Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.24.4
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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śuśrūṣave
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eager to hear
Desiderative of √śru — 'one who desires to hear.' The same root that gives śuśrūṣā, the disciple's hearing-service. Kṛṣṇa places Himself in the disciple's posture before His father, modeling śravaṇa even as He is about to instruct.
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gopyam
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to be hidden
Gerundive of √gup. Note the wordplay: gopa-s should have nothing gopya among them — those whose very name comes from 'protection' have no secrets to protect from one another. Kṛṣṇa works the etymology gently.
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sādhūnām
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of the saintly
Genitive plural of sādhu. Gauḍīya force: a sādhu is not merely 'a good person' but one fixed in bhajana whose vision has been corrected — sama-darśana flows from kṛṣṇa-darśana, not from neutrality.
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sarva - ātmanām
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of those who see all as themselves
Compound: sarva (all) + ātmanām (selves). Not Advaitin identity-collapse — the Gauḍīya reading is sama-darśana rooted in seeing Kṛṣṇa as the antaryāmī of every being (Gītā 6.30). Equal vision, personalist ground.
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asva - para - dṛṣṭīnām
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of those who have no 'mine and others' vision
Compound: a- (not) + sva (mine) + para (others) + dṛṣṭi (vision). The sādhu's eye does not partition the world into property and outsiders. The very vice the indra-yāga, as karma-kāṇḍa, secretly trades in — mine, my rain, my fruit — is what Kṛṣṇa is preparing to expose.
Lord Kṛṣṇa’s father might have thought that his son was a mere child and thus could not properly question the validity of a Vedic sacrifice. But the Lord’s clever statement here would certainly have convinced Nanda that Śrī Kṛṣṇa was making a serious, not a whimsical, inquiry and that a serious answer should thus be given.
If the answer is given, "We are about to perform a sacrifice. We are busy preparing for this." Then he would ask, "What is the purpose of this sacrifice? Who is the devata to be worshipped through this sacrifice ? who will perform, and with what materials?" "What is the purpose of the questions of a boy like you?" "I have a great desire to know (mahakama)." Or the meaning can be "As you are showing great expectations, therefore please tell me because I want to hear."
A saintly grandfather is asked a household question and answers without selection — he has no private accounts, no hidden ledgers, no friends he favors or enemies he hides things from. Kṛṣṇa appeals to this picture of the sādhu to draw the truth out of Nanda: among such persons, He says, nothing is held back.
When Duryodhana stripped Draupadī and the elders fell silent, Vidura alone spoke — not to a friend, not at an enemy, but to dharma as he saw it (Mahābhārata, Sabhā-parva). His counsel was uncolored by side, and for that reason it was heard even by those it cut.
Kṛṣṇa is invoking exactly this kind of speech here: not the partisan word but the sādhu's word, which has no 'mine' and 'theirs' inside it.
My note
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