Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.81.12
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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acyuta-mandire
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in the palace of Lord Acyuta
Compound: acyuta (the infallible) + mandira (palace). Acyuta — never falling — is the title used here. The palace shares the quality of its master: a place that does not fall away. Sudāmā has slept inside infallibility itself.
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svaḥ gatam
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having attained the spiritual world
svar (heaven, the higher world) + gata (gone). The brāhmaṇa's own felt experience — and the poet treats it as accurate, not delusion. The night with Bhagavān is the spiritual world.
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bhuktvā pītvā
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eating and drinking
Gerundives of √bhuj and √pā. Material verbs sanctified by location: the eating and drinking in Acyuta-mandira are themselves transcendental events. Gauḍīya tradition: prasāda eaten in Bhagavān's presence is not annam but amṛtam.
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sukham
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to his satisfaction
Adverbially: comfortably, happily. The chronically half-fed brāhmaṇa eats sukham — completely — for the first time in years. The poet records the body's healing as a side-effect of the bhāva's healing.
Eating and drinking sufficiently, it was as if he were in the heavenly planets (svargam yatha).
After the day passed, he spent one night at the palace of the Lord who was full of complete bliss (acyuta), which was like a temple. He ate and drank happily. He thought he was in heaven. This is an expression for material people. Or it can mean Vaikuṇṭha since it was already mentioned that he was in the temple of the Lord. Svaḥ can mean Vaikuṇṭha also for it is said svaś- cūḍāmaṇiṁ subhagayantam ivātma-dhiṣṇyam: it appeared that the Lord was personally spreading the beauty and good fortune of the spiritual world. (SB 3.15.39) It was like (yathā) the spiritual world because Dvārakā was the supreme Vaikuṇṭha, being eternal. Another version has suptvā. He slept with the Lord. The meter in that case would be deficient one syllable. This would be because of great bliss of the speaker.
- What experience in my life has felt like a foretaste of Vaikuṇṭha, and what made it so?
- How could I offer that quality of hospitality to others?
A traveler from a hungry village who is given a single night at the royal table later cannot tell whether the meal was in this world or in svarga. Sudāmā, eating and drinking at Acyuta's palace, feels he has crossed the boundary into the spiritual world — because where Bhagavān eats, that place is already Vaikuṇṭha.
When sage Nārada visited Vraja, he forgot Vaikuṇṭha and Kailāsa — the dust of Nanda's courtyard was sweeter. Sudāmā's experience in Dvārakā parallels this: one night in Kṛṣṇa's palace, eating in His company, is svaḥ-gata. Gauḍīyas hold that wherever Bhagavān is, His dhāma is — Dvārakā, Vraja, or the bhakta's heart.
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