Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.75.30
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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dharma-sutaḥ
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the son of Dharma
Compound: dharma (Dharmarāja, Yama in his dharma-aspect) + suta (son). Yudhiṣṭhira's parentage is dharma itself. The chapter is reminding us: this is dharma's emperor reaching the end of dharma's natural fever.
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manaḥ-ratha
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of desires
Compound: manas (mind) + ratha (chariot). 'Mind-chariot' — the mind-driven projects of a soul. Even a good ruler has manaḥ-rathas; even good desires constitute an ocean to be crossed.
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mahā-arṇavam
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the great ocean
Compound: mahā (great) + arṇava (ocean). The classical śāstric image for saṁsāra — and for the inner ocean of unfulfilled wishes. Yudhiṣṭhira's ocean is the second kind.
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su-dustaram
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very difficult to cross
Compound: su (very) + dustara (hard to cross). The Bhāgavatam's standard adjective for saṁsāra. Crossing happens 'kṛṣṇena' — by Kṛṣṇa. Self-effort is not the agency named.
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gata-jvaraḥ
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freed of feverish condition
Compound: gata (gone) + jvara (fever). The same word Dhruva earns. The signature Gauḍīya state of one in whom kṛṣṇa-sambandha is established: the inner burn ends.
The previous chapters of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam clearly explain that King Yudhiṣṭhira intensely desired to demonstrate to the world the supremacy of Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and the blessings received by those who surrender to Him. To do this, King Yudhiṣṭhira performed the Rājasūya sacrifice, a very difficult task. Śrīla Prabhupāda writes in this connection: “In the material world, everyone has a particular type of desire to be fulfilled, but one is never able to fulfill his desires to his full satisfaction. But King Yudhiṣṭhira, because of his unflinching devotion to Kṛṣṇa, could fulfill all his desires successfully by the performance of the Rājasūya sacrifice. From the description of the Rājasūya yajña, it appears that such a function is a great ocean of opulent desires. It is not possible for an ordinary man to cross over such an ocean; nevertheless, by the grace of Lord Kṛṣṇa, King Yudhiṣṭhira was able to cross over it very easily, and thus he became freed from all anxieties.”
Previously Yudhisṭhira said that he wanted to worship Kṛṣṇa’s expansions by performing the sacrifice (SB 10.72.3-5). Now he had crossed the ocean of that desire, with complete happiness (sam—uttīrnya) because of Kṛṣṇa’s assistance.
- What burning ambition still drives me, and could it be entrusted to Kṛṣṇa's grace?
- Where would 'surrender' actually be the strategy that crosses the ocean?
A man who has crossed the ocean of his own wishes is light for the first time. Yudhiṣṭhira's burning was the fever (jvara) of a long-held ambition; Kṛṣṇa's grace is not advice but bath — the fever simply goes when the ocean is behind you.
Dhruva Mahārāja came to the forest for a kingdom; he met Viṣṇu and went home with something else entirely — his fever broken, his manaḥ-ratha replaced. Canto 4 says he was 'gata-jvara,' the same phrase used here.
Gauḍīyas read the parallel: any devotee who actually meets Kṛṣṇa stops needing what he came for. Yudhiṣṭhira wanted Rājasūya glory; Kṛṣṇa gave him something incommensurable — fever gone, the Rājasūya beside the point.
My note
Source: vedabase.io