Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.6.30
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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praṇaya - baddhābhiḥ
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(by the gopīs) who were bound by maternal affection
Compound — praṇaya (deep affection, intimacy) + baddha (bound) + feminine plural instrumental. Praṇaya is a higher emotional grade than mere sneha — in Rūpa Gosvāmī's Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, praṇaya is a sub-stage in the maturation of prema. The gopīs' bond is already at that level.
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kṛta - rakṣaṇam
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(unto whom) protection had been performed
Compound — kṛta (done) + rakṣaṇa (protection). The rakṣā-mantras of verses 19–29 are summed up in this single past-participial phrase. Vedic and Vaiṣṇava ritual: name the act, then close it; only then return to ordinary care.
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pāyayitvā
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after feeding (the breast)
Causative gerund of pā (to drink). She caused Him to drink — gentle, ordinary, repeated. After the high-key kavaca, the Bhāgavata steps back into vātsalya's plainest verb.
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sannyaveśayat
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made (Him) lie down (on the bed)
Causative imperfect of sam-ni-viś (to settle). The same verb-family used for ritual installation of a Deity in His temple bed. Yaśodā is, in effect, performing nidrā-sevā for Bhagavān; she does not call it that, which is why it is so dear to Him.
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ātmajam
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her son
Compound — ātma (self) + ja (born from). 'Born from one's own self.' Gauḍīya note: in Yaśodā's vātsalya the bhāva of 'my own child' is given by Yoga-māyā even though Kṛṣṇa is not biologically hers — the bhāva is doctrinally true at the level of love, not biology. Bhagavān accepts the relationship as real.
When a baby drinks milk from the breast of his mother, this is a good sign of health. So the elderly gopīs were not satisfied with chanting mantras to give protection to Kṛṣṇa; they also tested whether their child’s health was in order. When the child sucked the breast, this confirmed that He was healthy, and when the gopīs were fully satisfied, they had the child lie down on His bed.
Thus the gopis completed the rituals for protection, bound to Yasoda’s house by affection. Yasoda then made Krsna drink milk from her breast. By his drinking she could understand that he was in good health. Then she put him to sleep.
The gopīs protected Kṛṣṇa because of being bound by great affection. They always remained in Yaśodā’s house as nurses because of that affection. They engaged in various activities there because of great eagerness for the Lord. Yaśodā showed her natural affection as a mother by giving her breast. This is also a customary way of seeing if the child is in good health.
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- Tend to one dependent — child, elder, or junior — today with the same patient, hands-on attentiveness Yaśodā gave Kṛṣṇa, not delegated and not rushed.
- Refuse the false choice between 'spiritual' acts and bodily care; offer the next ordinary nurturing task (feeding, settling, comforting) directly to Kṛṣṇa as sevā.
- Notice where you stop at chanting or wishing and skip the practical follow-through, and finish at least one such task today before lying down to rest.
Yaśodā, having performed the rakṣā-mantra, now lays the child to her breast and to His bed — exactly as a master architect, after blessing the foundations, returns to washing the dishes. Pure vātsalya is small, near, and embodied; it does not float above its child in mystic abstraction but settles, nipple-to-mouth, into ordinary care.
In Ayodhyā-kāṇḍa, the Rāmāyaṇa lingers on Kausalyā's daily acts of motherly care for Rāma — bathing, feeding, plaiting hair — before His exile to the forest. She is queen-consort of Daśaratha; her hands still hold milk and oils.
Yaśodā in 10.6.30, having just protected her child with high mantras, does precisely the same — feeds, lays Him down, smooths the cloth. Gauḍīya rasa-vicāra reads Yaśodā's vātsalya as higher than Kausalyā's; the verse models its texture: post-mantra, the milk.
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