• antarhitam — disappeared
  Past participle of antar + √dhā — to place within, to conceal. The form is not destroyed; it is folded back inside Bhagavān. The same root-field appears whenever a Viṣṇu-darśana closes (e.g. after Dhruva's tapasya).
• vismitaḥ — astonished
  Past participle of vi + √smi. Vismaya is the sthāyī-bhāva of adbhuta-rasa — the proper response to aiśvarya-darśana. Akrūra is the Bhāgavatam's model of dāsya tinged with adbhuta.
• āvaśyakam — the prescribed duties
  From ava + √vaś — what must be done. Even after seeing Nārāyaṇa in the water, Akrūra completes his sandhyā. Gauḍīya doctrine: bhakti does not annul vidhi for the householder; it transfigures it.
• satvaraḥ — quickly
  sa + tvara — with haste. The urgency of one who has tasted darśana and now hurries back to Kṛṣṇa's physical proximity. Aiśvarya glimpsed in the water is not the prize; the Person on the chariot is.
• ratham — to the chariot
  Accusative of ratha. The chariot is where Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma are bodily present — the focal point of the chapter's geography. Akrūra's instinct: return to where Bhagavān actually sits.

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• After a peak moment, do you complete the usual duties or skip them?
• Where could ritual carry forward an experience your emotion alone cannot hold?

Akrūra surfaces from the Yamunā the way one wakes from a dream that was more real than waking — and yet, like any twice-born, he finishes his āhnika first. The vision did not abolish the duty; it sanctified it.