Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.48.25
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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adhokṣaja
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O You who are beyond the senses' purview
Compound: adhaḥ (below) + akṣa (sense) + ja (born — i.e., He before whom sense-perception falls down). One of Bhagavān's classical names; reminds the worshiper that even when seated in his lap, the Lord is not graspable by senses but only by surrender.
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jagat-guruḥ
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spiritual master of the universe
Compound: jagat (universe) + guru (teacher). Every guru in every paramparā is a transmitter; only Bhagavān is jagat-guru — the original source from whom guru-tva descends. Gauḍīyas read Kṛṣṇa Himself as the ādi-guru.
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pāda-śauca-salilam
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the water that washes (Your) feet
Compound: pāda (foot) + śauca (cleansing) + salila (water). The technical phrase for caraṇa-amṛta — foot-water as prasāda. Akrūra makes the doctrinal claim: that water purifies tri-jagat. Not the temple's water, not the Ganges generically — water that touched these feet.
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sarva-deva-pitṛ-bhūta-nṛ-deva-mūrtiḥ
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embodying demigods, forefathers, creatures, men, and gods
Compound: sarva-deva + pitṛ + bhūta + nṛ + deva + mūrti. A five-tier inclusion: every category of conscious being finds its source-form in Bhagavān. Gauḍīyas read this as the universal-form (viśvarūpa) compressed into one epithet.
Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī has nicely interpreted Akrūra’s feelings as follows: Akrūra said, “My Lord, although I am a householder, today my home has become more pious than the forests where sages perform austerities. Why? Simply because You have entered my home. Indeed, You are the personification of the deities who preside over the five sacrifices a householder must perform daily to atone for unavoidable violence committed to living beings in the home. You are the spiritual truth behind all these creations, and now You have entered my home.” The five daily sacrifices enjoined for a householder are (1) sacrifice to Brahman by studying the Vedas, (2) sacrifice to the forefathers by making offerings to them, (3) sacrifice to all creatures by putting aside a portion of one’s meals, (4) sacrifice to human beings by extending hospitality and (5) sacrifice to the demigods by performing fire sacrifices and so on.
"Our house which you, the Supreme Lord, and as well the embodiment of pitras, bhutas, human and devas, have entered has become blessed."
I am the special object of your mercy among the Yadus. O Lord of all beings! We (our houses) are more fortunate than Bali and other devotees because in you exist all devas, Pitṛs, kings and other entities when you appeared as your expansion Yajña. Appearing as your expansion Vāmana, your foot water purifies the three worlds. You are greater (guru) than all universes and all your expansions (avatāras) and you have entered my houses (yāḥ). The plural is used to indicate that Kṛṣṇa not only entered Akrūra’s house but the houses of many Yadus. Since you are guru of the universe you know everything (adhokṣaja).
I am constantly receiving your mercy. O lord of the universe, most rare (iśa)! You embody all the devatās. You are the conclusion of all debts to them. You are all sacred places for all who living this world. You are the guru of the universe. This means you are Nārāyaṇa. You rule Vaikuṇṭha. You came back to life under the axel of the cart (adhokṣaja). You live in Gokula.
- What 'visit' could similarly reframe your home?
- Where do you under-celebrate the Lord's arrival in your space?
When the Ganges enters a courtyard, the courtyard becomes a tīrtha. Kṛṣṇa's foot-touched water purifies the three worlds; that very water now sits on Akrūra's threshold. He is not exaggerating when he calls his house bhūri-bhāgāḥ — the Ganges has come home with Him.
When Vāmanadeva took His second step across the cosmos (SB 8.21), Brahmā washed His foot, and the water that fell became the Ganges — caraṇa-gaṅgā, foot-born. That same purifying water purifies the three worlds today.
Akrūra is invoking exactly this lineage. The pāda-śauca-salila he poured on his own head in v. 15 belongs to the same stream that has always flowed from Bhagavān's foot. Gauḍīyas read every tīrtha as a downstream branch of that one source.
My note
Source: vedabase.io