Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.69.39
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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udgāyan
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loudly singing
Compound: ud (up, aloud) + √gai (to sing). Not silent meditation but vocal kīrtana. Gauḍīyas: udgāyan is the right register — kīrtana is meant to be loud, audible, social. Nārada chooses the form Mahāprabhu would later canonize for Kali-yuga.
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līlāḥ bhuvana-pāvanīḥ
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pastimes which purify all worlds
Compound: līlā + bhuvana (world) + pāvanī (purifier). Hearing or singing Kṛṣṇa-līlā is itself purifying. Gauḍīya thesis: kṛṣṇa-līlā-śravaṇa-kīrtana is the prayojana — the means and the end coincide.
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yaśasā āplutān
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flooded with Your fame
Yaśas (fame, glory) + āpluta (flooded). The worlds are already submerged in Kṛṣṇa's yaśas; Nārada will add his vīṇā to the flood. The image is the Bhāgavata's preferred metaphor for nāma-kīrtana: nectar overflowing every world.
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anujānīhi
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please give leave
Causative imperative of anu + √jñā (to know, to permit). The disciple's word — taking leave from the guru. Even Nārada, whose curiosity drove the chapter, departs only with the Lord's anujñā. The wandering sevā is not self-initiated.
Even Nārada Muni was bewildered to see Lord Kṛṣṇa’s amazing pastimes as a human being. Therefore, with the words anujānīhi māṁ deva he requests permission to return to his normal service of traveling and preaching. Inspired by what he has seen, he wants to preach widely the glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
"Seeing your astonishing pastimes, I cannot maintain my steadiness. Therefore permit me to leave and speak this to dear friends in various places."
Fearing that the Lord would say, “If you stay here a while, you will understand” Nārada then asks permission to leave. I cannot tolerate seeing you worshipping others. He then says he will glorify the Lord’s fame. He says this in order to reveal his extreme lack of qualification. You are most worthy of worship (deva)! I will wander the worlds flooded with your glories. The word āplūta (flooded) suggests his glories are the greatest tīrtha.
O Lord performing pastimes in the house (deva)! I will wander in the worlds filled with your fame. This indicates that his fame is the sum of all tīrthas. I will hear everywhere your qualities such as affection for devotees. Moreover, I will loudly sing your household pastimes which I saw. Why? They purify the fourteen worlds of obstacles to bhakti and all faults in bhakti. By hearing your sweet pastimes, pure bhakti for you will naturally arise in all people without any hindrances. Or permit me to go, to wander in the world, O master (deva)!
- What about Kṛṣṇa do I want to tell others about right now?
- Where could I be a less self-conscious sharer of His glories?
A pilgrim, granted his vision, asks not for more vision but for permission to leave and sing what he has seen — because the world is dim and the worlds are flooded with the Lord's fame, and someone must walk the worlds adding their own verse to the flood.
Across the Bhāgavatam Nārada is the wandering nāmaiḥ — kīrtana-traveller. He sings Kṛṣṇa's pastimes in Brahma-loka, in Indra-loka, in the courts of kings, in the hermitages of sages. His vīṇā is the moving propagator of yaśas.
Gauḍīyas treat him as the prototype of the parivrājaka-bhakta — the saint who, having been given darśana, does not retire to silence but to song. Caitanya Mahāprabhu's saṅkīrtana-mission across Bengal and South India is read as Nārada's vocation taken up in Kali-yuga.
My note
Source: vedabase.io