Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.32.7
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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animiṣat
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unblinking
From a-nimiṣ — not blinking. The demigods are called animiṣa because they do not blink; the gopī here borrows their attribute. Viśvanātha glosses: at darśana of Kṛṣṇa even the eyelids surrender, refusing to interrupt the stream by even one blink.
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juṣāṇā
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relishing
Present participle of √juṣ — to enjoy, relish, savor. Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu uses √juṣ for the way bhāva is tasted in the heart. The verb names tasting as a continuous act, not a completed swallow.
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mukha - ambujam
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lotus face
Compound: mukha (face) + ambuja (lotus). Kṛṣṇa's face is repeatedly compared to the lotus in Bhāgavata; here it is the object of drinking, which only deepens the lotus image — His face is the lotus the bee of the gopī's eye cannot leave.
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na atṛpyat
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she did not become satiated
Negation + imperfect of √tṛp (to be satisfied). The grammatical contrast with material objects is precise: material objects produce tṛpti and then aversion; Kṛṣṇa produces increasing hunger forever. This is the lakṣaṇa of brahmānanda's bhakti-supersession Rūpa Gosvāmī teaches.
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santaḥ
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mystic saints
Plural of sant — the truly existent, the saintly. In Bhāgavata usage santaḥ are the realized devotees. The comparison flatters the saints, not the gopī: she is being likened to them, but Gauḍīya commentary reads the simile as 'they merely approach what she lives.'
Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura explains that the analogy given here of saintly persons meditating upon the Lord’s feet is only partially applicable, since the ecstasy the gopīs felt when Kṛṣṇa came back was actually unparalleled. Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī also reveals that this particular gopī is the most fortunate of all, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.
One gopi gazed at Krsna with unblinking eyes, due to being stunned with bliss. Like bees mad to taste lotus honey of face, her two eyes, though relishing his face, were not satisfied. Or this verse can be interepreted in another way. Because of the fierce glance of Radha mentioned in the previous verse, his face was trembling with fear and remorseful. Therefore that gopi could not be satisfied, though tasting repeatedly that face relished by her two eyes. Though Krsna’s face is an ocean of sweetness, at that time, because of the mixture of the sancari bhavas such as shyness, despair, meekness and fear, because of being struck with the arrow glance of the leader of her group, the ocean of sweetness increased to the extreme with great variety. The gopi could not be satisfied because of her increased thirst. For lacking a complete example (covering the second interpretation as well as the first) to illustrate this, an example covering the first interpretation is given. Just as devotees situated in the dasya and sakkya bhavas though they serve Krsna’s lotus feet repeatedly, cannot be completely satisfied, so this gopi also could not be satisfied. It should be understood that Krsna cast his full glance and full mind upon that gopi who was glaring at him with furrowed brows, and did not divert himself to any one else at all. Seeing Krsna was inattentive to herself, the gopi mentioned in this verse without shyness looked at Krsna directly and leisurely with both eyes. In other words, that gopi pouring down arrows of glances at Krsna, Radha, was the most fortunate in all ways.
One gopī relished (juṣānā) his lotus face. She completely relished his face, with her eyes like a tongue tasting the sweetness of the beauty of his lotus face. By comparing her eyes to a tongue, her great attachment to his sweetness is shown. Śānta bhaktas here means devotees fixed in dāsya-bhakti. They can never be satisfied on seeing the Lord directly. The example is given only to show that (not that she had dāsya-bhakti). The difference here is that the beauty of his face indicating his sweetness with various bhāvas acted as the uddīpana or stimulus. Because she looked at him face on, she is a prakharā gopī, susakhya and vāma, and an independent woman since she stays in her own place thinking “He will come to meet me.”
Another gopī looked with affection at his face. She drank (āpītam) his nectar like a bee. This means she looked with complete absorption, in great affection. She was not fully satisfied just as the dāsya devotees, or the devotees with madhura-rasa, fixed in prema (santaḥ), are not fully satisfied with the Lord’s lotus feet. The similarity is in not being satisfied. The others are satisfied with his feet, but they are greedy for the nectar of his lips. Thus they have attraction for his face. That is their special prema. Since the other devotees do not experience the softness of his feet, in this verse lotus is not mentioned with his feet (tac-caraṇam).
One gopī drinks Kṛṣṇa's lotus face with unblinking eyes and is never full — like munis who taste His feet in samādhi and remain forever thirsty. Bhakti's distinctive sweetness is exactly this: that fullness does not cancel hunger. Vraja-prema scales without saturating.
When Sanaka, Sanātana, Sanandana, and Sanat-kumāra entered Vaikuṇṭha and beheld Nārāyaṇa, the fragrance of tulasī from His feet alone converted them — lifelong impersonalists — into eternal Vaiṣṇavas. The Bhāgavatam reports they tasted His feet 'as if drinking with their eyes' and were not satiated (SB 3.15).
This verse compares the gopī's drinking of Kṛṣṇa's face to exactly that saintly meditation — but locates it higher, because the gopī sees His face directly, not in samādhi.
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Source: vedabase.io