Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.38.26
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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āhlāda
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by the ecstasy
Āhlāda — the spontaneous joy that exceeds ordinary sukha. Gauḍīyas identify āhlāda with hlādinī-śakti, Bhagavān's pleasure-energy whose personification is Rādhā. To feel āhlāda before His footprints is to be touched by that internal energy.
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sambhramaḥ
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agitation
Reverent confusion, awe-shaken trembling. Distinct from fear; sambhrama is the over-spilling reverence that loses social composure. Gauḍīyas list sambhrama among the sāttvika-vikāras of bhāva-bhakti.
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premṇā
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out of pure love
Instrumental of prema. The mature stage of bhakti — bhāva ripened into permanent love. Gauḍīyas distinguish prema sharply from kāma and from generic love; Akrūra at this moment is in the lower border of prema, possibly higher.
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ūrdhva
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standing erect
Upward — describing the hairs of the body. One of the eight classic sāttvika-bhāvas: roma-harṣa (hair standing on end). Gauḍīyas regard these bodily transformations as the involuntary signs of bhāva — the body's testimony beyond words.
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aśru - kalā
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with teardrops
Compound: aśru (tear) + kalā (drop, particle). Another of the sāttvika-bhāvas — aśru, the involuntary tears of devotion. Gauḍīyas distinguish bhakti-aśru from sorrow-tears: these arise in joy.
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prabhoḥ
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of my master
Genitive of prabhu — master. The single word Akrūra cries out as he rolls. Gauḍīyas note that the dāsya-rasa speaks here at its most concentrated: not Kṛṣṇa's name, not an epithet, just "my Lord's." The pronoun does the love.
Seeing those footprints, with excessive tears in his eyes (asrunam kala), he jutmped from the chariot. He rolled (acestita) in the dust of those footprints while weeping. With choked voice he said, "What fortune, to attain such rare things."
He was in a state of agitation (sambhramaḥ) in which he could not carry out necessary inquiry. Thus he rolled among the foot prints. The phrase “out of prema” should be repeated for all the phrases. Because of prema he was agitated with joy, because of prema his eyes filled with tears and because of prema he rolled in the foot prints. The word aho expresses the rareness of seeing those foot prints. The word iti indicates that the whole last line was what Akrūra said.
A son who has wandered for years sees, in the dirt of his lost village, his own father's footprint — and forgets every protocol of dignity. The chariot, the office, the city errand drop from him; he is on the ground, eyes wet, repeating one word: prabhoḥ — my master, my master.
When Caitanya Mahāprabhu first reached Vṛndāvana on His pilgrimage, He could not walk normally — He rolled on the ground, weeping, smearing the dust on His body, embracing the trees, calling out to Kṛṣṇa. The Caitanya-caritāmṛta records that He could not be restrained.
Gauḍīyas read Akrūra's behavior in this verse as the foreshadowing of Mahāprabhu's mood. The same dust, the same loss of decorum before it. This is what darśana of the dhāma does to a real bhakta: the body simply gives up its containers.
My note
Source: vedabase.io