Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.14.54
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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priya-tamaḥ sva-ātmā
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the dearmost is one's own self
Phrase: priya-tama (dearmost) + sva-ātmā (own self). Same priya-tama as verse 52, now properly located. The body was a substitute; the ātmā is the original. The next verse identifies that ātmā as Kṛṣṇa.
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sakalam jagat
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the entire world
Phrase: sakala (entire) + jagat (world). Universal scope. Every act in the world is, on this analysis, ātma-tarpaṇa — pleasing of the ātmā. The Gauḍīya conclusion: rightly understood, everything is for Kṛṣṇa.
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tat-artham eva
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for the sake of that alone
Phrase: tat (that) + artha (purpose) + eva (alone). Single-purpose grammar. Everything exists ONLY for the sake of pleasing the ātmā. Once the ātmā is identified with Kṛṣṇa, the verse becomes the Gauḍīya doctrine of kṛṣṇa-pratiṣṭhā: everything for Kṛṣṇa alone.
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cara-acaram
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moving and non-moving
Compound: cara (moving) + acara (non-moving). The standard Bhāgavata totality-phrase. Plants, stones, rivers, animals, humans, demigods — every variety is in the ātma-tarpaṇa system. Verse 56 will quote it back.
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dehinām
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of embodied beings
Genitive plural — same as verse 51. The chapter circles back to dehinām to mark its rhetorical span: from the body-identified to the Kṛṣṇa-identified. The same word; different referent.
The word carācaram indicates moving living entities, such as animals, and nonmoving living entities, such as trees. Or the word may also refer to moving possessions, such as one’s family and pets, and nonmoving possessions, such as one’s house and household paraphernalia.
Therefore one can conclude that ones own soul is more dear than others’ souls. For the benefit of ones soul, one holds other entities such as sons and objects such as house as somewhat dear.
The word cara refers to the body and sons etc. Acara refers to house and other possessions. One thinks of everything in the world in relation to oneself. By that, everything becomes an object of pleasure for the self.
- Whose 'self' is most centrally served by my home and possessions right now?
- What would my arrangements look like if Kṛṣṇa, the true Self, were the one being satisfied?
The sun is loved by every plant — not for the sun's sake but for the seed's. The whole cosmos, moving and unmoving, exists to please some ātmā or another; therefore every motion in the world is, secretly, the ātmā's self-pleasing. Hold the conclusion. Verse 55 will reveal: Kṛṣṇa is that ātmā. The whole world has been turning toward Him without knowing.
My note
Source: vedabase.io