Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.71.2
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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sācivyam
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assistance, ministerial help
Kṛṣṇa as sacivya to Yudhiṣṭhira anticipates His role as Arjuna's sārathi in the Gītā — Bhagavān willingly takes the subordinate post for His devotee. Gauḍīyas savour this reversal: the Lord serves His servants.
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paitṛ - ṣvasreyasya
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of His paternal aunt's son
Yudhiṣṭhira is Kuntī's son; Kuntī is Vasudeva's sister. The kinship term places Kṛṣṇa inside a familial web — bhakti here moves through vātsalya and sakhya, not abstract sovereignty.
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śaraṇa
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shelter
Śaraṇa is the central Gauḍīya word — the act of taking refuge. The Lord's vow at Bg 18.66 (ahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi) is operative wherever this word appears: the surrendered are never abandoned.
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eṣiṇām
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of those who seek
Present participle — those who are actively seeking shelter. The grammar emphasises the live, ongoing cry of the kings; Kṛṣṇa responds to a current plea, not a past credential.
Devarṣi Nārada wanted Lord Kṛṣṇa to go to Indraprastha and help His cousin Yudhiṣṭhira perform the Rājasūya sacrifice. At the same time, the members of the royal assembly strongly desired that He defeat Jarāsandha and rescue the kings he was holding prisoner. The great-minded Uddhava could understand that Lord Kṛṣṇa desired to do both things, and thus he intelligently advised how both these purposes could be simultaneously accomplished.
You should help Yudhisthira who wants to perform a sacrifice (yaksyatah), which was stated by Narada. You should also protect those who desire your shelter by killing Jarasandha, which is the opinion of the assembly and the messenger.
You should assist what was explained by Nārada because it is your cousin who wants to do a sacrifice, and since you act in brilliant manner (deva). Or you are engaged in pastimes. You have to follow his words since he is a sage (ṛṣiṇā).
- Where am I treating goals as competing when they could be integrated?
- What second-order solution might honor more than one priority at once?
Helping Yudhiṣṭhira's Rājasūya while also rescuing the imprisoned kings is like a physician who, asked for one cure, finds that the same medicine heals two patients — Kṛṣṇa's single act of grace serves both the sacrifice and the śaraṇāgatas at once.
The kings Jarāsandha has imprisoned have sent word to Dvārakā: rakṣa, rakṣa — protect us. Their plea echoes Gajendra in 8.2–3 and the devas in 10.1: when a soul cries śaraṇa, Kṛṣṇa's other plans bend toward that cry.
Nārada and now Uddhava simply read this principle back to Him: a Rājasūya is welcome, but the śaraṇa-eṣiṇāḥ have already booked Your hand.
My note
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