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Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu .3.126

mūrcchitam –
[moorchchitam –]
dīvyatīha madhure mathurāyāṁ
[deevyateeha madhure mathuraayaam]
prāpya rājyam adhunā madhu-nāthe |
[praapya raajyam adhunaa madhu-naathe |]
viśvam eva muditaṁ ruditāndhe
[vishvam eva muditam ruditaandhe]
gokule tu muhur ākulatābhūt ||126||
[gokule tu muhur aakulataabhoot ||126||]
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
mūrcchitam –
dīvyatīha madhure mathurāyāṁ
prāpya rājyam adhunā madhu-nāthe |
viśvam eva muditaṁ ruditāndhe
gokule tu muhur ākulatābhūt ||126||
Fainting: The Lord of the Madhus, having attained a kingdom at sweet Mathurā, now enjoys Himself and gives bliss to the world. But crying and fainting repeatedly, Gokula has become completely confused.

One friend of Kṛṣṇa’s criticized Him by saying, “My dear Lord, You have become the King of Mathurā after killing Kaṁsa, and that is very good news for us. But at Vṛndāvana all the residents have become blind from their continuous crying over Your absence. They are full only of anxieties and are not cheered at all by Your becoming the King of Mathurā.”

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Durgama-saṅgamanī
Commentary

This is a message given by one cowherd boy living in Vraja to Kṛṣṇa when He was residing in Mathurā. Ruditāndhe (darkness after crying) implies continuous state of fainting after crying. The word Gokula actually indicates the speaker, a cowherd boyfriend of Kṛṣṇa. (This is an example of fainting in separation for those in sakhya-rasa). Ākulatā means “By again and again crying and fainting, I have become completely bewildered.”

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