Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.39.41
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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nimajjya
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having immersed (himself)
Ni + √majj — to dive in. Akrūra goes fully under. Gauḍīya purport: the bhakta who immerses fully (not half-measure) gets full darśana. Surface ablution gives surface result.
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brahma sanātanam
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the eternal Brahman / Vedic mantras
Double-read: brahma = the Vedic mantras (śabda-brahma) or = the supreme Brahman (Kṛṣṇa Himself). Akrūra recites the eternal mantras and the eternal Brahman they name appears before him — the śāstra's promise made literal.
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dadṛśe
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he saw
Aorist passive of √dṛś. The verb of darśana — the chapter's two halves are both darśana stories: v.1 Kṛṣṇa-sees-Akrūra at Nanda's house, v.41 Akrūra-sees-Kṛṣṇa in the river. Mutuality of seeing.
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rāma - kṛṣṇau samanvitau
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Rāma and Kṛṣṇa together (united)
Sam-anvitau = jointly accompanied. The dual form again — Rāma-Kṛṣṇa as inseparable principle. Whatever Akrūra is about to see will not be Kṛṣṇa alone but the Saṅkarṣaṇa-Bhagavān pair.
In Vraja, Akrura saw a form more astonishing than the one that he meditated on with his mantra. He became fixed in that form. However, as he gave up that source of the gopis sweet words and became fixed on the ancient vedic mantra, Krsna therefore showed him Vaikuntha.
He chanted eternal Vedic mantras because of his strong bhakti. He saw the two together as before.
Immersing himself in the water he came out. He recited the eternal aghamarṣaṇa mantra according to some. It was necessary to chant this mantra. Or he chanted the gāyatrī, since it is the original mantra, the mother of the Vedas. Or he chanted mantras which were eternal because they were equal to Viṣṇu who is eternal, having arisen from him. vedo nārāyaṇaḥ sākṣāt svayaṁbhūr iti śuśrumaḥ: The Vedas are directly Nārāyaṇa and are born from him. This we have heard from Yamarāja. (SB 6.1.40) Or he chanted the name of bhagavān, who is eternal Brahman. The two whom he took permission from and who were seated on the chariot, were present there together with him (samanvitau) or mixed together like a mirror and reflected object in the water.
- Where are you skipping recitation that might be the very doorway to vision?
- What discipline of yours has secretly been the threshold of grace?
Like a deep-sea diver who, looking up through the surface, suddenly sees the two figures he just left standing on the shore now beneath him in the water — Akrūra, immersed and reciting the eternal Vedic mantras, sees Balarāma and Kṛṣṇa right there before him in the river. The vision begins.
My note
Source: vedabase.io