Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.20.39
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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aham-mamatām
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egotism and possessiveness ('I' and 'mine')
Compound: aham (I) + mama (mine) + tā (-ness). The classical pair-diagnosis of conditioned existence (cf. Gītā 2.71). Gauḍīyas insist: śuddha aham-mamatā remains in bhakti — I am Kṛṣṇa's, He is mine — but the referents are corrected.
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dhīrāḥ
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sober ones
Dhīra — steady, intelligent, sober. The Bhāgavatam's word for one who can perceive the body-soul distinction. Gauḍīyas note: dhīra is necessary but not sufficient — without bhakti, dhīratā is just clean impersonalism.
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śarīra-ādiṣu
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with regard to the body and so on
Compound locative: śarīra (body) + ādi (etcetera). The ādi extends to mind, intellect, false ego — all the koṣas. Gauḍīyas read the whole catalogue as the field of viveka.
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anātmasu
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with regard to non-self things
An + ātma + locative plural. The bodies, possessions, identities that are not the ātmā. Gauḍīyas note: even śarīra is anātmā, and this is the fundamental Bhāgavatam distinction (3.31 — yan na duhkhena sambhinnam).
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āmam
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unripe
Āma — raw, unripe (cf. āma in āyurveda). The earth's plants ripen out of unripeness. Gauḍīyas use āma also for half-digested saṁskāras — bhakti is the cooking that finishes them.
The word ādiṣu in this verse indicates the by-products of the body, such as children, home and wealth.
As the intelligent person gives up everything unrelated to the soul, paramatma and Krsna (anatmasu), that is everything related to the body, false ego and possessiveness, and tries to develop attachment to Krsna, so the fields water bodies give up a dirty state and plants give up their unripe state.
Possessiveness is compared to the mud because it is external and identity of aham is compared to the immature plant because it is internal.
Gradually land and the plants give up their immature condition. Similarly the wise give up possessiveness of body, sons etc. which are different from the ātmā. This is because they are wise, having discrimination. Possessiveness is compared to the mud because it is external and identity of aham is compared to the immature plant because it is internal.
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Earth gives up its mud and plants ripen out of unripeness — like sober souls giving up ahaṁ-mamatā regarding the body. The verse names exactly the Vedānta-target: false identification with deha. Gauḍīyas qualify: Kṛṣṇa-bhakti does not abolish ahaṁ but reorients it — śuddha-ahaṁ is 'I am Kṛṣṇa's servant,' not 'I am no one.'
My note
Source: vedabase.io