Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.51.61
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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vicarasva
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wander
Imperative of vi-√car. Same root as verse 27 (Bhagavān walking on the cave's thorny floor). The freedom to wander, once Bhagavān's alone, is now the bhakta's. Bhagavān's prerogatives become the bhakta's after surrender.
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mayi-āveśita-mānasaḥ
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with mind fixed in Me
Phrase: mayi (in Me) + āveśita (fixed) + mānasaḥ (mind). The technical Bhāgavata phrase for ekāgra-cit. Gauḍīyas read āveśa as the bhakti-form of samādhi — not absorbing-into-Brahman, but absorbing-into-Kṛṣṇa-as-Person.
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bhaktiḥ
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devotion
From √bhaj — to share, partake. The Bhāgavata's central virtue. Bhagavān names what He grants by its proper name — bhakti, not jñāna or yoga or mokṣa. Mucukunda's path is named, not generic.
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anapāyinī
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unfailing
From an (not) + apāyinī (going away). Devotion that does not desert. Gauḍīyas treasure this adjective: nitya bhakti, never lost. The opposite of the vāsanā that re-rises (verse 60); bhakti, once granted, anapāyinī.
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nityadā
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always
From nitya — eternal. Echoes anapāyinī. Bhagavān is doubling the eternity-language: 'always, unfailing.' The verse is Kṛṣṇa's promise-grammar at its strongest.
I have already given you pure bhakti, but today I am giving it to you again.
You will be successful. With your mind absorbed in me, wander as you will, since you will have unfailing bhakti to me at all times. Another version has yathāsti. This means tathāsti.
“How can I develop bhakti?” Fix your mind on me at your will (kāmam), serving my lotus feet. Wander in a special manner (vicarasva), alone or associating with devotee, chanting my name. You will have causeless or continuous bhakti (anapāyinī) since your devotion is exclusive. Another version has astu. This is a blessing since pure bhakti is very rare, especially while wandering about.
- Where could you 'wander at will' while keeping your mind fixed?
- What in your fixed routines might actually be flexible if mind stayed centered?
Kṛṣṇa hands Mucukunda his vocation: 'Wander the earth at will, your mind fixed on Me; may your devotion to Me be unfailing.' The kṣatriya-asleep is now bhakta-awake, given license to move freely on the planet because his interior is fixed.
Nārada Muni, by Bhagavān's own grant, wanders the three worlds — earth, heaven, and the in-between — with his vīṇā, perpetually chanting Hari's names (SB 1.6, 1.9). His itinerary is governed only by his own choice, because his mind is fixed on the Lord. Wandering with mind fixed is one of bhakti's signature gifts.
Mucukunda receives the same charter in this verse. The Bhāgavata's geography is generous: the bhakta is free to go anywhere because nowhere is alien to Bhagavān. The earth has been re-mapped around the Person.
My note
Source: vedabase.io