Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.11.19
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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paśya paśya
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just see, just see
Doubled imperative of dṛś (to see). Gauḍīya commentators note the vātsalya-doubling — love repeats itself. The same syntactic pattern appears in Yaśodā's calling 'kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa' (verse 15) and 'sādhu sādhu' (verse 30). Repetition is the grammar of affection.
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vayasyān
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boys of Your age
Vayasya — age-mates, peers. In Gauḍīya rasa-theology, Kṛṣṇa's vayasyas in Vraja (especially Subala, Madhumaṅgala, Śrīdāmā) are sakhya-rasa eternal associates. The verse's mention of vayasyas thus carries doctrinal weight beyond the immediate scene.
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mātṛ - mṛṣṭān
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cleansed by their mothers
Mṛṣṭa — wiped clean, polished. The compound emphasizes that the work is done by the mothers, not the boys themselves. Gauḍīya teaching: even bodily care, when done by a devotee's hand, is seva — and the receiver of seva is, ultimately, Kṛṣṇa in the form of the cared-for child.
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su - alaṅkṛtān
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well decorated
Su-alaṅkṛta — beautifully ornamented. Alaṅkāra is one of the elements of Kṛṣṇa's worship in Vraja: the Deity is dressed and decorated daily. Even the children's dressing is a domestic echo of arcana — the household running on Vraja's rhythms of bath, dress, feed.
Generally young boys are competitive. If one friend has done something, another friend also wants to do something. Therefore mother Yaśodā pointed out how Kṛṣṇa’s playmates were decorated, so that Kṛṣṇa might be induced to decorate Himself like them.
When he still did not come, she tried to generate envy in him by showing the example of the other boys.
She repeats the word paśya as an expression of scolding, anger or lamentation arising from prema. See your friends who have been cleansed by their mothers by bathing etc. and then nicely ornamented.
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- Notice one healthy peer-comparison today and let it pull you toward sādhana — earlier rising, cleaner chanting — rather than toward viṣaya.
- Before sitting for japa or study, take a proper bath and eat a sāttvika meal, treating bodily care as Yaśodā's loving prelude to service, not a distraction from it.
- Speak to a younger person in your life the way mother Yaśodā speaks to Kṛṣṇa — coaxing, specific, affectionate — instead of issuing abstract moral commands.
A mother does not lecture her playing child on cleanliness in the abstract; she points to the bright neighbor-boy and says, 'See how they are dressed.' Healthy comparison is bait, not poison — Yaśodā uses Kṛṣṇa's natural delight in being seen and praised to draw Him toward bath, food, and ornament. Sādhana is more often coaxed than commanded.
Caitanya Mahāprabhu, gathering the Six Gosvāmīs in Vṛndāvana, did not command their renunciation; He coaxed each of them — Rūpa and Sanātana through dialogue at Rāmakeli, Raghunātha dāsa through years of waiting, Gopāla Bhaṭṭa through a vision — using the natural affinities of each soul as the bait toward sādhana.
Gauḍīya tradition: the higher the bhakti, the more skillfully it appeals to what each person already loves. Yaśodā's pointing at the well-dressed playmates is the household-scale of the same principle that the ācāryas use to draw souls to Kṛṣṇa: meet the child where he is, then walk him home.
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