• pṛṣṭaḥ — questioned
  Past participle of √prach. The Lord questions; the asura speaks. The Bhāgavatam's preferred geometry: Bhagavān asks, the soul answers. The asura does not realise his speech is testimony, not conversation.
• vacasā amṛta-varṣiṇā — with words raining nectar
  Contiguous (vacasā + amṛta + varṣiṇā). Amṛta-varṣin = nectar-rainer. Gauḍīya scriptures repeatedly cast Bhagavān's speech in this image — Caitanya's Śikṣāṣṭaka rains it, Kṛṣṇa's flute rains it, the baṭuka's words here rain it.
• gata-klamaḥ — his fatigue gone
  Contiguous (gata + klamaḥ). Even on an asura the nectar-rain works at the body's level. The Bhāgavatam: Hari's voice removes klama whether the hearer is prepared or not — the removal precedes the consent.
• abravīt — he said, he reported
  Imperfect of √brū. The asura, relieved, becomes voluble. Gauḍīya reading: when the body is at ease and the heart is unguarded, what was hidden comes out — and Hari is listening.
• yathā pūrvam anuṣṭhitam — everything that had been done before
  Contiguous (yathā + pūrvam + anuṣṭhitam). The whole biography of the boon — flesh in fire, hatchet at the neck, Śiva's hand-on-touch. Once narrated to Hari, it can be dismantled by Hari.

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  His Holiness Prabodhananda Sarasvati Swami· 2026-02-04· Hindi

• What secret of mine has 'spilled' to someone whose sweetness I trusted?
• Where do I underestimate the power of a kind voice to draw out truth?

A thirsty traveler is offered a cup of nectar and, drinking it, forgets the road behind him. Kṛṣṇa's amṛta-words wash away the body's fatigue and the mind's caution at once. Hari's vāc is the most disarming of His weapons — Gauḍīyas know this from Caitanya-caritāmṛta as well as from this chapter.