Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.82.10
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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vidhi-vat
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in accordance with scriptural injunctions
Compound: vidhi (rule, scripture) + vat (adverbial suffix). Vaiṣṇava bhakti is not anti-scriptural sentimentality — vidhi-mārga structures sādhana until rāga-mārga blooms. Hari-bhakti-vilāsa codifies precisely this.
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kṛṣṇe naḥ bhaktiḥ astu
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may we have devotion to Kṛṣṇa
The Vṛṣṇis' explicit prayer. This single phrase is the Gauḍīya prayojana — Caitanya Mahāprabhu's prayer in the Śikṣāṣṭakam (mama janmani janmanīśvare bhavatād bhaktir ahaitukī tvayi) is its direct descendant.
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bhaktiḥ
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devotion
From √bhaj — to share, to participate, to serve. For Gauḍīyas, bhakti is both means and end — sādhana-bhakti ripens into bhāva-bhakti, then prema-bhakti; it is never instrumental to liberation, because it surpasses liberation.
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dvija-agryebhyaḥ
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to first-class brāhmaṇas
Compound: dvija (twice-born) + agryebhyaḥ (to the foremost, dative). 'First-class' in Vaiṣṇava reading means brāhmaṇa-vaiṣṇava — those whose dvija status is completed by bhakti. Mere birth is not sufficient (cf. SB 7.9.10).
This second bath marked the end of their fasting, on the following day.
After the eclipse was over, they took bathe (punar aplutya).
They fed brāhmaṇas the best rice. To express their great good fortune, in bathing and giving in charity, they prayed for devotion to Kṛṣṇa. Each prayed for prema for their families since they all had natural greed for the Lord.
They fed the best of the twice born, brāhmaṇas or the best brāhmaṇas, who were also devotees, the best rice. Showing their good fortune, their vow is described with giving charity: may we have bhakti for Kṛṣṇa, the son of Devakī, the supreme Lord. Each person prayed for himself and his family (naḥ).
- Is 'grant me devotion' a regular prayer of mine?
- What would change if it became the capstone of my practices?
A merchant offered every commodity at a fair will pass them all by and ask only for one rare gem. The Vṛṣṇis bathe at famous lakes, feed first-class brāhmaṇas — and then ask for the one thing those acts cannot produce on their own: kṛṣṇa-bhakti.
When Kṛṣṇa was about to leave Hastināpura after the war, Queen Kuntī did not pray for restored kingdom or healed sons. She asked for vipadaḥ santu (SB 1.8.25) — calamities again and again, because in calamity she had remembered Him.
Gauḍīyas place Kuntī's prayer and this Vṛṣṇi prayer in the same lineage. Every external blessing — kingdom, lakes, brāhmaṇas, sacrifice — is sought only as a means to one end: kṛṣṇe naḥ bhaktir astu. Bhakti is the only legitimate prayojana.
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