Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.47.32
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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indriya-arthān
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upon the objects of the senses
Compound: indriya (sense) + arthān (objects). The standard yogic enemy. Gauḍīyas note that bhakti does not eliminate indriya-arthas; it offers them to Kṛṣṇa (yukta-vairāgya, Rūpa Gosvāmī's term).
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svapna-vat
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like a dream
From svapna (dream) + vat (like). Sense-meditation is dreamlike — the trademark Sāṅkhya/Yoga image. Gauḍīyas accept its descriptive truth for the conditioned jīva but reject the Advaitin extension to Bhagavān's līlā.
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nirundhyāt
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one should bring under control
Optative of ni + √rudh (to restrain). The yoga-imperative. Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu accepts mind-control as a preliminary but insists that the gopīs achieve it not by suppression but by total absorption — a different mechanism.
The verb pratipad means “to be perceived or restored.” The soul that is vinidra, free from the dreamlike condition of material consciousness, is restored to its constitutional position as an eternal servitor of the Lord, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, and thus the soul is directly perceived by pure consciousness.
Jnana yoga bears fruit when the mind is restrained. This verse deals with restraining the mind. By the mind a man in waking state meditates on material objects. In dream as well, by mind he meditates on dream objects, even though they are false. Thus, mind and the senses should be restrained. The careful person (vinidrah) acting in this way, gained knowledge. Previous conduct is testified as true by this statement. For the gopis the following meaning is given. "Waking from a swooning condition, a person like you rejects the mind which dwells on objects of the senses such as seeing and touching me, tasting the nectar of my lips, and embracing me, which though real (because they come from my actual appearance in this world) appear false as in a dream state. Because of that, without sleep, you appeared with eyes and other senses devoid of anjana, sandalwood and color. I know that though I gave you all sorts of enjoyment, you, blinded by attraction, pained by separation, losing all discretion, consider all that enjoyment false. This gives me great unhappiness. I have therefore sent this message to you to say that your enjoyment with me is true."
When a person awakes by the mind he thinks of sense objects seen in his dream, though they are false and by that enjoys them with his senses. With attention one should control the mind. The second meaning is as follows. “Your sphūrti is similar to directly meeting you but it does not occur at all times. There is one method for manifesting the sphūrti during separation which appears to external vision. One must control the mind.” He then responds by teaching the actions mentioned in yoga scriptures. The third meaning is as follows. “In this prakaṭa manifestation separation takes place. It is impossible for us to give up external vision. You do not return. How will we pass our time?” As long as I do not return, control your minds. He then speaks this verse.
No one except you can see me, revealing myself everywhere as the antaryāmī, stimulating all the senses, since they are attached to material objects. All of them should restrain the mind from sense objects. By stating this he glorifies the gopīs. When a person awakes, by the mind he thinks of sense objects seen in his dream, though they are false and by that enjoys them with his senses. With attention one should control the mind. Or being without māyā (vinidraḥ), my devotee attains me (pratyapadyata) in all his senses. Past tense is used emphasize the attainment. Or to instill faith the gopīs conduct of previous births is described.
Just as a person waking continues to chew over a dream, so the mind keeps replaying its objects. Bring the mind under control, Kṛṣṇa says. He gives the gopīs yoga's basic instruction — yet they have already done what no yogī does: focused the mind on Him with no remainder. The instruction is being given to a class that has passed.
My note
Source: vedabase.io