Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.41.7
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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vasudeva-sutau
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the two sons of Vasudeva
Dual compound. The villagers along the road do not know Yogamāyā's switch (Yaśodā / Devakī); they see two brothers and are pulled. Gauḍīya reading: the Person is so attractive that even concealed identity does not blunt the magnetic force.
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prītāḥ
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pleased
Past participle of √prī. Prīti is the foundational ingredient of bhakti-rasa (Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 1.4.1). The villagers feel it spontaneously — sahajā prīti, the natural response of the jīva to its source.
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dṛṣṭim
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their vision
Accusative of dṛṣṭi. The eyes have a will of their own when Kṛṣṇa enters the visual field. The Bhāgavatam repeatedly uses this image (gopīs in 10.21, Kunti in 1.8) — bhakti enters first through the eye.
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ādaduḥ
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could take back
Perfect 3rd plural of ā + √dā — to take back. With negation na: they could not take back their gaze. The verb-form is precise: not 'did not' but 'could not' — the eye's autonomy is overridden by darśana.
Having seen Krsna and Balarama, the people on the road could not withdraw their eyes (na adaduh). Seeing them, they remained motionless.
Moreover they proceeded slowly because they wanted to give pleasure to the people on the road. The village people were simple but by nature, they were attracted (prītāḥ) to the two boys. O king! You can understand their nature. Or remembering those people’s affection for Kṛṣṇa, he calls out to the king when pain arises from his prema.
Moreover they proceeded slowly because they wanted to give pleasure to the people on the road. The village people were simple but by nature, they were attracted (prītāḥ) to the two boys. O king! You can understand their nature. Or remembering those people’s affection for Kṛṣṇa, he calls out to the king when pain arose from his prema. At that time, the people gathered on the road to see the sons of Vasudeva (vasudeva-sutau). They became aware at this time of Kṛṣṇa’s birth. Or they watched because of the great beauty, since Kṛṣṇa revealed qualities of bhagavān, though he was his son. Or Vasudeva means the best of Vasus, Nanda.
- Whom in your wider community might be ready to be drawn to Kṛṣṇa if simply shown?
- Where do you under-share the form of Kṛṣṇa that even villagers cannot stop looking at?
A magnet pulls iron filings without speaking. Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma pass through villages and the eyes of the villagers simply will not return — sight is the body's instinctive answer to sākṣād-darśana of Bhagavān.
On the bed of arrows, dying, Bhīṣmadeva fixed his gaze on Kṛṣṇa standing nearby and refused to look away (SB 1.9.32-42). His vision dissolved into Kṛṣṇa's body — eyes that had seen the whole Mahābhārata war could not, in the last hour, turn from this one face.
The villagers along the Mathurā road are an earlier, lighter instance of the same gravitational pull: once Bhagavān is in the field of vision, the eye refuses to surrender Him.
My note
Source: vedabase.io