Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.46.42
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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yuvayoḥ-eva-na
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not of you two alone
Genitive dual + eva (alone) + na (not). The crucial 'alone' is being negated, not the relation. Gauḍīya commentaries linger: Uddhava is not saying He is not your son — He is saying He is not only your son. The verse expands without subtracting.
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ātma - jaḥ
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the son
Compound: ātma (self) + ja (born of). Literally 'self-born one' — the standard Sanskrit word for son. The compound itself does the doctrinal work: every being's ātma-ja is Bhagavān, because every ātma is Bhagavān.
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ātmā
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the very self
Repeated from verse 4 and verse 41 — the chapter's persistent term. He is the ātmā of all. Gauḍīya: this is not Advaitin identity but acintya-bhedābheda — He is the inner self of all without being identical to any.
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pitā-mātā
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father, mother
Nominatives of pitṛ and mātṛ. The verse inverts the family-vocabulary of verse 38: there, He has no mother or father; here, He is mother and father of all. Two halves of one tattva.
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īśvaraḥ
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the controlling Lord
Nominative of īśvara — the supreme controller. The verse closes with the title. Gauḍīya: īśvara is what makes the relational claims (son-self-father-mother) possible without paradox — He can be all of these because He is īśvara.
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sarveṣām
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of all
Genitive plural of sarva. The scope-marker: all beings. Uddhava broadens the vātsalya-claim cosmically. Gauḍīya tradition reads this verse as Uddhava's failed attempt at consolation — when Yaśodā hears it later, she will not be soothed; cosmic vātsalya does not satisfy a mother's particular ache.
"You should not think of the creator of the whole universe as your son, or the source of your happiness and suffering. And though he is the supreme lord, if you think of him as your son, then listen as I speak the truth." Then Uddhava speaks this verse. "He is not just your son. Whoever cultivates a sentiment of him as their son, he is their son. Anyone who cultivates him as the dear most, like the soul he becomes the dearmost. For those who think of him as father, he is father. Because he is the Lord, this is not unsuitable for him."
Controlled by your intense prema, Kṛṣṇa is your son. Though he has gone elsewhere, he will come here. Though you think of him as your son with the mentality of a relationship of a son and father, he is not only your son but everyone’s son, since he is all ātmās. Not only is he a son but he is a father and mother as well. Because there is no prema in these relationships whoever, he does not fall under their control. This is explained in two verses. He is the Lord full of all powers (bhagavān) to people like us. He is the destroyer of all suffering (hariḥ). Or because of your prema which causes him to be your son, he is your son and not the son of everyone else, since he is Paramātmā (sarveṣām ātmā), the cause (pitā), the maintainer (mātā) and the giver of all results of action (īśvaraḥ).
Though Uddhava explained everything, he saw that Nanda was not believing because of his strong prema. He again speaks the same meaning. This person, the Lord (ayam īśvaraḥ), endowed with all powers (bhagavān), all attractive (hariḥ), is your son. He concludes this by seeing Nanda’s behavior as a father. He is not the son of Rohiṇi, Devakī or Vasudeva in that manner. Moreover, he is not just your son: he is dearest (ātmā), your protector (pītā) and most affectionate, like a mother. Or since he knows the essence of prema, he is not your son in the same way that he relates to all others. Do not lose faith in his coming.
Hari is not your son alone — He is everyone's son, everyone's father, everyone's mother, everyone's self. Uddhava enlarges the relation without removing it. The 'alone' is what falls away; the 'son' remains, multiplied. Gauḍīya: vātsalya does not lose its specificity by being universalized; it gains the entire universe as fellow-lover.
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