10.19 · Swallowing the Forest Fire

• krīḍā — play
  Kṛṣṇa's līlā with His sakhās is itself krīḍā — divine play, not idle distraction. Gauḍīyas read sakhya-rasa precisely here: the supreme Person is at play with His friends, and the rest of the universe is arranged around that play.
• āsakteṣu — completely absorbed
  From √sañj — the same root as saṅga. Ordinary saṅga binds; saṅga to Kṛṣṇa's play liberates. The boys' absorption is the Vraja-prototype of the kind of attachment bhakti is trying to cultivate.
• gopeṣu — among the cowherd boys
  Locative plural of gopa. The sakhās of Vraja — eternal associates in sakhya-rasa, not ordinary playmates. Their absorption is itself a rasa, not a lapse in duty.
• tṛṇa-lobhena — out of greed for grass
  Compound: tṛṇa (grass) + lobha (greed). The cows' single-minded pull toward more grass is the Bhāgavatam's gentle counter-image to the sakhās' single-minded pull toward Kṛṣṇa — both are absorption, but only one finds its true object.
• gahvaram — a dense forest
  A thicket — a place where things get lost. Vraja's forests are the līlā-stage on which Kṛṣṇa's protection is repeatedly demonstrated; the gahvara here will soon become the Īṣīkāṭavī of the next verse.

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The cowherd boys are so absorbed in play with Kṛṣṇa that the cows they were minding slip away into the deep forest — a Vraja image of how, once attention is fixed on Kṛṣṇa Himself, the secondary duties around Him almost manage themselves, until a līlā-arranged crisis calls everyone back. The Lord lets the cows wander so that a rescue may be staged.

• īṣīkā-aṭavīm — a forest of canes
  Compound: īṣīkā (reed, sharp cane) + aṭavī (forest). The same Muñjā/Īṣīkā region named in verse 5. Vraja's sacred geography: every wood is a specific stage for a specific līlā.
• nirviviśuḥ — they entered
  Intensive of √viś — entered deeply, plunged in. The verb mirrors the jīva's deeper and deeper entry into prakṛti when Kṛṣṇa is forgotten; here it sets the stage for His remembered protection.
• krandantyaḥ — crying out
  Present participle of √krand. In Gauḍīya theology the cry of a dependent (ārta-nāda) is itself the trigger for Kṛṣṇa's protective response — exactly as in Gajendra-mokṣa (SB 8.2–3) and Draupadī's call in the Sabhā.
• dāva — forest fire
  The Bhāgavatam's standing image for the heat of material existence (saṁsāra-dāvānala). Viśvanātha Cakravartī and Prabhupāda both read every dāva-līlā in Canto 10 as Kṛṣṇa's pedagogical drama about saṁsāra and śaraṇāgati.
• tarṣitāḥ — thirsty
  From √tṛṣ. Material thirst — never quenched by material water. The Gauḍīyas read such terms as pointing to the deeper tṛṣṇā for kṛṣṇa-prema that nothing else can satisfy.

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Goats, cows and buffalo pass from one forest to the next until they wander into a thicket of sharp canes, the heat of a forest fire scorching them — a Vraja picture of the jīva moving from one mode of material existence to another, vana to vana, until the heat of saṁsāra forces a cry. The cry itself is the beginning of the līlā's turn toward rescue.

• kṛṣṇa-rāma-ādayaḥ — led by Kṛṣṇa and Rāma
  Compound: Kṛṣṇa + Rāma (Balarāma) + ādayaḥ (and others). The two brothers are at the head of the search-party — not aloof from the boys' anxiety, but inside it. The Gauḍīya reading of avatāra is precisely this entry into the predicament.
• jāta-anutāpāḥ — feeling remorse
  Compound: jāta (arisen) + anutāpa (heat-after, regret). A tender Vraja-emotion — sakhya does not protect from the pain of having forgotten a duty. Even Kṛṣṇa, in His role, shares the remorse to deepen the rasa.
• vicinvantaḥ — searching out
  Intensive of √cit (to perceive, search). The boys move from absorption-in-play to active searching — sakhya's version of smṛti returning after a lapse.
• gatim — the path, the going
  From √gam. Gati can mean physical path or final destination; the Bhāgavatam often plays on both senses. Here the surface meaning is hoof-track; the undertone is the larger gati Kṛṣṇa is preparing — back to safety, back to Him.

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The very sakhās who minutes ago were playing with Kṛṣṇa now feel a sharp pang — they have neglected the cows — and search everywhere without finding them. Even in Vraja, even with Kṛṣṇa standing right there, the sweetness of His company can briefly eclipse a duty He has entrusted; the remorse is itself a feature of sakhya, not a failure of it.

• khura — by the hooves
  The cow's footprint — and in broader Vaiṣṇava theology a recurrent emblem (the dust of Vraja, the dust of cows, go-rajaḥ). Even the marks made by the cows of Vraja are precious; the boys read them as a sādhaka reads scripture.
• anvagaman — they followed
  Imperfect of anu-√gam. The whole Vaiṣṇava path is anugamana — following — never claiming origination. The boys' search is a sakhya-form of the same following devotees do behind the Lord and His associates.
• naṣṭa-ājīvyāḥ — having lost their livelihood
  Compound: naṣṭa (lost) + ājīvya (means of living). The cows are not pets; they are wealth, food, family, dharma. The boys' anxiety is not sentimental — it is the anxiety of a community whose entire economy is the gift of the cow.
• vicetasaḥ — in anxiety, scattered in mind
  From vi + cetas — mind pulled apart. A Vraja-shade of the same word the Gītā uses for the bewildered. Even the eternal sakhās of Kṛṣṇa enter such a state — by His arrangement — so that His rescue may be tasted.

The boys read the cows' path by hoofprints and bitten blades of grass — sakhya translated into forensic tenderness. Devotion has the same shape: when the Lord seems out of sight, the devotee traces His passage through the small marks He has left in scripture, in saintly biography, in the structure of one's own days.

• muñjā-aṭavyām — in the Muñjā forest
  Compound: muñjā (a type of reed grass, sharp) + aṭavī (forest). A specific stage in Vraja's sacred geography — the same region the boys had earlier crossed in the Pralambāsura episode (SB 10.18); the līlā keeps returning to its proper grounds.
• bhraṣṭa-mārgam — who had lost their way
  Compound: bhraṣṭa (fallen-off) + mārga (path). Used for the cows here, but the term resonates with every Bhāgavatam reference to the lost soul (cf. SB 11.5.4 on bhraṣṭa-mārgāḥ). The Lord's friends are sent to retrieve them.
• go-dhanam — wealth in the form of cows
  Compound: go (cow) + dhana (wealth). Vraja's true currency. Gauḍīyas note: Kṛṣṇa Himself takes the title Go-vinda — pleaser of cows — because their well-being is the standing test of His sevā-relationship with Vraja.
• sannyavartayan — they turned them all back
  Causative of sam + ni + √vṛt — caused them to fully turn back. Nivṛtti — turning back from material entanglement — is the verb's underlying force; the boys re-enact, on the surface of līlā, the inner turning every sādhaka must learn.

The Muñjā forest is where the cows are finally found — lost, crying, recovered. The Gauḍīya reading is plain: every soul that wanders into the canes and reeds of saṁsāra is sought out, named, and turned homeward by the boys of Vraja under Kṛṣṇa's gaze. The path back is the path the cows know — toward the village where Yaśodā waits.

• bhagavatā — by the Supreme Personality of Godhead
  Instrumental of Bhagavān — the full Person with all six opulences. The Bhāgavatam interrupts the narrative voice to remind us: the boy calling these cows is svayaṁ bhagavān (SB 1.3.28). Vraja's intimacy never cancels His full Godhood.
• megha-gambhīrayā — as deep as a cloud
  Compound: megha (cloud) + gambhīra (deep, grave). Kṛṣṇa's voice carries cloud-depth — and Vraja's whole iconography of Him as the dark cloud of mercy (śyāma-megha-varṇa) is in that adjective. The sound itself is rain to the parched cows.
• sva-nāmnām — of their own names
  Compound: sva (own) + nāmnām (genitive plural of nāman). He knows each cow by her name. Gauḍīyas amplify: the Lord knows every jīva personally; nāma is the means by which that personal knowing flows in both directions.
• pratineduḥ — they replied, they called back
  Perfect of prati + √nad — to sound in reply. Kīrtana is a prati-nāda, an answering sound. The cows' reply is the Bhāgavatam's prototype for the devotee's answering chant.
• praharṣitāḥ — greatly enlivened
  From pra + √hṛṣ. The bodily thrill (harṣa, romāñca) that Rūpa Gosvāmī classifies among the sāttvika-bhāvas. Even the cows of Vraja exhibit the symptoms of bhāva when Kṛṣṇa speaks their names.

Kṛṣṇa calls each cow by name in a voice like a thunder-cloud, and the cows — overjoyed at hearing themselves named — call back. This is the Vraja signature of nāma: the Lord knows His own by name, and the moment His voice falls on them they answer. Every kīrtana is the same exchange, scaled to the human throat.

• dava-dhūmaketuḥ — terrible forest fire (lit. forest-fire-with-smoke-as-its-banner)
  Compound: dava (forest fire) + dhūma-ketu (one whose banner is smoke — a standing epithet for fire). The Bhāgavatam's iconography: the fire marches like a king under a smoke-flag. Vraja's līlās constantly translate metaphysical realities into vivid pictures.
• kṣaya-kṛt — threatening destruction
  Compound: kṣaya (destruction) + kṛt (maker). The fire is figured as an active agent of dissolution — a small-scale pralaya. Kṛṣṇa's swallowing of it (verse 12) is correspondingly a small-scale display of His role as the in-drawer of universes.
• sārathinā — by its chariot driver (the wind)
  The wind is figured as the fire's charioteer — Vraja's poetic precision. Where the Gītā has Kṛṣṇa as Arjuna's chariot driver, Iṣīkāṭavī has the wind as the fire's. The contrast is theological: who drives the chariot decides where the journey ends.
• ulmukaiḥ — with meteorlike sparks, with firebrands
  Sparks that fly like meteors. The detail underlines the boys' real terror — this is not a poetic fire but a physical one with shooting embers — which makes the rescue concrete, not metaphorical.
• sthira-jaṅgamān — all moving and nonmoving creatures
  Compound: sthira (unmoving) + jaṅgama (moving). A standard Sanskrit dvandva for the whole creaturely order. The fire spares nothing; only Bhagavān's intervention will.

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A great forest fire arises out of nowhere, driven by the wind like a chariot driver, its sparks licking everything that moves or stands still — the Bhāgavatam's standing image for saṁsāra-dāvānala, the blazing wildfire of material existence, which surrounds every embodied creature on all sides until the Lord of Vraja steps forward to swallow it.

• dava-agnim — the forest fire
  Compound: dava (forest) + agni (fire). Together with mṛtyu-bhaya in the next line, this is one half of the Bhāgavatam's standing diptych: material existence as a blazing fire under the shadow of death.
• prapannāḥ — taking shelter
  From pra + √pad — to fall forward, surrender. The technical Vaiṣṇava term for śaraṇāgati. The verse explicitly likens the boys' movement to prapatti before Hari — this is the doctrine in action, not theory.
• harim — the Supreme Personality of Godhead
  Hari — "He who removes" (sin, fear, material entanglement). Used here precisely because removal is what is needed. Kṛṣṇa as Hari is the standard Bhāgavatam name when śaraṇāgati is the theme.
• mṛtyu-bhaya-arditāḥ — troubled by fear of death
  Compound: mṛtyu (death) + bhaya (fear) + ardita (afflicted). The deepest ordinary fear of every conditioned soul. The verse uses it as the gold standard against which the boys' Vraja-fear is measured.
• sa-balam — along with Balarāma
  Compound: sa- (with) + Bala (Balarāma). Even in the most acute moment, Balarāma is at Kṛṣṇa's side — the Bhāgavatam's standing reminder that protection in Vraja is dual: Kṛṣṇa's mercy backed by Balarāma's strength.

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The boys watch the fire on every side, become afraid, and turn at once to Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma — the verse itself draws the comparison: just as those tormented by fear of death approach Hari. The natural movement of fear in Vraja is not to brace, not to plan, but to run toward Kṛṣṇa. This is the prototype of śaraṇāgati that the rest of the Bhāgavatam will keep dramatizing.

• kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa — O Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa
  Vocative, doubled. Gauḍīyas treasure the repetition: the mahā-mantra itself doubles the names. The boys' frightened doubling is the form mahā-mantra takes when the throat cannot manage anything else.
• mahā-vīra — O most powerful one
  Compound: mahā (great) + vīra (hero). They call on His strength in the moment of weakness — the precise grammar of śaraṇāgati. One does not appeal to one's own vīrya; one appeals to His.
• amogha-vikrama — You whose prowess is never thwarted
  Compound: a- (not) + mogha (futile) + vikrama (prowess). Every Vaiṣṇava prayer rests on this conviction: Kṛṣṇa's saving action never fails. Without amogha-vikrama, prapatti would be a gamble.
• prapannān — who are surrendered
  Past participle of pra + √pad — the surrendered ones. The same word the Gītā uses at 18.66 (mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja). The boys explicitly identify themselves under this title to claim its corresponding protection.
• trātum arhathaḥ — please save
  Infinitive of √trai (to protect) + arhathaḥ (You two ought to). The dual ending addresses both Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma. The grammar enacts what the boys know — protection in Vraja is given by both brothers.

The boys' cry — Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! O Rāma! — is the rawest Vraja form of nāma-saṅkīrtana: repeated name, no philosophy, no theology, just the Beloved called twice. Caitanya tradition holds this as the highest emergency-mantra: when surrounded by the fire of saṁsāra, repeat the name and trust the prowess that has never failed.

• bāndhavāḥ — friends, kin
  From √bandh (to bind). Bāndhava is one bound to you by relation. The boys do not say "devotees" — they say kin. Sakhya-rasa speaks in kinship terms; Vraja's intimacy refuses formal religious vocabulary at the critical moment.
• avasāditum — to suffer destruction
  Infinitive of ava + √sad — to be sunk down, destroyed. Their argument: friends of Yours cannot, by Your own nature, be allowed to sink. They argue from His character, not their own merit — the structure of every śaraṇāgata's plea.
• sarva-dharma-jña — O perfect knower of the nature of all beings
  Compound: sarva (all) + dharma (nature, duty) + jña (knower). The exact vocative used when calling on Him as the One who already understands what is right — He cannot pretend He does not see.
• tvat-nāthāḥ — having You as our Lord
  Compound: tvat (Your) + nātha (lord, protector). One of the six limbs of śaraṇāgati is goptṛtve varaṇam — accepting Him as one's protector. The boys recite it: You are our nātha; protection is now Your office, not optional.
• tvat-parāyaṇaḥ — devoted to You
  Compound: tvat (Your) + parāyaṇa (highest resort, supreme refuge). Stronger than "devoted": You are our last resort, our farthest reach. The same word that the Gītā uses for the perfected bhakta (BG 9.34, 18.65).

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Your friends, Kṛṣṇa — surely they should not be destroyed. The boys appeal not to Kṛṣṇa's general mercy but to His specific relationship with them: bāndhavāḥ, tvat-nāthāḥ, tvat-parāyaṇaḥ — Your friends, having You as Lord, devoted to You. This is the Gauḍīya shape of prayer: not abstract piety but invocation of a known, named, relational bond.

• bhagavān — the Supreme Personality of Godhead
  The Bhāgavatam tags Him with His full title precisely at the moment He gives a simple two-word instruction. Bhagavān-tattva is not in elaboration; it is in the unquestioned authority of a brief command.
• hariḥ — Hari (the one who removes)
  The name is theological: He removes fear, sin, danger. Used here exactly when removal is about to be enacted — the fire will be removed, the fear will be removed.
• nimīlayata — just close
  Imperative of ni + √mīl — close (the eyes). The shortest instruction in Vraja. Gauḍīyas read it as a parable: certain operations of His grace require that the devotee stop trying to see and simply trust.
• mā bhaiṣṭa — do not be afraid
  Prohibitive (mā + aorist of √bhī). The Lord's standing assurance — the same phrase echoes in Bhagavad-gītā 18.66 (mā śucaḥ), in Gajendra-mokṣa, in Arjuna's reassurance. Two words; the entire content of śaraṇāgati's reverse-side.
• kṛpaṇam — pitiful
  From √kṛp — to be pitied. The boys' cry was kṛpaṇa — and the sixth limb of śaraṇāgati is precisely kārpaṇya, the acknowledgment of one's helplessness. Their prayer fulfilled the limb; His response was instant.

Kṛṣṇa hears the pitiful cry of His friends and answers with two short commands: close your eyes, do not be afraid. The Vraja signature: protection is not preceded by explanation. The devotee is told to surrender even his sight, and the Lord does the rest behind the eyelids.

• mīlita-akṣeṣu — their eyes closed
  Compound: mīlita (closed) + akṣa (eye). The boys' obedience is total: a one-word instruction, immediate compliance. Gauḍīyas read this as the model speed of śaraṇāgati — no negotiation, no delay.
• agnim-ulbaṇam — the terrible fire
  Noun-adjective pair: agni (fire) + ulbaṇa (terrible). Not a poetic fire but the real, raging Iṣīkāṭavī blaze. The horror is preserved so that the rescue is not abstract.
• pītvā — drinking, having drunk
  Gerund of √pā (to drink). Kṛṣṇa does not extinguish the fire from outside — He drinks it. The same verb is used of the gopīs drinking the nectar of His face. The Bhāgavatam's vocabulary is consistent: in Vraja, the highest action is drinking.
• yoga-adhīśaḥ — the supreme controller of all mystic power
  Compound: yoga (mystic power) + adhīśa (supreme controller). The title appears precisely at the moment of the miracle. The Gītā's yogeśvara (BG 18.78) and the Bhāgavatam's yoga-adhīśa are the same Person — and Vraja is His native ground, not an exception to His sovereignty.
• vyamocayat — He delivered, He freed
  Causative of vi + √muc — caused to be released. The same verbal root as mukti. Vraja's surface narrative — saving boys from a fire — is the Bhāgavatam's inner narrative — Bhagavān releasing the surrendered from saṁsāra.

The boys say "all right" and close their eyes; Kṛṣṇa opens His mouth and drinks the fire. The mouth that the gopīs feed with butter, that Yaśodā saw the universes in, here swallows the saṁsāra-fire whole. This is yoga-adhīśvara in one gesture: the master of all mystic power dispatches a cosmic emergency between two blinks.

• unmīlya — opening
  Gerund of ud + √mīl — opening upward. The exact reverse of nimīlayata in verse 11. The līlā has a precise grammar of closing and opening — the eyes close on a fire, open on a tree.
• bhāṇḍīram — to (the) Bhāṇḍīra (tree)
  The specific banyan tree of Vraja under which many Kṛṣṇa-līlās are set, including the killing of Pralambāsura earlier in this same canto (SB 10.18). Vraja's geography is the same in danger and in safety — only the Lord's grace shifts.
• vismitāḥ — amazed
  From vi + √smi — to be astonished, to forget oneself. Vraja's hallmark response to Kṛṣṇa's deeds: not analysis but wonder. The Gauḍīyas place vismaya among the eight ecstatic responses (sāttvika-bhāvas).
• mocitāḥ — saved, freed
  Past participle of √muc. The same root as mukti, vyamocayat (verse 12). The Bhāgavatam keeps the verbal field consistent: Kṛṣṇa's act of saving His friends in the forest is grammatically identical to His act of liberating souls.

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The boys open their eyes and find themselves not only saved but standing again at the Bhāṇḍīra tree, the cows safe beside them. Vraja's protection is not partial: the Lord does not merely extinguish the danger, He restores the original setting — as if the fire had been a parenthesis closed without trace.

• yoga-vīryam — the mystic power
  Compound: yoga (mystic union, power) + vīrya (potency). Kṛṣṇa's vīrya — His specific power — is here labeled yoga-vīrya. The Gītā's vibhūti-yoga elaborates the same category.
• yoga-māyā — His internal power of illusion
  Compound: yoga + māyā. Crucial Gauḍīya distinction: yoga-māyā is Kṛṣṇa's internal potency that arranges and protects His līlās, opposite of mahā-māyā which deludes conditioned souls. Here yoga-māyā lets the sakhās keep mistaking Him for a peer.
• anubhāvitam — effected
  Past participle of anu + √bhū with causal force — brought about. The miracle is anubhāvita — accomplished — by yoga-māyā. Vraja's miracles are not random; they are crafted by His own internal power.
• kṣemam — the deliverance, the welfare
  From √kṣi (to abide, dwell safely). Kṣema is the Gītā's word for what Kṛṣṇa promises to His bhakta (yoga-kṣemaṁ vahāmy aham, BG 9.22). The Bhāgavatam narrates the promise being kept.
• amaram — a demigod
  Literally "deathless one" — a deva. The boys think Kṛṣṇa is one of these. Gauḍīyas savor the irony: He is the source of all amaras (SB 1.3.28), not one among them. Their mistake is the rasa's protection.

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The boys, seeing themselves saved by Kṛṣṇa's mystic power, conclude that He must be a demigod — and that very mis-conclusion is the genius of Vraja-rasa. Sakhya is preserved by precisely such forgetfulness: if they remembered Him fully as Bhagavān, the play would collapse into formal worship. Yoga-māyā keeps the rasa intact.

• sāya-ahne — in the late afternoon
  Compound: sāya (evening) + ahne (locative of ahar, day). Vraja's specific hour — when the cows return, when the gopīs wait, when the dust of the herd rises. Gauḍīya rāgānuga-meditation often centers on this hour (sāyaṁ-kālīya-līlā).
• janārdanaḥ — Śrī Kṛṣṇa
  Literally jana-ardana — one who agitates / extinguishes (the demonic among) people. A standard Bhāgavatam title, here understated: He has just swallowed a forest fire; the name is no exaggeration.
• veṇum — His flute
  From √veṇ. The single most concentrated emblem of Vraja-mādhurya. After every līlā, the flute returns. Rūpa Gosvāmī devotes whole works to its sound — the call by which the gopīs are drawn.
• viraṇayan — playing in a specific way
  Causative present participle of vi + √raṇ — making sound in a particular pattern. Vraja's poetry is precise: He does not just play, He plays viraṇayan — a particular tune for the homeward hour.
• abhiṣṭutaḥ — being praised
  Past participle of abhi + √stu — to praise toward. The boys, walking beside Him, praise Him aloud. This is sakhya-saṅkīrtana — the cowherd-boy form of nāma-saṅkīrtana, the first answer to having been saved.

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Late afternoon, the danger past, Kṛṣṇa turns the cows toward home, plays His flute in a special way, and walks back to the village with His friends praising Him. The whole crisis closes on the sound of the flute. This is Vraja's signature ending — every storm resolves into the veṇu-gīta and the homeward path to Yaśodā.

• gopīnām — of the young cowherd girls
  Genitive plural of gopī. The mādhurya-rasa exemplars — the highest devotees in Gauḍīya theology. The Bhāgavatam ends the chapter on them, signaling whose perspective Vraja's day finally belongs to.
• parama-ānandaḥ — the greatest happiness
  Compound: parama (supreme) + ānanda (bliss). Not ordinary joy. Gauḍīyas distinguish brahmānanda (impersonal bliss) from bhajanānanda (the bliss of personal service); the gopīs' joy is the highest form of the latter, far beyond brahmānanda.
• govinda-darśane — in seeing Govinda
  Compound: Govinda (pleaser of cows / found by the senses) + darśana (sight). The name Govinda is chosen — He has just come home with the cows He saved. Brahma-saṁhitā opens on this very name: govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.
• yuga-śatam — a hundred millenniums
  Compound: yuga + śata (hundred). The unit of measurement is cosmic, the duration measured is a single nimeṣa. Mādhurya-rasa breaks ordinary metric: time bends to the shape of love. The technical seed of vipralambha.
• vinā — without
  Indeclinable: without, in the absence of. The whole verse hinges on this one word. Vraja's love is defined as much by His absence (vipralambha) as by His presence (sambhoga); Rūpa Gosvāmī's rasa-theory rests on this distinction.

• Revati Raman Pr SB 10-19-16 - 2010-09-10 ISKCON Tirupati
  His Grace Revati Raman Prabhu· 2010-09-10· Telugu

The young gopīs, deprived of His sight even for a moment, experience that moment as a hundred ages — and when Govinda comes home in the dust of the cows, their joy is parama-ānanda. This is mādhurya-rasa in its most condensed grammar: separation stretches time, reunion compresses it; both are the same love measured from opposite sides.