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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.51.32

చిరప్రజాగరశ్రాన్తో నిద్రయాపహతేన్ద్రియ: । శయేఽస్మిన్ విజనే కామం కేనాప్యుత్థాపితోఽధునా ॥ ౩౨ ॥
cira-prajāgara-śrānto
[chira-prajaagara-shraanto]
nidrayāpahatendriyaḥ
[nidrayaapahatendriyah]
śaye ’smin vijane kāmaṁ
[shaye ’smin vijane kaamam]
kenāpy utthāpito ’dhunā
[kenaapy utthaapito ’dhunaa]
Word-for-word
cira — for a long time prajāgara — because of remaining awake śrāntaḥ — fatigued nidrayā — by sleep apahata — covered over indriyaḥ — my senses śaye — I have been lying asmin — in this vijane — solitary place kāmam — as pleases me kena api — by someone utthāpitaḥ — awakened adhunā — now .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
cira-prajāgara-śrānto
cira
for a long time
prajāgara
because of remaining awake
śrāntaḥ
fatigued
nidrayāpahatendriyaḥ
nidrayā
by sleep
apahata
covered over
śaye ’smin vijane kāmaṁ
indriyaḥ
my senses
śaye
I have been lying
asmin
in this
vijane
solitary place
kāmam
as pleases me
kenāpy utthāpito ’dhunā
kena api
by someone
utthāpitaḥ
awakened
adhunā
now .
Important Words
  • cira-prajāgara — long staying awake
    Compound: cira (long) + prajāgara (staying awake). The yugas of demigod-service. Mucukunda explains his sleep not as laziness but as a body's response to extended dharma-duty. Even his sleep was sevā's consequence.
  • nidrayā — by sleep
    Same word, third occurrence in the chapter (verses 21, 32). The Bhāgavata weights nidrā as the demigod-boon that prepared him for darśana. Gauḍīyas read it as kṛṣṇa-prasāda mediated through devas.
  • vijane — in a solitary place
    Locative — alone, secluded. The Vaiṣṇava ideal of viviktasvāna (Gītā 13.10) is anticipated. But Mucukunda's solitude was preparation; Bhagavān has now joined him, and the verse 61 'wander at will' will replace it.
  • apahata-indriyaḥ — with senses overwhelmed
    Compound: apahata (struck down) + indriyaḥ (senses). His senses were 'struck down' by sleep — the same vocabulary the chapter will use, inverted, for the six enemies (ari-ṣaṭ) in verse 57. The senses sleep here; there they will be put to rest by Bhagavān.
  • utthāpitaḥ — awakened
    Past participle of ut-√sthā, causative. Someone caused him to rise. Mucukunda has not yet realized that the deeper waking — into bhakti — is the one Kṛṣṇa is now causing.
I was fatigued after remaining awake for a long time, and my senses were overwhelmed by sleep. Thus I slept comfortably here in this solitary place until, just now, someone woke me.
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
I was fatigued after remaining awake for a long time, and my senses were overwhelmed by sleep. Thus I slept comfortably here in this solitary place until, just now, someone woke me.
Śrīdhara Svāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

Having told his name and birth, he hides his inner feelings and tells of the external cause of his sleep and his actions. He does not mention the cause of his staying awake for so long out of humility. My senses were oppressed by sleep. I slept nicely (kāmam), not for personal enjoyment. Until now, there was no disturbance to my sleep.

Related values & verses
Related values
Anahankarah (Freedom from False Ego)Kshama (Forgiveness / Patience)Karuna (Kindness / Compassion)Tyaga (Renunciation / Letting Go)Bhakti (Devotion)Abhaya (Fearlessness)Vinaya (Humility / Modesty)Prema (Divine Love)
Related verses
BG 2.62 BG 3.11 BG 12.3 BG 7.8 BG 13.1 BG 5.18 BG 6.1 BG 16.4 BG 15.1 BG 16.3
Related lectures
Personal Guidance
Analogy

A traveler explaining how he came to be in this corner of the forest — 'I was tired, I slept; somebody woke me.' The asura's last act, in retrospect, becomes the door through which Kṛṣṇa entered Mucukunda's life.

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