Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.25.14
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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bhagavān
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the Supreme Personality of Godhead
The title appears just as Kṛṣṇa moves from observer to actor. Gauḍīyas note the Bhāgavata's discipline: the word bhagavān is sprinkled at precisely the moments when the cowherd boy is about to perform aiśvarya from within mādhurya.
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hariḥ
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Lord Hari
From √hṛ — He who takes away (sins, distress, the heart). The exact name needed here: hari literally means 'remover' and the next verses will see Him remove Vraja's distress by lifting Govardhana.
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nirīkṣya
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seeing
From nir + √īkṣ — to look attentively, to perceive. Kṛṣṇa's glance is itself the first act of protection; in Brahma-saṁhitā 5.45 His glance is what gives existence to everything. Here, that glance simply marks: the storm is now His business.
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acetanam
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unconscious
a + cetana (consciousness). Vraja is rendered without consciousness by Indra's blow — and Bhagavān is the only source of cetana to begin with (cf. Kaṭha 2.2.13, nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām). The crisis is exactly His domain.
Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura explains that the severe distress Indra apparently inflicted upon the residents of Vṛndāvana was an arrangement made by Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s pastime potency to enhance the loving dealings between the residents and the Lord. The ācārya gives the analogy that for a hungry person, the pain of hunger increases the happiness he feels when he finally eats excellent food, and thus hunger can be said to enhance the pleasure of eating. Similarly, the residents of Vṛndāvana, although not experiencing ordinary, material anxiety, felt a type of distress at the activities of Indra and thus intensified their meditation on Kṛṣṇa. When the Lord finally acted, the result was wonderful.
Even before getting information that the rain was created by Indra, Krsna could understand that Indra was responsible. The difficulties of Krsna’s eternal devotees was manifest before him through the lilasakti for the purpose of tasting with complete satisfaction the sweetness of prema. It is like the hunger pangs when a person is very hungry. When one finally gets food and is satisfied, the hunger pangs are also a type of happiness.
The people were being beaten by strong winds loaded with rain and hail. Another version has śilā-varṣa-nipātena. Gokula became almost unconscious because of this. Kṛṣṇa surmised that it was the work of Indra.
Directly seeing (nirīkṣya) the people afflicted with fainting (acetanam), Kṛṣṇa understood (mene) since he is omniscient (bhagavān) and capable of destroying all faults and suffering (hariḥ). By lifting Govardhana he would destroy Indra’s pride and destroy the people’s suffering.
- Which current distress might be sharpening a future joy I cannot yet see?
- Where am I refusing to let distress do its sharpening?
Kṛṣṇa looks at His own people — unconscious, hammered by hail and wind — and recognizes the storm's signature. The same boy who heard Pūtanā's milk over His mother's lullaby reads weather like a letter; the hand that wrote this letter is His to answer.
My note
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