Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.7.9
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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avyavasita-matīn
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those who had lost all intelligence in the present situation
A-vy-ava-sita (un-determined) + mati (intelligence). The same buddhi-yoga vocabulary as the Gītā — when the situation transcends ordinary causation, ordinary mati fails. The verse positions childlike receptivity above adult analysis.
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rudatā anena
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by Him while crying
Anena (by Him) — even Kṛṣṇa's crying is creative. Vraja-līlā treats His every bodily act, including tears and tantrums, as līlā-pradarśana. The asura is dispatched not in spite of His crying but through it.
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kṣiptam etat
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this was kicked apart
Kṣipta — thrown, hurled. The same root as the Gītā's saṅkalpa-prabhavān kāmāṁs tyaktvā sarvān (6.24). The cart's destruction is a single decisive throw — the model of how Kṛṣṇa removes obstacles when the soul cries for Him.
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na saṁśayaḥ
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there is no doubt about it
Saṁśaya — doubt, the obstacle Kṛṣṇa repeatedly cuts (Gītā 4.42). The children speak the very phrase Kṛṣṇa Himself uses in the Gītā. Pure śraddhā speaks with na saṁśayaḥ; sophisticated reasoning speaks with viparyaya.
We have heard of people’s being haunted by ghosts. Having no gross material body, a ghost seeks shelter of a gross body to stay in and haunt. The Śakaṭāsura was a ghost who had taken shelter of the handcart and was looking for the opportunity to do mischief to Kṛṣṇa. When Kṛṣṇa kicked the cart with His small and very delicate legs, the ghost was immediately pushed down to the earth and his shelter dismantled, as already described. This was possible for Kṛṣṇa because He has full potency, as confirmed in the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.32) : aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛttimanti paśyanti pānti kalayanti ciraṁ jaganti ānanda-cinmaya-sad-ujjvala-vigrahasya govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi Kṛṣṇa’s body is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha, or ānanda-cinmaya-rasa-vigraha. That is, any of the parts of His ānanda-cinmaya body can act for any other part. Such are the inconceivable potencies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Supreme Lord does not need to acquire these potencies; He already has them. Thus Kṛṣṇa kicked His little legs, and His whole purpose was fulfilled. Also, when the handcart broke, an ordinary child could have been injured in many ways, but because Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He enjoyed the dismantling of the cart, and nothing injured Him. Everything done by Him is ānanda-cinmaya-rasa, full transcendental bliss. Thus Kṛṣṇa factually enjoyed. The nearby children saw that actually Kṛṣṇa had kicked the wheel of the cart and this was how the accident happened. By the arrangement of Yoga-māyā, all the gopīs and gopas thought that the accident had taken place because of some bad planet or some ghost, but in fact everything was done by Kṛṣṇa and enjoyed by Him. Those who enjoy the activities of Kṛṣṇa are also on the platform of ānanda-cinmaya-rasa; they are liberated from the material platform. When one develops the practice of hearing kṛṣṇa-kathā, he is certainly transcendental to material existence, as confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā ( sa guṇān samatītyaitān brahma-bhūyāya kalpate ). Unless one is on the spiritual platform, one cannot enjoy the transcendental activities of Kṛṣṇa; or in other words, whoever engages in hearing the transcendental activities of Kṛṣṇa is not on the material platform, but on the transcendental, spiritual platform.
The children who had witnessed the event explained it to the gopis who could not discern what had happened. "Is this the work of some demon or evil planets?" they asked.
Unsettled because of the surprising incident, they could not determine the cause of the cart crashing. Perhaps it was a demon or evil spirit. The children had been looking at Kṛṣṇa, attracted by his sweetness. That cart was turned over by the foot of Kṛṣṇa when he cried. Pointing out Kṛṣṇa using the word anena (by him), they indicate that they directly saw it at that time: there is no doubt about this; we definitely saw this.
- When something in your day suddenly 'breaks' — a plan, a possession, a position — refuse the demon-or-bad-luck story and look for Kṛṣṇa's hand in the dismantling.
- Read or hear one passage of kṛṣṇa-kathā today aloud, however briefly, and notice the shift from material anxiety to ānanda-cinmaya-rasa.
- Loosen your grip on one thing you have been clutching as 'mine' — a project, an outcome, an object — and offer it inwardly to the small feet of Kṛṣṇa.
Small children at a festival often see the truth the elders miss — a kingfisher among the lamps, a thief among the guests. The bālakāḥ at the broken cart see what Kaṁsa's spies and Vraja's elders both miss: Kṛṣṇa's foot did this. Innocence sees Bhagavān before sophistication does.
When Hiraṇyakaśipu's tutors taught artha and kāma, the child Prahlāda stood up and taught Viṣṇu-bhakti to his classmates instead (SB 7.5–6). The asura court could not credit a five-year-old's theology; the children themselves heard it gladly.
Kṛṣṇa's witness often arrives through bālakāḥ — Prahlāda, the gopa-children of Vraja, the children at the broken cart. The verse here records a moment when the small ones see clearly what the grown gopas cannot.
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