Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.38.35
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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bhagavat
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the Supreme Personality of Godhead
Bhagavat — bearing the six opulences. Gauḍīyas hold tightly to this specific term against impersonalist substitutions. Even the moment of speechlessness is named with the most fully-personal title.
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āhlāda
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due to the joy
Returning from v.26 — the same hlādinī-rooted joy, now intensified by direct darśana rather than darśana of footprints. Gauḍīyas note the deliberate echo: the chapter measures Akrūra's ascent by re-using its key word at higher intensity.
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bāṣpa
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with tears
Vapor, tears. The sāttvika-bhāva of aśru, returning. Gauḍīyas regard the persistent flow of bhakti-tears (not occasional welling) as a marker of bhāva matured into something more permanent.
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pulaka
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with eruptions, with horripilation
The standing-up of hairs, one of the eight sāttvika-bhāvas of bhakti-rasa. Gauḍīyas hold pulaka as a particularly reliable index — it is involuntary, immediate, and visible. Rūpa Gosvāmī enumerates it among the prime symptoms.
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autkaṇṭhyāt
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from eagerness
From utkaṇṭhā — longing, eagerness. A specific rasa-vocabulary term: the longing of separation or anticipation. Gauḍīyas treasure utkaṇṭhā as a precondition for darśana; without it, even the meeting is shallow.
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sva - ākhyāne
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to announce himself
Compound: sva (own) + ākhyāna (announcement, declaration). The conventional self-introduction Akrūra cannot perform. Gauḍīyas read this as a quiet teaching: the bhakta meets Bhagavān not by introducing himself but by being read.
Akrura could not introduce himself properly, saying, "I, Akrura, offer my respects to you."
The results of his prema are described. Because his eyes were filled with tears, he could not see at all. Autkaṇṭhyāt literally means “because of throat from which sounds have departed.” Because he was voiceless he could not announce himself, what to speak explain why he was there.
The cause of only offering respects on the ground because of intense prema is described. This indicates the extent of his prema. He had profuse tears in his eyes so that he could not see. His hairs stood on end profusely because of the lack of control produced by prema. He could not speak, what to speak of offering respects properly. Hi means certainly. O king! This expresses Akrūra’s good fortune or he comforts Parīkṣit who is overcome with prema on hearing of Akrūra’s great prema.
- Where do you fill silence with introductions instead of letting His presence work?
- Could speechlessness be a more honest form of prayer than fluency?
A man who has prepared an entire speech finds, when the moment arrives, that the speech has dissolved — his eyes do the talking, his stood-up hairs introduce him. Bhakti's apex is paradoxically wordless; the body, finally, becomes more eloquent than the tongue.
My note
Source: vedabase.io