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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.38.35

భగవద్ దర్శనాహ్లాదబాష్పపర్యాకులేక్షణ: । పులకాచితాఙ్గ ఔత్కణ్ఠ్యాత్స్వాఖ్యానే నాశకన్నృప ॥ ౩౫ ॥
bhagavad-darśanāhlāda-
[bhagavad-darshanaahlaada-]
bāṣpa-paryākulekṣaṇaḥ
[baashpa-paryaakulekshanah]
pulakacitāṅga autkaṇṭhyāt
[pulakachitaanga autkanthyaat]
svākhyāne nāśakan nṛpa
[svaakhyaane naashakan nripa]
bhagavat — the Supreme Personality of Godhead darśana — because of seeing āhlāda — due to the joy bāṣpa — with tears paryākula — overflowing īkṣaṇaḥ — whose eyes pulaka — with eruptions ācita — marked aṅgaḥ — whose limbs autkaṇṭhyāt — from eagerness sva - ākhyāne — to announce himself na aśakat — he was not able nṛpa — O King .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
bhagavad-darśanāhlāda-
bhagavat
the Supreme Personality of Godhead
darśana
because of seeing
āhlāda
due to the joy
bāṣpa-paryākulekṣaṇaḥ
bāṣpa
with tears
paryākula
overflowing
īkṣaṇaḥ
whose eyes
pulakacitāṅga autkaṇṭhyāt
pulaka
with eruptions
ācita
marked
aṅgaḥ
whose limbs
autkaṇṭhyāt
from eagerness
svākhyāne nāśakan nṛpa
sva - ākhyāne
to announce himself
na aśakat
he was not able
nṛpa
O King .
  • bhagavat — the Supreme Personality of Godhead
    Bhagavat — bearing the six opulences. Gauḍīyas hold tightly to this specific term against impersonalist substitutions. Even the moment of speechlessness is named with the most fully-personal title.
  • āhlāda — due to the joy
    Returning from v.26 — the same hlādinī-rooted joy, now intensified by direct darśana rather than darśana of footprints. Gauḍīyas note the deliberate echo: the chapter measures Akrūra's ascent by re-using its key word at higher intensity.
  • bāṣpa — with tears
    Vapor, tears. The sāttvika-bhāva of aśru, returning. Gauḍīyas regard the persistent flow of bhakti-tears (not occasional welling) as a marker of bhāva matured into something more permanent.
  • pulaka — with eruptions, with horripilation
    The standing-up of hairs, one of the eight sāttvika-bhāvas of bhakti-rasa. Gauḍīyas hold pulaka as a particularly reliable index — it is involuntary, immediate, and visible. Rūpa Gosvāmī enumerates it among the prime symptoms.
  • autkaṇṭhyāt — from eagerness
    From utkaṇṭhā — longing, eagerness. A specific rasa-vocabulary term: the longing of separation or anticipation. Gauḍīyas treasure utkaṇṭhā as a precondition for darśana; without it, even the meeting is shallow.
  • sva - ākhyāne — to announce himself
    Compound: sva (own) + ākhyāna (announcement, declaration). The conventional self-introduction Akrūra cannot perform. Gauḍīyas read this as a quiet teaching: the bhakta meets Bhagavān not by introducing himself but by being read.
The joy of seeing the Supreme Lord flooded Akrūra’s eyes with tears and decorated his limbs with eruptions of ecstasy. He felt such eagerness that he could not speak to present himself, O King.
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
The joy of seeing the Supreme Lord flooded Akrūra's eyes with tears and decorated his limbs with eruptions of ecstasy. He felt such eagerness that he could not speak to present himself, O King.
Commentary

Akrura could not introduce himself properly, saying, "I, Akrura, offer my respects to you."

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

The results of his prema are described. Because his eyes were filled with tears, he could not see at all. Autkaṇṭhyāt literally means “because of throat from which sounds have departed.” Because he was voiceless he could not announce himself, what to speak explain why he was there.

Śrīdhara Svāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

The cause of only offering respects on the ground because of intense prema is described. This indicates the extent of his prema. He had profuse tears in his eyes so that he could not see. His hairs stood on end profusely because of the lack of control produced by prema. He could not speak, what to speak of offering respects properly. Hi means certainly. O king! This expresses Akrūra’s good fortune or he comforts Parīkṣit who is overcome with prema on hearing of Akrūra’s great prema.

Related values
Anahankarah (Freedom from False Ego)Kshama (Forgiveness / Patience)Aparigraha (Non-possessiveness)Atma Nigraha (Self-control)Tyaga (Renunciation / Letting Go)
Related verses

A man who has prepared an entire speech finds, when the moment arrives, that the speech has dissolved — his eyes do the talking, his stood-up hairs introduce him. Bhakti's apex is paradoxically wordless; the body, finally, becomes more eloquent than the tongue.

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