Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.58.9
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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kuśalam
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well-being
Auspiciousness, welfare. Kuntī insists welfare is not measured by external circumstance — at her saying, she is still recently exiled — but by Kṛṣṇa's remembrance. Gauḍīya doctrine: kuśala-lakṣaṇa is kṛṣṇa-smaraṇa.
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smaratā
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by remembering
Present participle of √smṛ. The instrumental case — by Your act of remembering — locates causation in His mind, not their merit. Gauḍīya reading: the bhakta is held by the Lord's smaraṇa, not the Lord by the bhakta's.
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jñātīn
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relatives
Plural — those connected by birth. Kṛṣṇa's family includes the Pāṇḍavas; bhakti is woven into kinship here. Gauḍīyas note this as one of the few moments the Bhāgavata calls Bhagavān a relative in the affirmative.
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preṣitaḥ
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sent
Past participle of pra + √iṣ — dispatched. Kṛṣṇa is the sender; Vidura the sent. Kuntī's theology: every help that arrives in this life is a kṛṣṇa-preṣita help. Trace the visible aid back, you will find Him at the source.
Brother here refers to Akrura.
You created our auspiciousness even in the past. He who is most affectionate, acting like my brother (Akrūra), was sent by you since you remembered us, your relatives who should be protected. You thought of us as Yādavas. That was befitting since you are Kṛṣṇa, famous for always revealing unlimited qualities like having affection for your devotees.
These sufferings were overcome by your mercy. We were protected by you who remembers us relatives, though we are not qualified to be relatives (jṣātīn naḥ). You sent the most affectionate person, who acted as my brother (Akrūra). That was suitable to you since you manifest unlimited qualities like affection for your devotees (kṛṣṇa).
A child stranded in a strange town does not know she is found until the parent's letter arrives — and yet, in retrospect, the moment of being found is the moment the parent first thought of her. Kuntī marks her welfare from the instant Kṛṣṇa remembered.
Mahābhārata records (Vana-parva) that Vidura, Kuntī's brother (more precisely her half-brother), made visits to console the exiled Pāṇḍavas — at times openly defying Dhṛtarāṣṭra to do so. Kṛṣṇa moved through Vidura's footsteps.
Gauḍīyas read this verse as crediting Kṛṣṇa for the visible help: when a saint arrives uninvited, it is because the Lord remembered first. The bhakta receives the brother; the bhakta knows the sender.
My note
Source: vedabase.io