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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.42.6

ప్రసన్నో భగవాన్కుబ్జాం త్రివక్రాం రుచిరాననామ్ । ఋజ్వీం కర్తుం మనశ్చక్రే దర్శయన్ దర్శనే ఫలమ్ ॥ ౬ ॥
prasanno bhagavān kubjāṁ
[prasanno bhagavaan kubjaam]
trivakrāṁ rucirānanām
[trivakraam ruchiraananaam]
ṛjvīṁ kartuṁ manaś cakre
[rijveem kartum manash chakre]
darśayan darśane phalam
[darshayan darshane phalam]
prasannaḥ — satisfied bhagavān — the Supreme Lord kubjām — the hunchback trivakrā — Trivakrā rucira — attractive ānanām — whose face ṛjvīm — straight kartum — to make manaḥ cakre — He decided darśayan — showing darśane — of seeing Him phalam — the result .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
prasanno bhagavān kubjāṁ
prasannaḥ
satisfied
bhagavān
the Supreme Lord
kubjām
the hunchback
trivakrāṁ rucirānanām
trivakrā
Trivakrā
rucira
attractive
ānanām
whose face
ṛjvīṁ kartuṁ manaś cakre
ṛjvīm
straight
kartum
to make
manaḥ cakre
He decided
darśayan darśane phalam
darśayan
showing
darśane
of seeing Him
phalam
the result .
  • prasannaḥ — satisfied, gracious
    From pra + √sad. Prasāda flows from prasannatā. Gauḍīya note: He is not bargaining — He is already pleased; the straightening is the natural overflow of His already-given grace.
  • bhagavān — the Supreme Lord
    The six-fold opulence one: aiśvarya, vīrya, yaśas, śrī, jñāna, vairāgya (Viṣṇu Purāṇa 6.5.47). Used here precisely because what He does next is an aiśvarya display compressed into a tender act.
  • darśane — of seeing Him
    Locative of darśana. Gauḍīya doctrine: darśana is not passive viewing — it is reciprocal exchange. The verse calls Kubjā's transformation the phala (fruit) of one such darśana.
  • phalam — the result, fruit
    From √phal. Every contact with the Lord bears phala — the verse here makes Kubjā the demonstration-case, the public proof that even an unintended darśana ripens.
  • rucira — attractive
    From √ruc, to shine, to please. Even in her crooked state her face was rucira — Gauḍīya commentators note that Kṛṣṇa's mercy descends through the latent goodness already there; nothing is wasted.
Lord Kṛṣṇa was pleased with Trivakrā, so He decided to straighten that hunchbacked girl with the lovely face just to demonstrate the result of seeing Him.
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Lord Kṛṣṇa was pleased with Trivakrā, so He decided to straighten that hunchbacked girl with the lovely face just to demonstrate the result of seeing Him.
Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

Kṛṣṇa, pleased with her, decided to make Kubjā, or Trivakrā, straight. Another reason for making her straight was that she had a lovely face. He showed the immediate result of seeing him.

Related values
Anahankarah (Freedom from False Ego)Kshama (Forgiveness / Patience)Atma Nigraha (Self-control)Karuna (Kindness / Compassion)Tyaga (Renunciation / Letting Go)Bhakti (Devotion)Vinaya (Humility / Modesty)Prema (Divine Love)Samata (Equanimity / Even-mindedness)
Related verses

A sculptor seeing a piece of warped wood does not throw it out; He turns it on His knee until it remembers its straight form. Kṛṣṇa straightens Kubjā not because she earned it but to show the world what one darśana of Him does to a soul.

Ajāmila straightened by one name

In SB 6.1–3, the fallen brāhmaṇa Ajāmila, dying, calls his son Nārāyaṇa — and the inadvertent utterance of the holy name straightens his entire course. Yamadūtas retreat, Viṣṇudūtas arrive.

Kubjā's bodily straightening is the outer parallel of Ajāmila's inner one. Gauḍīya principle: a single contact with Kṛṣṇa — name, form, glance, or touch — reorients the jīva irreversibly.

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