Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.41.11
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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bhakta-vatsala
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O You who have parental affection for Your devotees
Compound vocative: bhakta + vatsala (calf-loving, hence parentally affectionate). One of Kṛṣṇa's most-invoked names. Vatsala is the cow's love for the calf — Gauḍīyas read this as Bhagavān reversing the directionality of love: not just the devotee yearning for Him, but Him yearning for the devotee.
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rahitaḥ
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deprived
Past participle of √rah — to abandon, leave behind. Akrūra cannot bear the verb being applied to himself. The dāsya-devotee's primary terror is separation, not death.
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tyaktum
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to abandon
Infinitive of √tyaj. Akrūra inverts the verse's bhakta-vatsala: 'You who love Your devotee — You cannot now abandon him.' The grammar holds Bhagavān to His own name.
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nātha
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O Lord
Vocative of nātha — master, protector, one to whom one belongs. Pairs with bhakta: nātha-bhakta is the standard relational frame of dāsya-rasa. Akrūra speaks as one who has already given Kṛṣṇa the title.
Because of great pain, he calls out to Kṛṣṇa many times with “O Lord! O giver! O Kṛṣṇa, affection to your devotees!” I cannot enter the city without you because you give shelter to all beings, since you are most powerful (prabho)! “Enter with my permission.” I cannot leave you, since you give a person whatever he desires (nātha). “But detached, neutral persons can be given up.” I am your devotee (te bhaktam), surrendered completely to you. “I cannot give you up, but for a short time you should go to your house from relaxing in the city.” It is not proper for you to give up your devotee for even a moment, since you are most affection to them (bhakti-vatsala).
A bee, having found the lotus, will not enter a stone city without it. Akrūra clings to Kṛṣṇa's companionship — refusing the journey's reward if its center is missing.
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