Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.58.12
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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vārṣikān
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of the rainy season
From varṣa (rain, year). The four monsoon months — cāturmāsya — are traditionally a period of staying put for sannyāsīs and saints. Even Bhagavān honours the rhythm; the rains slow the world down so that darśana can deepen.
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abhyarthitaḥ
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requested
Past participle of abhi + √arth — entreated. The almighty Lord is moved by request, not necessity. Gauḍīya: He stays because He is asked, not because the rains keep Him. Bhakti's invitation is what holds Him.
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nayana - ānandam
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joy to the eyes
Compound nayana (eyes) + ānanda (bliss). The eye is the bhakta's privileged organ; Kṛṣṇa's form is the eye's true food. Gauḍīyas: cakṣuṣe te darśanaṁ pūrṇam — the eye is completed by His form.
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indraprastha - okasām
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of the residents of Indraprastha
Okasām — dwellers, householders. Not yogīs withdrawing to forests; ordinary citizens of a city receive cāturmāsya-darśana. Gauḍīya: bhakti is for the householder no less than the renunciate.
If possible, the readers of the Bhāgavatam should try to correctly chant the Sanskrit verses, which are exquisitely poetic.
He stayed there happily.
Instead of vibhuḥ sometimes prabhuḥ is seen. Śrīdhara Svāmī accepts prabhuḥ. He was requested by the king to give them happiness by staying for the monsoon season.
Requested in this way (iti), he produced happiness to the eyes for the monsoon months for all the people of Indraprastha, because they could see his beauty. This was because he was able to give joy to the universe (prabhuḥ). Or the reason for the request was that he was the king’s lord (prabhuḥ).
- Where could you ask Kṛṣṇa to stay rather than just to visit?
- What 'rainy season' in your life could His extended presence transform?
When the rains close in and roads turn to mud, even a king stays in one place — and the people of that town receive, for those four months, the privilege of his daily presence. The Bhāgavatam frames the cāturmāsya of Kṛṣṇa in Indraprastha as exactly such a gift.
Caitanya Mahāprabhu spent every cāturmāsya at Jagannātha Purī, and during those four months Gauḍīya devotees from Bengal — Advaita, Nityānanda, Śrīvāsa, Rāghava — would join Him for darśana.
The pattern is older than the Caitanya-līlā: cāturmāsya is when Bhagavān stays in one place and His devotees receive concentrated darśana. Kṛṣṇa's Indraprastha sojourn is the Vedic prototype.
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Source: vedabase.io