Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.84.14
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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akuṇṭha-medhasaḥ
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of unrestricted intelligence
a- (not) + kuṇṭha (blunt, dulled) + medhas (intellect). Kṛṣṇa's intelligence is never blunted by any object. Gauḍīyas read this as a marker of Bhagavān's omniscience as personal — not abstract knowing, but the sharpness of a Person fully present.
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duranvayam
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difficult to comprehend
dus- (difficult) + anvaya (logical connection, following). Hard to follow the line of reasoning. Gauḍīyas note that Kṛṣṇa's speech often resists analytic reduction because it speaks from a position the analyst does not yet occupy.
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bhramat-dhiyaḥ
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whose minds were unsteady
bhramat (wandering) + dhī (intellect). The brāhmaṇas' minds spin. Gauḍīyas hold that the right reception of bhagavat-vāc temporarily disorients the buddhi — the precondition for a deeper alignment.
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viprāḥ
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the learned brāhmaṇas
From √vip (to tremble, be stirred). A vipra is properly one stirred by Vedic knowing. The verse uses the strongest term for them and shows them silenced — the doctrine here is bigger than their vocabulary.
Hearing those words (starting with verse nine) of Krsna, which were hard to understand because they were so extraordinary (duranvayam), the sages remained silent.
Hearing the words of Svayam Bhagavān (bhagavataḥ kṛṣṇasya), who had unlimited intelligence, words which were incoherent (duranvayam), since he spoke like a person dedicated to karma, the brahmaṇas (sages), knowing his greatness, became filled with doubt in their hearts (bhramad-dhiyaḥ) since they could not understand the meaning.
He was directly the supreme Lord (bhagavataḥ), revealing unlimited powers (kṛṣṇasya), and had unlimited intelligence (akuṇṭha-medhasaḥ). Hearing words like those of a person attached to material karmas (ittham), those who were full of knowledge of all things through instructions with the true meaning of the Vedas (viprāḥ), became bewildered. Duranvayam can mean incoherent, since the Lord’s words describing a jīva bound by karma were not coherent. Thus the brahmaṇas (sages), became filled with doubt in their hearts (bhramad-dhiyaḥ), since they could not understand the meaning.
- What humility from God Himself have I failed to imitate?
- Where do I expect honor from others that even Kṛṣṇa would have offered first?
When Kṛṣṇa speaks as a junior in the assembly and calls the ṛṣis the real tīrthas, the brāhmaṇas fall silent the way a hall of musicians falls silent when the patron sings: stunned not by ignorance but by the impossibility of placing what was just heard. The Bhagavān whose words this is, is Himself the unfathomable source.
In SB 10.13–14, after stealing Kṛṣṇa's calves and cowherd boys to test Him and finding them all replaced by Kṛṣṇa Himself, Brahmā stands speechless on the bank of the Yamunā, his intellect bewildered (mūḍha-dhī).
Gauḍīyas pair the Bhāgavatam's brāhmaṇas here with Brahmā there: encountering Kṛṣṇa's unfathomable speech and līlā produces the same silence.
My note
Source: vedabase.io