Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.6.24
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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hṛṣīkeśaḥ
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Lord Hṛṣīkeśa, master of the senses
Compound — hṛṣīka (sense) + īśa (lord). The Gītā's own preferred name for Kṛṣṇa in His role as the rightful proprietor of the indriyas. Bhakti as hṛṣīkeṇa hṛṣīkeśa-sevanam (CC) — engaging the senses in their own owner's service.
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nārāyaṇaḥ
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Lord Nārāyaṇa
Compound — nāra (water, beings) + ayana (resting place). The Lord as the abode of all jīvas, and especially as the protector of prāṇa (life-air). Vedic Vaiṣṇavism names Him at the very breath of the body, because life itself is His property.
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śvetadvīpa - patiḥ
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the master of Śvetadvīpa
Compound — śveta (white) + dvīpa (island) + pati (lord). Bhāgavata locates Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu on Śvetadvīpa, the white island of pure devotees. He is invoked to guard the citta (heart's core) because the heart is His personal indwelling-place as Paramātmā.
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yogeśvaraḥ
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Lord Yogeśvara, the master of yoga
Compound — yoga + īśvara. The mind is yoga's battlefield (cf. Gītā 6.34); Yogeśvara is the only authority who can steady it. Gauḍīya reading: not the mind's own techniques, but surrender to Yogeśvara, is what finally fixes manas.
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indriyāṇi
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the senses
Accusative plural of indriya. The senses are entrusted, not denied. The gopīs do not pray for the child's eyes and ears to be shut; they pray for them to be presided over by Hṛṣīkeśa.
The word avatu is repeated because of their anxiety to protect Kṛṣṇa. Similarly pātu is repeated in the next verse for the same reason.
- Before engaging the senses today, silently invoke Hṛṣīkeśa as their true master and offer their use back to Him.
- When fear or agitation grips the heart, call on the Lord of Śvetadvīpa and refuse to let the mind run unguarded.
- Begin the day naming each layer — senses, prāṇa, heart, mind — and place each under Kṛṣṇa's specific protection rather than relying on your own vigilance.
Hṛṣīkeśa guarding the senses, Nārāyaṇa the prāṇas, Śvetadvīpa's Master the heart, Yogeśvara the mind is the four watchmen of a fort, each posted at one of the four gates that an enemy could enter — eye-gate, breath-gate, heart-gate, mind-gate. None of them is guessed at; each is named, and each gate has the right Lord standing in front of it.
Lord Kapila (SB 3.25–33) taught His mother Devahūti the systematic withdrawal of consciousness from senses → prāṇa → mind → buddhi → ātmā into Bhagavān. He named the inner gates one by one and gave them to the Lord's specific forms.
The gopīs' invocation in 10.6.24 is the protective form of the same map: where Kapila walks His mother inward, the gopīs station the Lord's plenary forms at each level outward — defense and ascent share the same anatomy.
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Source: vedabase.io