Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.58.3
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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acyutam
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Kṛṣṇa, the infallible
From a (not) + cyuta (fallen). Kṛṣṇa never falls from His position; embracing Him, the embracer also stops falling. Gauḍīya tradition takes acyuta as the name of the unbreakable shelter — once held, never dropped.
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aṅga
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with His body
The literal body of Bhagavān — sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha. Gauḍīyas reject any reading that treats Kṛṣṇa's form as material māyā. The body that destroys sin by touch must itself be wholly spiritual.
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saṅga
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by the contact
From √sañj. The same word that elsewhere denotes binding attachment here denotes its cure: contact with Kṛṣṇa unsticks every other contact. Sat-saṅga purifies, but aṅga-saṅga with Bhagavān is its source.
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sa - anurāga
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affectionate
Compound sa (with) + anurāga (deep loving attachment). Anurāga is a Gauḍīya technical term — in Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, a stage of prema where the beloved appears ever-new at every moment. Kṛṣṇa's smile carries that bhāva.
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smitam
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smiling
Kṛṣṇa's smile is doctrinally weighted in Gauḍīya texts — Rūpa Gosvāmī catalogues it as a primary ālambana of rasa. One smile of Bhagavān destroys what scriptures-full of penance only promise to weaken.
Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī explains that since the Pāṇḍavas were never sinful, the term enasaḥ here refers to the suffering caused by separation from Kṛṣṇa. That unhappiness was now vanquished by the Lord’s return.
Kṛṣṇa did not deviate from giving the greatest bliss and embracing them for a long time (acyutam). Their sorrow (enasaḥ) was destroyed by his association. Seeing his face they became joyful. His face then smiled with great love for them.
They embraced him because they were the best devotees (vīrāḥ). He also did not fail to embrace them or to give them the highest bliss (acyutam). Or absorbed in embracing them, he did not have them fall from his chest. They became free of saṁsāra or the sorrow caused by it (enasaḥ). Seeing his face they became joyful. His face then smiled with great love for them. Seeing his face smiling with affection they became blissful because of his natural beauty or because of considering his mercy upon them.
- Where do you under-credit embodied embrace as part of devotional purification?
- What smile in His face have you not yet taken in?
A bath in the Yamunā does not merely wash the skin — it reaches what the skin alone cannot touch. The Pāṇḍavas' embrace of Kṛṣṇa is that kind of bath: the touch (aṅga-saṅga) destroys what no penance could.
In SB 10.6, the demoness Pūtanā came to murder the infant Kṛṣṇa with poisoned milk. Yet because she had assumed the form of a mother and offered her breast, Kṛṣṇa accepted the touch and granted her the destination of a nurse.
Gauḍīyas read this as the topmost emblem of aṅga-saṅga-hata-pāpa: even hostile contact, if it brings Him near, destroys sin. The Pāṇḍavas' loving embrace receives the same grace from the affirmative side.
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Source: vedabase.io