Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.37.30
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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śaraṇa-daḥ-satām
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the giver of shelter to the saintly
Śaraṇa (shelter) + da (giver) + sat (saintly). Kṛṣṇa's title in this verse is precisely 'shelter-giver of devotees.' Gauḍīyas treasure śaraṇa-da as the very name of Kṛṣṇa's protective function — He gives śaraṇa, He does not merely permit it.
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vijñāya
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having fully understood
Vi-jñā — to know thoroughly. Kṛṣṇa sees through the disguise. Gauḍīyas read this as the antaryāmin's gaze: the same Lord who is hidden in every heart sees what is hidden in every disguise.
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vṛkam-hariḥ-iva
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like a lion (seizing) a wolf
Vṛka (wolf) + hari (lion) + iva (like). The simile reverses verse 1-2's earlier 'lion' applied to Keśī. Now the lion-comparison goes to Kṛṣṇa, and the wolf goes to the false friend. Gauḍīyas note: the false friend gets the smaller predator-name; the open demon got the larger.
Krsna caught vyomasura just as a lion (hari) attacks a wolf.
Understanding Vyomāsura’s most cruel action (tasya tat karma), Kṛṣṇa, who gives himself as shelter (śarana-daḥ) to all devotees (satām) seized him. What to speak of giving himself to those with rare good fortune among the greatest devotees.
Kṛṣṇa understood the demon’s wicked act. He was the shelter of the devotees. For this reason he wore a cowherd’s dress. Otherwise he could not protect the best devotees, the cowherds. He seized the demon with force (ojasā). The demon resembled a wolf and was thus compared to a wolf in the example.
- Where might Kṛṣṇa be already seizing something on your behalf that you haven't yet recognized?
- How could trusting His vigilance free you from constant self-surveillance?
Kṛṣṇa, who shelters all sādhus, sees through Vyoma's costume the way a lion sees through a wolf's grin. Saṁraṇa-da — He who gives shelter — catches the thief-in-friend's-clothes mid-step and seizes him with the same casual force a lion uses on a wolf.
My note
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