Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.86.21
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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tri-loka-guruḥ
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spiritual master of the three worlds
Compound: tri (three) + loka (world) + guru (heavy, dispeller of darkness). Kṛṣṇa is jagad-guru — not by appointment but by ontology. Gauḍīyas locate Him as the ādi-guru behind every paramparā.
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artha-dṛśam
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spiritual vision
Compound: artha (real meaning, ultimate purpose) + dṛś (sight). Vision that perceives the actual artha behind appearances. Bhagavān bestows this dṛś — śraddhā becomes darśana when His grace touches the eye.
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tamisra
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darkness
From tamas (darkness) — Sanskrit's primary metaphor for ignorance. Sāṅkhya names tamisra as one of the five vipāryayas (errors). Kṛṣṇa-vīkṣaṇa is its medicine.
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aśubha-ghnam
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which eradicates inauspiciousness
Compound: aśubha (inauspicious) + ghnam (slaying, from √han). Kṛṣṇa's glories slay all aśubha. The very verb of demon-slaying is here applied to the act of singing His name — Gauḍīyas read this as Bhagavān's confirmation that nāma-saṅkīrtana is rākṣasa-slaying.
Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī raises the logical question of how the ordinary people along the path could even see the Lord, since not only were their eyes covered by ignorance, but the Lord’s chariot was traveling faster than the wind. Supplying the answer, Śrīla Jīva indicates that Lord Kṛṣṇa’s special glance of mercy empowered every one of them with the devotional purity required for entering into His association. Otherwise, He would have remained outside the scope of their power to see, as He Himself states in His instructions to Uddhava: bhaktyāham ekayā grāhyaḥ. “I can be perceived only by devotion.” ( Bhāg. 11.14.21 ) By the grammatical rule of compound formation known as eka-śeṣa, the term sta-vīkṣaṇa-vinaṣṭa-tamisra-dṛgbhyaḥ, although in its primary sense inflected as a masculine noun, may be understood in this context as referring to both men and women.
How could they relish the sweetness of the Lord’s form? It was by his glance. This is explained in this verse. He destroyed the ignorance in their eyes by his merciful glance, and bestowed upon them realization of the supreme object (artha drsam) and devotion to himself, the only means of realizing his sweetness (ksemam). As he himself says, "I am only attainable by bhakti." (Bhakyaham ekaya grahyah) sb 11.14.21.
“How could they see the form of parabrahman with eyes covered by ignorance? How could they follow the chariot which went as fast as the wind?” The ignorance in their eyes (men and women’ eyes) was destroyed by his glance. He gave them fearlessness and vision. Their eyes were endowed with the prakāśaka-śakti (his energy which causes revelation) arising from the Lord’s svarūpa, in the form of bhakti. Bhaktyāham ekayā grāhyaḥ: I am only obtainable by bhakti. (SB 11.14.21) By the manifestation of those eyes they could see Kṛṣṇa. Thus he is called guru of the three worlds, since he initiated them with bhakti. Hearing his glories which purify the ends of the directions sung by the devatās in the sky, and by humans on earth, delayed because of meeting all these people, he came to Videha.
He gave to the men and women (tebhyaḥ), whose eye disease or whose uselessness (tamisra) was destroyed by his glance, fearlessness of saṁsāra (kṣemam) and eyes (artha-dṛśam) since he gave special vaidha-dīkṣa as the best guru in the three worlds. He heard his fame which purifies all directions, because it destroys all inauspiciousness—sung by men on earth and devatās in the sky. He went slowly, giving gifts to please the people. Or the people had the illusion or darkness (tamisra) covering their eyes destroyed completely by his glance alone. He gave auspiciousness for this and next life, for which purpose he gave knowledge of bhakti, the highest goal (artha-dṛśam).
- When was my last moment of being truly 'seen' by God — and what changed?
- Where do I overcomplicate when one true glance from Him would suffice?
Kṛṣṇa's glance burns away tamisra — the very darkness that is the etymological root of materialism. As the rising sun does not lecture the dark, simply being-there ends it, so Bhagavān's gocara to the eye is the end of saṁsāric vision.
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Source: vedabase.io