Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.34.11
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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parayā lakṣmyā
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with superior beauty/fortune
Parā lakṣmī = supreme splendor. Lakṣmī here is the visible glow of restored svarūpa. Gauḍīyas read: every jīva's natural lakṣmī is hidden by karma — when bhagavat-sparśa removes the karma, the lakṣmī shines unobstructed.
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adbhuta-darśanaḥ
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of wonderful appearance
Adbhuta = wondrous, miraculous. Darśana = sight, appearance. Even Bhagavān, in līlā-mode, calls the form 'wondrous to behold' — modeling for us how the bhakta delights in another bhakta's restoration.
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jugupsitām
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abhorrent destination/condition
Jugupsita (loathsome, from √gup desiderative) + gati (destination, state of birth). The serpent-life is named 'loathsome' — not by snobbery, but because any life that does not remember Bhagavān is loathsome to the freed soul.
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avaśaḥ
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involuntarily, beyond your own control
A-vaśa = not in one's own control. The diagnostic mark of karma-bound life: birth and form are imposed, not chosen. Bhakti is the only freedom; everything else is avaśa.
How did you get (praptah) this condemned body? It suggests "Who did this?"
Instead adbhūta sometimes śobha is seen. Who are you with such a beautiful or astonishing form? Because of whom or for what reason did you take the form of a snake, though you did not desire it? Why? Vaśa means a wish or power. Otherwise it would be impossible for you to take a form like this.
Instead of adbhūta sometimes śobha is seen. Who are you with such a beautiful or astonishing form? Because of whom or for what reason did you take the form of a snake, though you did not desire it? Why? Vaśa means a wish or power. Otherwise it would be impossible for you to take a form like this. That is the implication of the questions. He also wanted to strengthen the affection of the cowherds who had just seen his display of powers. It also connects the previous and later verses. Or he asks in order to prevent the possibility that beautiful cowherds would offend sages deformed by austerities in Mathurā district.
- If Kṛṣṇa asked you 'who are you?', what would you answer past the labels?
- What 'serpent body' do you most identify with that He could ask you to step out of?
Kṛṣṇa, who already knows everything, asks innocently, 'Who are you?' — like a mother who finds the lost child and, before scolding, asks his name so he can hear it spoken to him by the one who loves him. Bhagavān's questions are always for the questioned, never for Himself.
My note
Source: vedabase.io