Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.23.33
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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śravaṇāt
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by hearing
Ablative of śravaṇa. The first of the nine bhakti-aṅgas (Bhāgavatam 7.5.23). Kṛṣṇa names it first — śravaṇa is what built the wives' bhāva (verses 18, 20-21), so He prescribes more of it.
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darśanāt
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by seeing the Deity form
Ablative of darśana. The Gauḍīya gloss is precise: not just any seeing but darśana of the arcā-vigraha. Kṛṣṇa anticipates Deity-worship as the practice these women can perform at home.
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dhyānāt
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by meditation
Ablative of dhyāna. Smaraṇa in technical form. The inner image of Kṛṣṇa as the working object — exactly what verse 22 (the dhyāna-mūrti description) supplied.
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bhāvaḥ
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love
From √bhū. Bhāva — the inner state. Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu identifies bhāva as the immediate pre-cursor of prema. Kṛṣṇa names the goal-state by its proper technical name.
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anukīrtanāt
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by chanting My names and qualities
Ablative of anu + √kīrt. Anukīrtana — continuous, following kīrtana. The exact word Mahāprabhu's Śikṣāṣṭaka echoes. Bhāva's strongest cultivator is the tongue's repetition of the Name.
Hearing Krsna’s words, they understood his wish and they left. However the gopis of the rasa dance, though understanding his word and desire, remained with Krsna. From this it is understood that in prema, there is certainly never any loss.
The four chambers of one heart-pump: śravaṇa, darśana, dhyāna, kīrtana — Kṛṣṇa names the means of His own attainability. He hands over the manual in His own hand, to women, in the forest, on the eve of dispatching them home.
King Ambarīṣa, ruler of the earth, fixed his mind on Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet, his words on Kṛṣṇa's qualities, his hands on Kṛṣṇa's temple-service, his ears on Kṛṣṇa's stories — and so on through every faculty (SB 9.4.18-20).
This verse is the same teaching given to the brāhmaṇa-wives moments before they return to ritual life: bhakti is not located in your physical address but in where śravaṇa, darśana, dhyāna and anukīrtana point your attention.
My note
Source: vedabase.io