Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.48.1
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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sarva-ātmā
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the Soul of all that be
Compound: sarva (all) + ātmā (Self). Kṛṣṇa is not visiting Trivakrā as a separate guest; as antaryāmī He already knows the burning in her chest before He knocks. The visit is the outward form of an inward seeing.
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sarva-darśanaḥ
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the seer of everything
He misses no offering — not the gopīs' sweat, not Sudāmā's flat rice, not Trivakrā's sandalwood pulp. Gauḍīyas read this epithet as the doctrinal ground of the Lord's kṛta-jña-tā: grateful response is built into His nature.
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priyam
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the satisfaction (of her)
Kāma-tāpa is real suffering, even if the kāma is misplaced. Kṛṣṇa moves to relieve it. The Lord meets each devotee at the rung she stands on; He does not lecture from above.
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vijñāya
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understanding (Uddhava's report)
From vi + √jñā. Even the omniscient Lord performs the līlā of listening — He receives Uddhava's news from Vraja before turning to His Mathurā duties. Hearing is not redundant for Bhagavān; it is part of the relationship.
This text gives an interesting insight into the Lord’s pastimes. The first line says, atha vijñnāya bhagavān: “Thus the Lord, understanding [Uddhava’s report], …” The second line states that Lord Kṛṣṇa is the Soul of everything ( sarvātmā ) and the seer of everything ( sarva-darśanaḥ ). In other words, although He certainly does not depend on spoken reports from messengers, He plays the part of a human being and listens to news from a messenger — not out of need, as we would do, but in the bliss of His spiritual pastimes, exchanging love with His pure devotee. The word sarva-darśanaḥ also indicates that the Lord perfectly understood the feelings of the residents of Vraja and was perfectly reciprocating with them within their hearts. Now, in His external pastimes, He desired to bless Śrīmatī Trivakrā, who was about to be freed from the disease of material lust.
In this chapter Krsna goes to Kujba’s house to enjoy with her, and goes to Akrura’s house, and after being praised by him, sends him to Hastinapura. Knowing all that Uddhava had told him (vijnana) and having already solved the problem, the supreme lord Bhagavan, who, with supreme powers, though situated in Mathura, in another form went to Vraja, and thus fulfilled all the desires of the people of Vraja because he was the best friend (sarvatma), and who then let Uddhava see his expansion in two forms to relieve Uddhava of anxiety (sarva darsinah), then went to the house of Kubja along with Uddhava to fulfill his promise to her.
O Uddhava! I cannot reject Kubjā. To show that he cannot reject the people of Vraja if he cannot reject Kubjā, he went to her house. I offer respects to Kubjā whom Kṛṣṇa visited with thoughts of giving her mercy and enjoyed without restrictions. After Uddhava returned, after many days (atha) Kṛṣṇa realized with details from Uddhava how his father and others in Vraja had been somewhat pacified, one day he went to the house of Kubjā, who was burning with desire for her own enjoyment. Was Kṛṣṇa full of desire also? No, he was not. He desired to please her. He considered, “She offered cosmetics to please me. Thus I must please her to be free of debt.” How did he know her desires and why did he desire to fulfill them? He should do this since he gives benefit to all as the soul of all beings. Because he sees everything he knew her desires.
I offer respects to Kubjā whom Kṛṣṇa, dear to the city women, controlled by her bhāva, enjoyed with her. Though the people of Vraja were pacified, internally they were not. Remembering his promise to Kubjā, or understanding that she was full of desire, and since he was antaryāmī, the soul of all, and sees everything (sarva-darśanaḥ), he went to her house. She was pained with a desire for pleasure with him (kāma-taptāyaḥ). For all that time she arranged her house and remained waiting for him. He desired to please her (prītam icchan) because he was merciful to the miserable (bhagavān).
- What earlier promise of Kṛṣṇa is He quietly fulfilling in your life that you haven't recognized?
- Where do you assume divine memory is shorter than it actually is?
A king, having received his envoy's report from a distant province, does not file the news and rest — he rises and crosses the city to keep a promise to the lowliest petitioner who once handed him a small flask of oil. So Kṛṣṇa, having heard Uddhava's account of the gopīs' grief, walks straight to Trivakrā's door because a debt of love, however small the donor, is never forgotten by Bhagavān.
In SB 10.42, Kṛṣṇa met Trivakrā (Kubjā) on the road to Kaṁsa's arena. She was deformed in three places and carried the king's sandalwood. Without being asked, she anointed Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma with the pulp, and Kṛṣṇa pressed her toes with His own and lifted her — straightening her body into beauty.
Then He promised: 'After My business is finished, I will come to your house.' Six chapters later, the promise still stands. Bhagavān is sarva-darśanaḥ — He sees every small offering, and He pays.
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