Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.82.45
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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ādiḥ antaḥ
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the beginning and the end
Phrase: ādiḥ (beginning) + antaḥ (end). Echoes BG 7.6, 10.20, 11.13 — Kṛṣṇa as ādi-anta. Gauḍīyas note: He is not 'beginning and end' as abstract bracket; He personally is both, with form.
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antaram bahiḥ
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inside and outside
Phrase: antaram (within) + bahiḥ (outside). The pañcama-vibhuti formula: present in and around everything. Acintya-bhedābheda — He pervades without being identical.
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aṅganāḥ
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O ladies
Vocative plural of aṅganā — woman, lady. Kṛṣṇa addresses the gopīs respectfully even mid-tattva-instruction. Note the choice of aṅganāḥ rather than sakhyaḥ here — He is shifting register temporarily into adhyātma.
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bhautikānām
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of material things
Genitive plural of bhautika — pertaining to bhūtas (elements). The analogy: as elements pervade objects, so I pervade beings. Gauḍīya tattva-vocabulary moves through these categories carefully.
According to Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī and Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī, Lord Kṛṣṇa implies the following idea in this verse: “If you know that I am the Supreme Lord, there should be no question of your suffering any separation from Me, since I pervade all existence. Your unhappiness must be due to a lack of discrimination. Therefore please take this instruction from Me, which will remove your ignorance. “But the truth of the matter is that you gopīs were in your previous lives great masters of yoga, and thus you must already know this science of jñāna-yoga. Furthermore, whether I try to teach this to you in person or through My representative, such as Uddhava, it will not produce the desired result. Jñāna-yoga simply causes suffering for those who are fully immersed in pure love of Godhead.”
"If you know that I am the lord, then you should not have any suffering in separation from me. You have fallen into sorrow because of your lack of discrimination. Therefore learn from me how to destroy your lack of discrimination." Thus he speaks this verse. "O great lord of yoga, residing in all the three worlds, please put aside that knowledge which destroys sorrow about which you now speak." Then, informing the gopis that actually this knowledge taught by Uddhava and even now taught directly by the Lord, is useless because it does not destroy sorrow for those on the level of prema , he speaks that knowledge. " I am the beginning and end, the inside and outside of all entities—devas, men and animals, just the five elements exist withn all bodies from beginning to end, O young women ( anganah)! (Being women, you do not know this truth I am speaking.)"
“But why is prema the cause of attaining you?” Because I am the shelter of everything, I alone am suitable for prema, and prema is suitable to attain me. Two verses explain this. This means that very quickly you will attain me eternally. Or the gopīs may ask, “Why is there such long separation like this?” Then two verses explain. There is a similar statement in the Dāmodara pastimes. Na cāntar na bahir yasya: the Supreme Lord has no beginning and no end. (SB 10.9.12) Certainly endowed with my beautiful form, I am the cause (ādi) and the place of dissolution (antaḥ). I am spread in the middle (antaram). I spread throughout you, and remain there. Actually separation does not exist. O beautiful women! He shows his prema for them by noting their beauty and qualities.
“Then why is there such long separation?” Two verses explain. I alone (hi) and not māyā am the cause (ādi), middle and resting place of creation. I pervade everywhere and thus am situated with you. I cannot give you up because you have such great beauty. O beautiful women (aṅganāḥ)!
- Where does my sense of separation from the Lord persist because I have not deeply absorbed His omnipresence?
- What practice could absorb that truth more deeply?
Air fills the lungs from outside and pervades the body from within — the same air. Kṛṣṇa shifts here from mādhurya-talk to ātma-tattva, telling the gopīs that the elements they know already mirror Him: He is in them and around them. Aiśvarya-instruction inside mādhurya-meeting.
My note
Source: vedabase.io