Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.60.1
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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sukham
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comfortably
The Lord 'relaxes' on His queen's bed — a domestic, mādhurya register. Bhagavān permits Himself the appearance of leisure to draw out the rasa His devotee carries; the comfort is hers to give, not His to need.
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patim
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her husband
Not 'master of the universe' first, but pati first — Rukmiṇī's relation is conjugal-mādhurya. The verse's whole tension depends on this: she serves Him as husband, and the teasing will land in exactly that vulnerable place.
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jagat-gurum
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spiritual master of the universe
Compound: jagat (universe) + guru (teacher). The poet stacks the title against the bedroom scene — He who teaches the worlds reclines while His queen fans Him. Aiśvarya and mādhurya overlapping in a single image.
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paryacarat
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she was serving
Imperfect of pari + √car — to move around (in service). Sevā is the Gauḍīya keystone — even Lakṣmī, supreme by every reckoning, moves around her Lord in service. The verse opens the chapter on this word.
Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī poetically notes that in this chapter Rukmiṇīdevī is like fragrant camphor crushed on the grinding stone of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s speech. In other words, the lovely, chaste qualities of Rukmiṇī will become manifest as a result of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s apparently insensitive words, just as camphor’s fragrance becomes manifest when granules of camphor are crushed by a grinding stone. The ācārya further points out that Rukmiṇī is personally serving the Lord because He is jagad-gurum, the spiritual master of the universe, and patim, her husband.
In the sixtieth chapter Krsna grinds the camphor like heart of Rukmini with his pestle like words. Being bewildered and relieved, she replies to Krsna’s statements. Rukmini and her friends fanned Krsna because he was her husband and the guru of the universe.
Śukadeva now speaks of the love quarrel between Rukmiṇī and Kṛṣṇa which are suitable in speaking about the events after Aniruddha’s marriage. This quarrel indicates special rasa in the pastimes with the queens. The whole chapter deals with this. One time, while happily engaging in married life, was serving Kṛṣṇa, seated on her bed since he was he was greater than anyone (jagad-gurum) particularly because he was the object of her love since he was her husband. By her friends she served him with various articles, and finally with the fan she personally served him. This is implied because it is proper that one person fans rather than many and verse 7 mentions that she alone took a yak tail fan.
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- Where do you delegate intimate service that you could perform yourself?
- What service today would mean more done by your own hands?
Picture a maharani — empress of half the universe by marriage to its Lord — choosing to fan Him with her own hand while maidservants stand by. Rukmiṇī's sevā is not need; it is mādhurya. The Goddess of Fortune leans toward her Master because nearness itself is her wealth.
In the Bhāgavatam's pictures of Vaikuṇṭha, Lakṣmī-devī is always shown pressing the lotus feet of Nārāyaṇa — not because the Lord needs the service, but because contact with His person is her single wealth. The maidservants stand back; she will do it herself.
Gauḍīyas read Rukmiṇī as Lakṣmī descended into Dvārakā — the same hand that presses Viṣṇu's feet now holds the cāmara. The form changes; the bhāva is one.
My note
Source: vedabase.io