Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.58.8
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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prema
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of love
The technical Gauḍīya term for the highest rasa-stage. In Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu prema is bhāva matured into total identification with the beloved's welfare. Kuntī's throat closes because prema has saturated the body's capacity to hold it.
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vaiklavya
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due to the distress
From vi + √klam — overwhelm. Vaiklavya is also a sañcārī-bhāva in rasa-śāstra: the breakdown of composure under prema's force. Not weakness but the bhakta-body's correct response.
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ruddha
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choking
Past participle of √rudh — obstructed. The throat is the meeting place of voice and breath; when prema fills it, both stall. Gauḍīyas catalogue gadgada (choked voice) as one of the eight sāttvika-bhāvas — visible proof of inner bhāva.
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kleśa
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of distress
The afflictions of conditioned life. Yoga-sūtra lists five; Bhāgavatam answers with one cure: smaraṇa of Kṛṣṇa. Kuntī's whole prayer that follows turns on this word — calamity recalled is calamity defeated.
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ātma
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of the self
In the compound ātma-darśanam — the showing of Himself. Gauḍīyas read ātma here as Bhagavān (paramātma), not the impersonal self; the Lord drives away kleśa by showing His own form.
She spoke to Krsna, the sight of whose limbs extinguishes all misery.
Remembering the many famous sufferings, such as Duryodhana administering poison, she was overcome with prema and then spoke to Kṛṣṇa. On seeing him a person destroys suffering in the heart, or who shows himself to destroy the devotees’ suffering. In either case this description is an affectionate scolding of the Lord by Śukadeva on remembering the Pāṇḍavas’ suffering. Actually, their suffering was created by the līlā-śakti with its variety of movements in order to increase the sthāyi-bhāva through the vyabhicāri-bhāvas like anticipated joy. Remembering those many sufferings, her suffering disappeared because Kṛṣṇa then appeared within her mind. Thus by remembering she was overcome with prema.
Remembering the many famous sufferings of the relatives (kleśān), such as Duryodhana administering poison to Bhīma, with arousal of a feeling of helplessness, she was overcome with prema and then spoke to Kṛṣṇa. He now showed himself, not during the suffering but when they had attained a kingdom, after the destruction of suffering (kleśāpāyātma-darśanam). Or by showing himself, now no more suffering would occur in the future. She became joyful.
- Where do you address Kṛṣṇa from a composed place rather than after tears?
- How does vulnerability open prayer?
When a long-held breath at last finds release, the throat itself catches and the eyes overflow before any speech. Kuntī's pause before her prayer is the body acknowledging what the words will only approach.
My note
Source: vedabase.io