Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.12.30
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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avyayaḥ
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the inexhaustible one
From a- (not) + vyaya (expenditure, decay). Kṛṣṇa is undiminishable. Bhagavad-gītā 2.17 uses the same word — 'know that to be indestructible by which all this is pervaded.' The Lord whom the demon thinks he is consuming is constitutively non-consumable.
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sa-arbha-vatsakam
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along with the boys and the calves
Compound: sa (with) + arbha (boy) + vatsaka (little calf). Kṛṣṇa's protective concern includes the calves too. Gauḍīyas: Bhagavān's rakṣaṇa extends to every creature in His association, not just the human devotees.
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cūrṇī-cikīrṣoḥ
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of him who wished to grind them to powder
Compound: cūrṇa (powder) + cikīrṣu (desirous to make). 'Powder-wanting-to-make' — a tight grammatical noun. The demon's intent named precisely; Kṛṣṇa's act is direct response.
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vavṛdhe
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He expanded
From vṛdh- (to grow). Kṛṣṇa's body grew. Gauḍīyas: Bhagavān's body is acintya — limited and unlimited at once. The same hand Yaśodā holds in chapter 9 here fills the throat of an eight-mile demon. Acintya-bhedābheda of His own form.
Such are the acts of Kṛṣṇa. Paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām ( Bg. 4.8 ). By enlarging Himself within the throat of the demon, Kṛṣṇa suffocated and killed him and at the same time saved Himself and His associates from imminent death and also saved the demigods from lamentation.
Hearing the sounds of dismay from the devatas, and the sounds of rejoicing from the demons, Krsna then expanded his form in the throat of the snake, who tried to swallow him into his stomach and digest him and the other boys. Krsna did this to reverse sounds of the lamentations of the devatas and the sounds of rejoicing of the demons. In the pastimes of killing Sakatasura, Trnavarta, and getting bound up, Krsna remained in a very small form and spread his powers. Therefore in the throat of Aghasura he expanded his form to show that he did not lack the power to expand himself in size. In the Damodara and other pastimes the Lord maintained his small form suitably because the devotees could taste in that form the full sweetness and within that, the astonishment caused by a show of power, with no disturbance to the conception of Krsna as their child. But here in the absence of the two parents who were relishing the sweetness, he, being the Lord, took the more common method of just expanding himself to kill the demon.
When he heard the shouts of the devatās, Kṛṣṇa expanded himself in the throat of the demon who wanted to crush him and the boys by shutting his mouth and rolling his body about. He expanded his body to a big size, like a spike, in order to plug the throat of the demon so that his mouth would stay open and he would die. He could to this because he was Bhagavān, full of all powers and he did not decrease in power (avyayaḥ). Thus all fear of failure was removed. Or why did he expand himself? He does not allow dissipation of his devotees (avyayaḥ). He did it to protect his devotees. The reason is that he is Kṛṣṇa, whose heart is attracted (kṛṣ) by the devotees.
- Where am I trying to wriggle out of a hard situation when I should be letting Kṛṣṇa expand within it?
- What in my life would 'suffocate' (lose its grip) if Kṛṣṇa simply grew larger in my consciousness today?
Picture a flame that suddenly expands until the lantern it sits in cannot hold it — except here the lantern is a demon's throat, and the flame is the Lord of all worlds. Kṛṣṇa's response to His friends' danger is not a weapon and not a mantra; it is His own body, enlarged to choke evil from within.
My note
Source: vedabase.io