Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.40.27
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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kṛpaṇa-dhīḥ
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of crippled intelligence
Compound: kṛpaṇa (miserly, weak) + dhī (intelligence). Gauḍīyas tie kṛpaṇa to the opposite of brāhmaṇa-buddhi — the miserly mind that hoards perishable goods. Akrūra confesses this is his actual condition.
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kāma-karma-hatam
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battered by desire and action
Compound: kāma (desire) + karma (action) + hata (struck). The mind as a battered thing — the two-stroke hammer of wanting and doing. The phrase compresses Gītā 3.39's analysis of kāma as the eternal enemy of the jīva.
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pramāthibhiḥ
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by the disturbers (the senses)
From pra + √math — those who churn and disturb. The senses named not by what they are but by what they do — they agitate the mind. Gītā 6.34's pramāthi (cañcalaṁ hi manaḥ kṛṣṇa pramāthi) uses the same root. Akrūra is borrowing Arjuna's vocabulary of incapacity to set up his śaraṇāgati.
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hriyamāṇam itaḥ tataḥ
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dragged here and there
Passive participle of √hṛ + itaḥ tataḥ (hither and thither). The defining motion of saṁsāra — not progress, but drift. Sets up verse 28's surrender as the only way to stop the drift.
Lacking intelligence (krpanah dhih), I cannot stop the foolish mind pulled by the strong (pramathibhih) senses (aksaih).
I cannot control my mind tormented by actions instigated by previous impressions and pulled by the eye and other senses which give trouble because of contacting material objects.
Though I am your devotee, I am in a fallen condition. Or though I know all this, I am in this condition. Kāma is desire for enjoyment. Karma is its cause. My mind struggling with desire and karma, is pulled everywhere for sense objects (itas tataḥ).
- Where could honest confession of inability invite Kṛṣṇa's help more than your effort can?
- What sense is most stubbornly dragging your mind off course?
A weakened driver, reins worn through, sits behind six wild horses — kāma, krodha, lobha, moha, mada, mātsarya — and is dragged wherever they bolt. The mind itself is one of the horses; the senses are five more. Akrūra confesses he has no strength of his own to hold them. The cry of verse 28 follows from this admission.
In Gītā 6.34, Arjuna says: cañcalaṁ hi manaḥ kṛṣṇa pramāthi balavad dṛḍham — the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, obstinate. He calls it harder to restrain than the wind.
Kṛṣṇa replies that constant practice and detachment work — but Akrūra in verse 27 takes the alternative route Kṛṣṇa also offers (Gītā 6.47, 9.34, 18.66): not self-effort but śaraṇāgati. The next verse will name it.
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