Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.47.35
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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dūra-care preṣṭhe
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when the lover is far away
Compound: dūra (distant) + care (moving) + preṣṭhe (most dear). The locative absolute: 'the dearest one being far.' Vipralambha's grammatical signature in the Bhāgavatam.
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manaḥ āviśya
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the mind becoming absorbed
Compound: manaḥ + ā + √viś (to enter). Āveśa — the mind entering the beloved. Gauḍīyas read āveśa as the operative state of mādhurya-meditation, distinct from yogic samādhi.
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akṣi-gocare
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present before the eyes
Compound: akṣi (eye) + gocare (in the range of). When the lover is in eye-range, the mind disperses. The paradox: presence weakens absorption; absence sharpens it.
According to Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī, the same holds true for men, who become more absorbed in thinking of a beloved woman when she is far away than when she is present before their eyes.
This verse considers the relative importance of feeling with the heart and seeing with the eyes. Ca indicates that this example holds good for men as well as women. The heart becomes more absorbed in the beloved when the beloved is far away, than when the loved one is present and within sight.
“Let that be. Your love is perfect. What about us?” Your love is greater than mine. With that desire he speaks this verse. Even ordinary women think of their lovers in their absence. What to speak of you gopīs. The word ca indicates not just women but everyone. You should therefore forgive my whimsy which is difficult to restrain since it arises from the desire to increase our love for each other.
He explains how this will be accomplished. Just as when even (api) a man who loves women is far away, his mind becomes absorbed in women (āviśya vartate), so the mind of women also becomes absorbed in the man.
A woman thinks more of her lover when he is far away than when he is in front of her. Kṛṣṇa explains His logic — proximity diffuses focus, distance concentrates it. Gauḍīyas note the line as one of the Bhāgavatam's clearest defenses of vipralambha as the higher rasa.
In His last twelve years at Jagannātha Purī, Mahāprabhu lived in the Gambhīrā in continuous viraha — tasting the gopīs' separation-mood from Kṛṣṇa. Caitanya-caritāmṛta describes Him weeping, dashing His face against the walls, His body lengthening and shortening — the symptoms of mahā-bhāva.
Gauḍīyas read this verse as the explicit doctrinal warrant for what Mahāprabhu performs: the lover's mind, when the beloved is far, is more absorbed than in any union.
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Source: vedabase.io