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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.38.6

మమాద్యామఙ్గలం నష్టం ఫలవాంశ్చైవ మే భవ: । యన్నమస్యే భగవతో యోగిధ్యేయాఙ్‍‍‍‍‍ఘ్రిపఙ్కజమ్ ॥ ౬ ॥
mamādyāmaṅgalaṁ naṣṭaṁ
[mamaadyaamangalam nashtam]
phalavāṁś caiva me bhavaḥ
[phalavaamsh chaiva me bhavah]
yan namasye bhagavato
[yan namasye bhagavato]
yogi-dhyeyānghri-paṅkajam
[yogi-dhyeyaanghri-pankajam]
mama — my adya — today amaṅgalam — inauspicious sinful reactions naṣṭam — eradicated phala - vān — fruitful ca — and eva — indeed me — my bhavaḥ — birth yat — since namasye — I am going to offer obeisances bhagavataḥ — of the Supreme Lord yogi - dhyeya — meditated upon by yogīs aṅghri — to the feet paṅkajam — lotuslike .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
mamādyāmaṅgalaṁ naṣṭaṁ
mama
my
adya
today
amaṅgalam
inauspicious sinful reactions
naṣṭam
eradicated
phalavāṁś caiva me bhavaḥ
phala - vān
fruitful
ca
and
eva
indeed
me
my
bhavaḥ
birth
yan namasye bhagavato
yat
since
namasye
I am going to offer obeisances
bhagavataḥ
of the Supreme Lord
yogi-dhyeyānghri-paṅkajam
yogi - dhyeya
meditated upon by yogīs
aṅghri
to the feet
paṅkajam
lotuslike .
  • amaṅgalam — inauspicious, sinful reactions
    a- (not) + maṅgala (auspicious). The full weight of karma-bondage that the Bhāgavata says is destroyed by even a single act of remembering Kṛṣṇa. Akrūra reads his impending darśana as the saṁcita-karma-bonfire.
  • phala - vān — fruitful
    Compound: phala (fruit) + vān (possessing). The human birth becomes phala-vat only by serving Bhagavān — Bhāgavata's persistent teaching (cf. SB 5.5.1). Akrūra dates his birth's success not from the day he was born but from this approaching moment.
  • namasye — I am going to offer obeisances
    First person future middle of √nam. Praṇāma is one of the nine limbs of bhakti (vandanam). The whole chapter is a rehearsal of this verb — Akrūra mentally bows again and again before his body ever does.
  • yogi - dhyeya — meditated upon by yogīs
    Compound: yogi (yogī) + dhyeya (object of meditation). The same feet the yogīs strain to fix within the heart are what Akrūra is about to fall before with his physical body. Gauḍīyas read this contrast as the bhakti-advantage: what yoga reaches at the end, bhakti receives at the start.
  • aṅghri — the feet
    Aṅghri / pāda — Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet, the central object of Gauḍīya devotion. The whole sambandha-jñāna of the tradition is summarized in the relation of the soul to these feet: nitya-dāsa stationed there forever.
  • paṅkajam — lotuslike
    From paṅka (mud) + ja (born) — "mud-born." The feet that arose, like the lotus, from the very world that is mud — and remain unsoiled. The image is the Vaiṣṇava emblem of being-in-the-world without being of it.
Today all my sinful reactions have been eradicated and my birth has become worthwhile, since I will offer my obeisances to the Supreme Lord’s lotus feet, which mystic yogīs meditate upon.
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Today all my sinful reactions have been eradicated and my birth has become worthwhile, since I will offer my obeisances to the Supreme Lord's lotus feet, which mystic yogīs meditate upon.
Commentary

Becoming more certain, he spoke with confidence.

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

He speaks with pride (garva, another saṣcāri-bhāva) and certainty. All his obstacles will be destroyed by seeing the Lord because by the Lord’s appearing and the strength of his mercy, he will directly offer respects to the lotus feet of the Lord, though even the yogīs can just meditate on those feet without directly seeing them. And those are the feet of the Lord who reveals unlimited powers (bhagavataḥ), Kṛṣṇa.

Śrīdhara Svāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

My low status has been removed today by the Lord’s great mercy. My bad karma (amaṅgalam) has been removed today. I will offer respects to the Lord whose lotus feet are the object of meditation for persons desiring liberation. I will directly offer respects to those feet. This displays the Lord’s unlimited power. Though foot is in the singular, it implies both feet, since they are always together. Or the singular indicates his bowing down slightly. By that his whole inauspicious existence has been destroyed.

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A man kept in a sunless room for years steps out for one minute and feels his pallor lift — he hasn't earned the sun, the sun simply touches him. Akrūra's whole life-account turns auspicious in one breath because the feet at the journey's end will be touched to his head.

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