Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.65.3
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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dāśārha
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O descendant of Daśārha
Vocative — the dynastic name. The parents address Him simultaneously as their son and as scion of a royal house, holding both registers (vātsalya and aiśvarya) without strain. Vraja-rasa always foregrounds the first.
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jagat
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of the universe
World, cosmos. Coupled with īśvaraḥ in the next breath. The parents speak the truth of His cosmic identity and then immediately put that cosmic identity onto their laps — the Vraja move.
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īśvaraḥ
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the Lord
Ruler, controller. Gauḍīya reading: Bhagavān is jagat-īśvara in Dvārakā/Mathurā register and son-on-the-lap in Vraja register. The same person; rasa selects which face is forward.
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aṅkam
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onto their laps
Lap, hollow of the body. Vātsalya's privileged location — the place where vastness consents to be held. The whole theological wager of Canto 10 is that Bhagavān fits here.
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āliṅgya
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embracing
Absolutive of ā-√liṅg (to embrace). The full-body cling. Repeated embraces (cf. pariṣvaktaḥ in v. 2) are how Vraja-bhaktas confess the Lord's identity — by holding it, not by stating it.
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siṣicatuḥ
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they moistened
Perfect dual of √sic (to sprinkle, irrigate). They water Bhagavān with tears. Gauḍīyas treat aśru (devotional tears) as a sāttvika-bhāva of the highest grade — Yaśodā and Nanda perform abhiṣeka with their eyes.
Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī comments on this verse as follows: “Nanda and Yaśodā prayed to Śrī Balarāma, ‘May You, along with Your younger brother, protect us.’ Thus they expressed their respect for the fact that He is the elder brother, and they also showed how much they considered Him their own son.”
"Everywhere we hear that you along with your brother are the lords of the universe. Then why do you not protect your elderly parents?" Saying this first, Nanda and then Yasoda placed him on their lap, kissed him and embraced him with tears in their eyes.
“Protect us for a long time” indicates that they blessed Balarāma with long life and strength. Calling him Lord of the universe is also a blessing. Though they were also Dāśārhas, they describe him as such to indicate him as the son of Vasudeva since he was the chief of the Yadus, distinguishing him from Kauravas and Pāṇḍavas. Though Nanda had more affection for Kṛṣṇa as his own son, he protected Balarāma as his own son also, since he regarded his brother’s son as his own. This showed Nanda’s intense affection for Vasudeva, thinking of Vasudeva as himself. Thus he regarded Balarāma has his own son. By saying “with your younger brother (sānujaḥ)” he indicated again that he regarded Balarāma as his son. He took Balarāma as the main son and Kṛṣṇa as secondary by saying “along with your younger brother.” In saying “please protect us” he indicates without distinction “all of us Yādavas.” Or in embracing him out of longing, at this moment he thought it inappropriate to disregard the others in Dvārakā and to think only of the people of Vraja. Protect the Yādavas and protect us.
“Protect us, all the people of Vraja, for a long time” indicates that they blessed Balarāma with long life and strength. Calling him Lord of the universe is also a blessing. They considered that Kṛṣṇa was not merciful to them since he did not come. Yet they pray to him also. Even though he protected them, without his presence they were unprotected. O descendent of the Yadu dynasty! With resentment and pain they call out to him because he protected the Yadus and gave up the people of Vraja. They moistened him with water from their eyes. Or “You should have long live with unobstructed strength. O excellent child, you should have sons, and grandsons, wealth and power.” First they gave blessings in affection and then out of misery prayed “Protect us!” O lord of the Yadus (dāśārha)! Though you are occupied with protecting them, as the Lord of the universe, protect us, who reside within the universe.
- When I pray, am I more concerned about my comfort or about God's pleasure?
- What does it mean to bless God before asking anything for myself?
An old mother lifts her grown son onto her lap as if he were still small and weeps because the body remembers what the eyes refuse to admit: the Lord of the universe has been her boy. The lap is too small for Bhagavān, and yet, in Vraja, it is exactly the right size.
Earlier in this same Canto (SB 10.9), Yaśodā tried to bind Kṛṣṇa to a mortar with a rope, and the rope was always two fingers too short — until her prema made it long enough. Now in chapter 65 the same parents lift Balarāma onto laps that are 'too small' for jagat-īśvara.
Gauḍīya tradition reads both scenes as the same theology: Bhagavān submits Himself to the measurements of Vraja-prema. The lap holds Him because love has the ruler.
My note
Source: vedabase.io