• govindam — to Lord Govinda
  go (cow, earth, senses) + vinda (one who finds, pleases). The name names exactly the function the moment requires — Govinda is by definition the protector of cows. The Brahma-saṁhitā opens with this name; here it walks into history.
• śaraṇam — for shelter
  From √śri — to take refuge. The doctrinal heart of the chapter. Gauḍīya śaraṇāgati has six limbs (Hari-bhakti-vilāsa) — Vraja here performs all six in one move: trust, surrender of self, abandonment of other shelters, humility.
• jāta - vepanāḥ — trembling
  jāta (arisen) + vepana (trembling). The first of the eight sāttvika-bhāvas in Rūpa Gosvāmī's catalogue. Even physical shivering in the storm bends, in Vraja, toward the rasa-shastra's vocabulary of ecstatic devotion.
• ārtāḥ — distressed
  From √ṛ — afflicted. Bg 7.16 names the ārta as one of the four kinds who approach Kṛṣṇa. The gopas of Vraja, normally in śuddha-prema, approach as ārta only for the duration of one storm — a single rasa-shift Kṛṣṇa permits to display protection.

• Whom in my community do I approach in distress, and is it Govinda?
• Where am I shivering alone when together-approach is the natural move?

The cows tremble, the gopīs press cold hands to their faces, the gopas look at one another — and every body in Vraja moves the same direction: toward Govinda. Distress is the great convergence; when the storm hits, there is only one foot the village's eyes can find.