38
Another version has adhokṣajālambam. The meaning is then “the wise know that the happiness of Brahman which has the form of the Lord with dāsya, sakhya and other rasas as its object of love destroys the wheel of saṁsāra.” Hṛd-īśvaram means the master of the heart. This indicates bhakti endowed with dāsya and other bhāvas.
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