Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.44.48
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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prabhava - apyayaḥ
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source of appearance and disappearance
Compound: prabhava (origination) + apyaya (dissolution). The Bhāgavatam's standard creation-dissolution compound. Cf. SB 1.1.1 (janmādy asya yataḥ) — same doctrine. Kṛṣṇa is named here with the exact Vedānta-sūtra formula. From the widows' mouth.
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goptā
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protector, maintainer
From √gup (to protect). The middle term — between origination and dissolution. The three-fold sṛṣṭi-sthiti-laya is invoked in two words: prabhava-apyaya at the ends, goptā in the middle. Compact śāstra.
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avadhyāyī
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one who disrespects
From ava + √dhyai (to think badly of). The Bhāgavatam-specific word for the offender — one whose meditation is downward toward dismissal. Cf. BG 9.11 (avajānanti māṁ mūḍhāḥ). The widows are diagnosing Kaṁsa with the canonical category.
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na kvacit sukham edhate
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never prospers in happiness
Idiomatic: na kvacit (never) + sukham (happiness) + edhate (grows). The verse closes with an aphorism. Cf. BG 6.40 (na hi kalyāṇa-kṛt kaścid durgatiṁ tāta gacchati) — the inverse: the well-doer never reaches misfortune. The widows speak the negative form.
"He (esah), Krsna is the source of all living entities (prabhava), and all entities enter into him (apyaya). Those who disrespect him (tad avadhyayi), cannot attain happiness."
A person who disrespects Kṛṣṇa cannot flourish happily in this life and the next (kvacit), what to speak of a person who attacks him. Rather he withers away with suffering. This is spoken from the point of view of criticizing Kaṁsa, without seeing how Kṛṣṇa’s nature is to give ultimate happiness to even such evil persons.
“For a king it is necessary to commit violence against his enemies.” Hi means he certainly or he alone. He is certainly or alone (hi) the creator and destroyer as well as the maintainer (goptā). This means he is the supreme Lord. Maintenance is mentioned last because at this time he has appeared in the world for protection. It is a great sin to commit violence to persons he protects, as he is the protector of the world. The person who disrespects him (avadhyāyī) or commits violence to him cannot attain happiness, even by offending only once, what to speak of offending him because of one’s nature. Avadhyāyī indicates that the person has a character of disrespecting others. He does not prosper happily (sukham edhate). He continually dwindles with suffering. With fear in life, one never attains happiness. In death, one also does not attain happiness (kvacit). Liberation is the only way to have absence of suffering.
- Where do you organize your life as if Kṛṣṇa weren't the Maintainer?
- What disrespect — small, daily — might be foreclosing happiness you can't quite locate?
Kṛṣṇa is the source, maintainer, and dissolver of all beings — and whoever disrespects Him cannot prosper. The widows, in their grief, accidentally state the central doctrine of the chapter, the canto, the Purāṇa. Lament becomes śāstra. The Bhāgavatam loves these slips of sorrow into truth.
After the Mahābhārata war, Queen Kuntī praises Kṛṣṇa with a long lament that becomes one of the most quoted stutis in the Bhāgavatam. Her tears are her teaching; her grief enunciates the doctrine that Bhagavān is the only refuge.
The widows of Kaṁsa, on the other side of the same Lord's killing-power, speak the same doctrine in compressed form. Gauḍīyas read these two laments as paired — Kuntī from the side of bhakti, the widows from the side of having missed Him. Both arrive, by grief, at the same line.
My note
Source: vedabase.io