• svapna-māyā-manaḥ-ratham — as a dream, a magic trick, or a fantasy in the mind
  Triple compound: svapna (dream) + māyā (illusion) + manas-ratha (mental chariot/daydream). The three classical Vaiṣṇava analogies for the apparent reality of saṁsāra, stacked. Gauḍīyas distinguish this from Advaitin niḥsvabhāva: the world is real but its possessability is illusory.
• āyamya ātmanā ātmānam — restraining the mind by intelligence
  Echoes Gītā 6.5–6 (uddhared ātmanātmānam) almost verbatim. Akrūra is quoting the Gītā's self-restraint formula into the political moment — the king's first conquest must be his own mind.
• samaḥ — equal
  Returns to the keynote of the counsel. Verses 18–25 are a teaching ring whose entrance and exit are both sama.
• śāntaḥ — peaceful
  From √śam (to cease, to be quieted). Śānta-rasa in Gauḍīya bhakti is the foundation rasa — the basic stilling without which the higher rasas cannot take root. Akrūra prescribes the floor on which Dhṛtarāṣṭra still has time to stand.

• Padaseva Pr SB 10-49-25 Oriya
  His Grace Padaseva Prabhu· Oriya
• SKP SB 10-49-25-26 - 2023-12-20 ISKCON Vrindavan
  His Grace Srutakirti Prabhu· 2023-12-20· English

See this whole court — sons, throne, intrigues — as a dream that will burst at dawn, a magician's illusion that will vanish when the hand is lowered, a daydream that will end when attention turns. Akrūra puts three different vanishings beside each other so Dhṛtarāṣṭra cannot escape the diagnosis.