Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.84.69
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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govinda-caraṇa-ambuje
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at the lotus feet of Govinda
Govinda + caraṇa (foot) + ambuja (lotus). The Gauḍīya standard formula. Gauḍīyas note that caraṇa-ambuja is the destination of every limb of bhakti — the gopīs' mind, having reached it, cannot be retrieved.
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kṣiptam
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cast, thrown
Past participle of √kṣip (to throw). The mind has been cast at Bhagavān's feet (manaḥ kṣiptam). Gauḍīyas note the violence in the verb: the mind has been thrown — not gently placed but flung.
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anīśāḥ
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incapable
a- (not) + īśa (capable, master). They cannot pull the mind back (hartum anīśāḥ). Gauḍīyas read this as the operative state of prema: the heart, once given, cannot be retracted, even by the giver.
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gopāḥ
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the cowherd men
The Vraja population. The verse couples gopāḥ with gopyaḥ — the chapter ends with both gopas and gopīs equally bound at Govinda's feet, the social distinctions inside Vraja dissolved by the common bhāva.
They were unable to withdraw their minds from Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet where they had placed them. They went with their bodies but their minds remained with Kṛṣṇa. They went quickly to the province of Mathurā, with the conviction that Kṛṣṇa would keep his promise and come there. Instead of mathurām sometimes mathurān deśān is seen. They could not take their minds away from him until he returned. The two words ca indicate that all of them had this condition.
They were unable to withdraw their minds from Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet where they had placed them. They went with their bodies but their minds remained with Kṛṣṇa, again. By thinking of Kṛṣṇa they became bewildered. This was similar to the time when Nanda left Mathurā and returned to Vraja. Or it was similar to the time when Kṛsṇa left Vraja for Mathurā. They could not withdraw their minds from Kṛṣṇa and almost fainted. Or recovering slightly, again because of increased affection, they could not withdraw their minds. The two words ca indicate that all of the people went. They were all important. One version has māthurān. This indicates the Lord ruled over many states of Mathurā.
- Where does my mind actually live when my body is elsewhere?
- What 'lotus feet' do I want my mind to refuse to leave?
Nanda, the gopas, and the gopīs return to Mathurā with their minds left behind at Govinda's lotus feet. They go physically but the mind doesn't follow. The verse names what the gopīs will go on to embody in the next chapter — and what Caitanya will incarnate fifteen centuries later: the body in one place, the heart at the feet.
Mahāprabhu, residing in Jagannātha Purī, was bodily there but his mind, his devotees reported, was always at Vṛndāvana's kuñjas. Caitanya-caritāmṛta records his nights at the Gambhīrā as long sessions of mānasī-sevā in the bowers of Vraja.
Gauḍīyas read this verse as the seed-condition of that bhāva: bodily relocation, mind irretrievably planted at the Lord's feet.
My note
Source: vedabase.io