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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.26.19

एष व: श्रेय आधास्यद् गोपगोकुलनन्दन: । अनेन सर्वदुर्गाणि यूयमञ्जस्तरिष्यथ ॥ १९ ॥
eṣa vaḥ śreya ādhāsyad
[esha vah shreya aadhaasyad]
gopa-gokula-nandanaḥ
[gopa-gokula-nandanah]
anena sarva-durgāṇi
[anena sarva-durgaani]
yūyam añjas tariṣyatha
[yooyam anjas tarishyatha]
eṣaḥ — this child vaḥ — for all of you people śreyaḥ ādhāsyat — will act all-auspiciously gopa - gokula - nandanaḥ — just like a cowherd boy born in a family of cowherd men as the son of the estate of Gokula anena — by Him sarva - durgāṇi — all kinds of miserable conditions yūyam — all of you añjaḥ — easily tariṣyatha — will overcome .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
eṣa vaḥ śreya ādhāsyad
eṣaḥ
this child
vaḥ
for all of you people
śreyaḥ ādhāsyat
will act all-auspiciously
gopa-gokula-nandanaḥ
gopa - gokula - nandanaḥ
just like a cowherd boy born in a family of cowherd men as the son of the estate of Gokula
anena
by Him
anena sarva-durgāṇi
sarva - durgāṇi
all kinds of miserable conditions
yūyam añjas tariṣyatha
yūyam
all of you
añjaḥ
easily
tariṣyatha
will overcome .
  • gopa-gokula-nandanaḥ — just like a cowherd boy born in a family of cowherd men as the son of the estate of Gokula
    Compound: gopa (cowherd) + gokula (the cow-settlement) + nandana (joy-giver, son). Three names of Kṛṣṇa's role in Vraja braided together. Garga refuses to abstract Him from His pastoral identity — He is divine as Gokula's boy.
  • śreyaḥ-ādhāsyat — will act all-auspiciously
    Śreyas (auspiciousness, the highest good) + ādhāsyat (will bestow, future of ā + √dhā). Gauḻīyas distinguish śreyas (eternal welfare) from preyas (temporal pleasure) — Kṛṣṇa's gift to Vraja is the former, embedded in the latter.
  • sarva-durgāṇi — all kinds of miserable conditions
    Sarva (all) + durga (difficult-to-cross). Durga is Bhāgavatam's word for the obstacles of saṁsāra; Garga promises these will not stop the Vraja-vāsīs because Kṛṣṇa is among them. The promise is fulfilled at Govardhana itself.
  • tariṣyatha — will overcome
    Future of √tṛ — to cross over. Tāraka-mantra, tāraka-brahma — crossing is the Bhāgavatam's image for liberation. Garga embeds the soteriological verb inside a domestic blessing.
  • añjaḥ — easily
    Añjas — directly, without difficulty. Vraja-bhakti's gift: what yogīs labor for is given to the gopas añjas, simply by proximity to Kṛṣṇa. Gauḻīyas treat this as the chapter's quiet doctrinal jewel.
To increase the transcendental bliss of the cowherd men of Gokula, this child will always act auspiciously for you. And by His grace only, you will surpass all difficulties.
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
To increase the transcendental bliss of the cowherd men of Gokula, this child will always act auspiciously for you. And by His grace only, you will surpass all difficulties.
Related values
Anahankarah (Freedom from False Ego)Asteya (Non-stealing / Honesty)Aparigraha (Non-possessiveness)
Related verses
'This child will always act auspiciously for you; by His grace alone you will surpass all difficulties.' Difficulties remain; what changes is who passes through them with you. Promise is companionship, not absence of trouble.
Reflection Questions
  • Where am I waiting for difficulties to end when the promise is passage through them with Him?
  • What current difficulty could I redefine as a passage rather than a stop?

A king's son comes incognito to a poor village and lives there as one of them; while He stays, every drought breaks, every famine ends, every band of robbers turns aside at the road. The gopas have been living inside that anomaly without naming it; Garga is now naming it.

Sudāmā's house enriched

Decades later, Sudāmā the brāhmaṇa friend of Kṛṣṇa visited Dvārakā with a handful of flat rice (SB 10.80-81). He asked nothing. When he returned home, his hut had become a palace — his wife and children dressed in silks, food in every vessel.

Gauḻīyas teach that Kṛṣṇa's auspiciousness is automatic in His presence — gopa-gokula-nandana, the joy of Gokula, is the same auspiciousness that later overflowed Sudāmā's house. Garga's prediction has been quietly fulfilling itself in Vraja for seven years.

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