• abalā — the innocent woman (literally, the powerless one)
  A-balā — without strength. Standardly applied to women in classical Sanskrit. The verse uses it of Yaśodā at her most powerless moment — exactly when her power as Kṛṣṇa's mother is greatest. Gauḍīya commentaries: it is her abala-ness that pulls Kṛṣṇa back. The Lord cannot bear His devotee's helplessness.
• ati-karuṇam — very pitifully
  Ati (very) + karuṇa (compassion-evoking). Karuṇa-rasa is one of the classical rasas; in Vaiṣṇava theology it appears as vipralambha — the bhāva of separation. Yaśodā's karuṇa-cry is vipralambha-vātsalya, an extremely high spiritual condition, though it looks only like grief from outside.
• mṛta-vatsakā — who has lost her calf
  Mṛta (dead) + vatsaka (calf). The simile is from Vraja's own substrate — Yaśodā's grief is described in the language of the cowshed, not the philosophy hall. The Gauḍīya frame: rasa always uses substrate-imagery; vātsalya in Vraja is structurally a cow-and-calf rasa, and the verse's own simile confirms it.
• patitā — fallen
  From pat — to fall. The same verb later used for Kṛṣṇa's prayer 'tava pāda-paṅkaja-saṁsthitaṁ patati' (CC). Yaśodā's bodily fall mirrors the surrendered devotee's prostration — vātsalya-grief and dāsya-praṇāma share a posture.

• Notice today the moments when Kṛṣṇa seems 'lost' to you — in distraction, anxiety, dust-storms of the mind — and call out to Him by name in that exact moment.
• Refuse to interpret obscurity as absence; when sādhana feels dry, sit and chant anyway, trusting He has not gone anywhere.
• Speak to someone grieving a loss today not with material consolation but by quietly steadying yourself in the conviction that the soul's relationship with Kṛṣṇa is never severed.

A cow whose calf has slipped through the fence does not reason about the field's geography; she falls to her knees at the gap and bellows for the calf. Yaśodā's collapse is exactly this cow's collapse — the verse names it directly. Vātsalya-rasa, when its object disappears, abandons every philosophical consolation and becomes a sound.