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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.41.4

శ్రీఅక్రూర ఉవాచ అద్భ‍ుతానీహ యావన్తి భూమౌ వియతి వా జలే । త్వయి విశ్వాత్మకే తాని కిం మేఽద‍ృష్టం విపశ్యత: ॥ ౪ ॥
śrī-akrūra uvāca
[shree-akroora uvaacha]
adbhutānīha yāvanti
[adbhutaaneeha yaavanti]
bhūmau viyati vā jale
[bhoomau viyati vaa jale]
tvayi viśvātmake tāni
[tvayi vishvaatmake taani]
kiṁ me ’dṛṣṭaṁ vipaśyataḥ
[kim me ’drishtam vipashyatah]
śrī - akrūraḥ uvāca — Śrī Akrūra said adbhutāni — wonderful things iha — in this world yāvanti — whatever bhūmau — on the earth viyati — in the sky vā — or jale — in the water tvayi — in You viśva - ātmake — who comprise everything tāni — they kim — what me — by me adṛṣṭam — not seen vipaśyataḥ — seeing (You) .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
śrī-akrūra uvāca
śrī - akrūraḥ uvāca
Śrī Akrūra said
adbhutānīha yāvanti
adbhutāni
wonderful things
iha
in this world
yāvanti
whatever
bhūmau viyati vā jale
bhūmau
on the earth
viyati
in the sky
vā
or
jale
in the water
tvayi viśvātmake tāni
tvayi
in You
viśva - ātmake
who comprise everything
tāni
they
kiṁ me ’dṛṣṭaṁ vipaśyataḥ
kim
what
me
by me
adṛṣṭam
not seen
vipaśyataḥ
seeing (You) .
  • viśva-ātmake — who comprise everything
    Locative of viśva-ātmaka — having the universe as one's body. Gauḍīya frame: this is not Advaitin merging but acintya-bhedābheda — the cosmos is Kṛṣṇa's śakti, simultaneously one with and different from Him.
  • adbhutāni — wonderful things
    Neuter plural. Akrūra answers Kṛṣṇa's question by relocating the locus of wonder — not 'out there' but 'in You.' The verse-grammar enacts the very dāsya it confesses.
  • adṛṣṭam — not seen
    Past participle of √dṛś with privative a-. The rhetorical climax: 'what have I not seen?' For a devotee who has seen Bhagavān, no other vision is news. Echoes Kunti's tvāṁ sākṣāt draṣṭum īśate (SB 1.8.20).
  • vipaśyataḥ — while seeing You
    Present participle, genitive (of one who is seeing). vi + √paś — to see thoroughly. Darśana here is sustained, not a flash. Gauḍīyas read this as nirantara-smaraṇa, the unbroken interior vision of the devotee.
Śrī Akrūra said: Whatever wonderful things the earth, sky or water contain, all exist in You. Since You encompass everything, when I am seeing You, what have I not seen?
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Śrī Akrūra said: Whatever wonderful things the earth, sky or water contain, all exist in You. Since You encompass everything, when I am seeing You, what have I not seen?
Commentary

"Krsna has shown me his own opulences (as described in the previous chapter verses 44-55)." Akrura came to this conclusion, when Krsna asked his question. With great joy he then spoke the truth. "Whatever remarkable things are on the earth, in the sky or water, they are all within your form as the universe. Seeing you before me, what more remarkable sight remains? Everything is seen by seeing you."

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

Having understood that Kṛṣṇa was non-different from that form, now he considered that all this to be Kṛṣṇa’s power after Kṛṣṇa mercifully asked him a question and he gained further realization. Whatever remarkable things exist on earth, in the sky and in the water exist within you alone. They do not exist separately in water, on earth or in the sky since you are the root cause of the universe (viśvātmake), giving shelter to it. The middle term of the compound is omitted. Yasmin vijṣāte sarvaṁ vijṣātaṁ bhavati: knowing him, everything is known. (Śāndilya Upaniṣad) What can I see that is astonishing on earth, in the water or in the air? Nothing. What I have seen, I have seen within you. In seeing you, I have seen everything.

Śrīdhara Svāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

Iha means “in the world.” The cause of astonishing things is you, the form of the universe (viśvātmake). As I directly saw (vipaśyataḥ) you, what have I not seen?

Related values
Anahankarah (Freedom from False Ego)Apaishunam (Non-slander)Kshama (Forgiveness / Patience)Asteya (Non-stealing / Honesty)Aparigraha (Non-possessiveness)
Related verses

A child who has seen the ocean cannot be surprised by any river. Akrūra, having seen Kṛṣṇa, the viśvātmā, can no longer encounter anything that is not already inside Him.

Yaśodā seeing the universe in Kṛṣṇa's mouth

In SB 10.8, when mother Yaśodā asked baby Kṛṣṇa to open His mouth to check for clay, she saw inside it all the worlds — the directions, the stars, the wind, the fire, the moon, even herself holding Him. She nearly fainted.

Akrūra's confession here echoes that moment in the dāsya key: whatever is wonderful in earth, sky or water — all of it lives inside the Person whose hand he is presently driving toward Mathurā. Viśva is not somewhere else; viśva is in Him.

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