Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.81.9
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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viśvam
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the whole universe
Kṛṣṇa is identifying Himself with viśva — the same self-disclosure as the universal form in Gītā 11. By eating a few grains, He says, the universes are satisfied, because the universes rest in Him.
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tarpayanti
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they satisfy
Present indicative of √tṛp (to satisfy). The same root that names tarpaṇa, the ritual offering to ancestors. Kṛṣṇa's exclamation casts chipped rice as universal tarpaṇa — Sudāmā's bundle is feeding the cosmos.
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parama-prīṇanam
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supreme satisfaction
Compound: parama (highest) + prīṇana (that which delights). Bhagavān's prīṇana cannot be exceeded by anything else in creation, yet He locates it here, in a rag's worth of beaten rice.
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aṅga
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My dear
An affectionate vocative particle. Friends address friends with aṅga in Sanskrit; Kṛṣṇa uses it deliberately. Sakhya-rasa is signalled in one syllable.
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sakhe
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O friend
Vocative of sakhi (friend). The Vraja-rasa word. Kṛṣṇa publicly names Sudāmā as His sakhā in the presence of His queens — establishing once and for all the rank the brāhmaṇa has held all along but had forgotten.
Śrīla Prabhupāda writes in Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead: “It is understood from this statement that Kṛṣṇa, being the original source of everything, is the root of the entire creation. As watering the root of a tree immediately distributes water to every part of the tree, so an offering made to Kṛṣṇa, or any action done for Kṛṣṇa, is to be considered the highest welfare work for everyone, because the benefit of such an offering is distributed throughout the creation. Love for Kṛṣṇa becomes distributed to all living entities.”
"Do not think that this is not suitable for me because it is tasteless. I like this very much. Moreover do not think it is not enough, for it is completely satisfying to me, the embodiment of the universe."
Did you bring this for me? Do not think that this is not a fit gift for me since it is most pleasing to me because you are my friend (sakhe). O friend! You have brought this out of friendship. You should not think that this is meager. Since it satisfies me, the soul of the universe, I can satisfy the whole universe. Or just as watering the root of the tree satisfies all its limbs, by satisfying me the whole universe is satisfied.
- What if my smallest offering to Kṛṣṇa really did benefit all beings?
- How does that thought change the weight of the simple act?
A king accepts the cup of well-water from a thirsty traveler and exclaims that it rivals soma. Kṛṣṇa, viśva (the entire universe Himself), declares that a few grains of flat rice are enough to satisfy the universe — because what He is eating is the love, and love is universe-shaped.
In SB 10.9, Yaśodā opens baby Kṛṣṇa's mouth to check for clay and sees the universes inside. The same Kṛṣṇa who carries the cosmos in His mouth now claims His cosmos is satisfied by chipped rice. The doctrine the Bhāgavatam keeps repeating: Bhagavān is full in Himself, so what He accepts from a bhakta cannot add to Him — yet He acts as though it does, because that is what love between friends does.
My note
Source: vedabase.io