Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.13.10
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
-
mithaḥ
—
to one another
Reciprocal adverb. Sakhya-rasa is structurally mutual — not the devotee giving to the Lord, but Bhagavān and friend exchanging. Gauḍīyas mark mithaḥ as the small grammatical signature of the friendship-mood.
-
sva-sva-bhojya-rucim
—
each one's own particular taste of food
Compound: sva-sva (each one's own) + bhojya (eatable) + ruci (taste). Vraja honors particularity: every mother packs differently, every boy brings his own ruci. Gauḍīyas hear ruci as the technical term for the developing taste in bhakti's ladder.
-
hasantaḥ
—
laughing
Present participle of √has. Vraja's līlā is permeated by laughter — hāsya is one of the auxiliary rasas Rūpa Gosvāmī catalogues. Sakhya without laughter is not sakhya; sobriety is for the impersonalist.
-
hāsayantaḥ
—
making others laugh
Causative present participle of √has. The boys do not merely laugh; they cause Kṛṣṇa to laugh and cause each other to laugh. Gauḍīyas read this as the highest sakhya: not just sharing one's joy but being the occasion of the Lord's joy.
-
saha-īśvarāḥ
—
along with the Supreme Lord
Compound: saha (with) + īśvara (Lord). The hearer must hold the paradox: the boys are eating 'with the Lord,' yet for them it is just eating with their friend. Gauḍīyas treasure this — the highest aiśvarya is the aiśvarya so concealed that it is felt as friendship.
Sometimes one friend would say, “Kṛṣṇa, see how my food is relishable,” and Kṛṣṇa would take some and laugh. Similarly, Balarāma, Sudāmā and other friends would taste one another’s food and laugh. In this way, the friends very jubilantly began to eat their respective preparations brought from home.
Tasting a little of the different items brought from their houses, the boys would then call out to their friends. "O friend, Krsna, Sridama, Subala, see how tasty my bara is!" Saying this they would take from their plates and make Krsna and the others eat. This is the meaning rucim darsyantah. Stuffing some jasmine flower in the bada while no one was looking, a boy would say, "O friends, please taste these nice badas!" Believing his statement, they would take his food and eat it. When they started making faces because of the bitterness, the giver would laugh and make the receiver laugh. "Ca" indicates that the giver would get playfully beaten and run away.
The y showed the various excellences of their meals with different tastes and fragrances and different varieties of food by making various faces. They laughed and made others laughed. Though all the food brought from each of their houses was served to all the boys they made known individually the excellent taste of the food brought from their particular house. Meeting together the previous day, they had prepared for the meal in the forest. They showed the tastes generally so that the Lord would accept the items. Therefore the verse mentions “with the Lord.” They had him examine each item, sweet or not sweet, and then gave him small amounts one after the other or all at once, and had him eat them.
Like brothers swapping bites at the same table so that no one's tiffin stays private, the boys press their preparations onto Kṛṣṇa and onto each other — and laughter rises out of the trading. In sakhya, food is currency; nothing is hoarded.
My note
Source: vedabase.io