Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.46.38
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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mātā
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mother
Nominative of mātṛ. Uddhava says: tattva-wise, Bhagavān has no mother. He says this in front of the woman whose breast-milk overflowed for her son fifteen verses ago. The audacity of the chapter: tattva offered in vātsalya's parlor, without abolishing the parlor.
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pitā
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father
Nominative of pitṛ. Same point — no father in tattva. Nanda, who has just spent twelve verses being a father, hears that he is not, in tattva, anyone's father. Gauḍīya tradition reads Nanda's calm reception as itself proof that vraja-bhāva is unshakable by tattva — bhāva swallows tattva and grows fatter.
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bhāryā
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wife
Nominative of bhāryā. No wife — though He has Rukmiṇī, Satyabhāmā, and the 16,108 queens by SB 10.83. The denial is at the level of essence; the multiplicities at the level of līlā. Gauḍīya: the gopīs are not denied here; they were never bhāryā in the laukika sense.
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suta - ādayaḥ
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children and so forth
Compound: suta (sons) + ādi (and the rest — daughters, grandchildren). No descendants in tattva. Yet by SB 10.61 the children of His sons fill Dvārakā. The verse's denials operate strictly in the dimension where they apply.
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ātmīyaḥ
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related to Himself
From ātma + īya — 'one belonging to oneself.' No relation, no outsider. Gauḍīya: the universal-bhakti corollary — every being is equally His and equally not-His; the apparent contradiction is the doctrine.
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dehaḥ
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body
Nominative of deha. No body — in the sense of a material, karma-acquired body. Gauḍīya doctrine: Kṛṣṇa's deha is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha, not a deha in the dehātma-buddhi sense. The denial here protects the right ontology.
No one is a mother, father or son to the Lord because the body arises from their bodies. No one is a wife to the Lord because of marriage. No one is a relative of the Lord because of blood relation or marriage. No one is an enemy to the Lord because of lack of blood relation or marriage. Since his body and self are the same, he does not have a body caused by identifying his body as the self. He does not take birth like others who accept material bodies, what to speak of taking a body, since he is not under the influence of previous karmas.
No one is a friend (ātmīyaḥ) or enemy (paraḥ) because he is equal to all. He has no physical relationships such as mother and father or wife and sons whom he should protect. In his avatāra form of Varāha, his son was Naraka. Kṛṣṇa killed Naraka. Adayaḥ means brothers and other male relatives. He has no material birth or material body, or material action (next verse).
- Where do you locate Kṛṣṇa primarily in biological categories that don't apply?
- How does His freedom from family enrich rather than contradict His chosen family roles?
He has no mother, no father, no wife, no children — and yet He is in Yaśodā's arms, Vasudeva's son, Rukmiṇī's husband. The verse states tattva at the level where biography seems impossible; the chapter trusts the listener to hold tattva and līlā at once. Gauḍīya doctrine of acintya-bhedābheda in operation.
My note
Source: vedabase.io