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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.61.21

అనాగతమతీతం చ వర్తమానమతీన్ద్రియమ్ । విప్రకృష్టం వ్యవహితం సమ్యక్ పశ్యన్తి యోగిన: ॥ ౨౧ ॥
anāgatam atītaṁ ca
[anaagatam ateetam cha]
vartamānam atīndriyam
[vartamaanam ateendriyam]
viprakṛṣṭaṁ vyavahitaṁ
[viprakrishtam vyavahitam]
samyak paśyanti yoginaḥ
[samyak pashyanti yoginah]
anāgatam — not yet happened atītam — past ca — also vartamānam — present atīndriyam — beyond the purview of the senses viprakṛṣṭam — distant vyavahitam — blocked by obstacles samyak — perfectly paśyanti — see yoginaḥ — mystic yogīs. .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
anāgatam atītaṁ ca
anāgatam
not yet happened
atītam
past
ca
also
vartamānam atīndriyam
vartamānam
present
atīndriyam
beyond the purview of the senses
viprakṛṣṭaṁ vyavahitaṁ
viprakṛṣṭam
distant
vyavahitam
blocked by obstacles
samyak paśyanti yoginaḥ
samyak
perfectly
paśyanti
see
yoginaḥ
mystic yogīs. .
  • anāgatam — not yet happened
    an + āgata, 'not-come.' Bhāgavata's standard term for the future. The verse asserts the yogī's vision covers what has not yet 'arrived' — a faculty Śuka demonstrates merely by narrating this chapter.
  • atīndriyam — beyond the senses
    ati + indriya, 'beyond the sense-organs.' Names the proper domain of yogic darśana — what cannot be touched by ear or eye. For Gauḍīyas, hearing Bhāgavata from a guru is itself an atīndriya-darśana, the ear becoming a yogic faculty.
  • yoginaḥ — mystic yogīs
    Plural of yogin. The Bhāgavata's preferred yogī is the bhakti-yogī — Śuka himself. The verse implicitly grounds Śuka's narrative authority: he sees because he is a yogī, and his yoga is hearing-and-narrating Kṛṣṇa-kathā.
  • paśyanti — they see
    From √paś, 'to see.' Sanskrit darśana-vocabulary's root verb. The verse claims literal sight, not inference — yogic vision is direct, not deductive.
Mystic yogīs can perfectly see that which has not yet happened, as well as things in the past or present, beyond the senses, remote or blocked by physical obstacles.

Here King Parīkṣit encourages Śukadeva Gosvāmī to explain why Rukmī gave his daughter to Lord Kṛṣṇa’s son Pradyumna. The King stresses that since great yogīs like Śukadeva Gosvāmī know everything, the sage must also know this and should explain it to the anxious King.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Mystic yogīs can perfectly see that which has not yet happened, as well as things in the past or present, beyond the senses, remote or blocked by physical obstacles.
Commentary

In this verse Pariksit expresses to Sukadeva, "You cannot say that you do not know."

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

“In general it is understood that the Lord can do what seems impossible by his will or by his līlā-śakti. But it is impossible to understand his particular plan.” Yogīs can know the future. You, his greatest devotee, know the particulars concerning the Lord because of your great bhakti.

Śrīdhara Svāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

An explanation is given. Yogīs can see the future and past and even the present, beyond normal perception—at a great distance or with intervening obstacles. Since yogīs can see in this way, what to speak of you, the best of devotees? Or they can see Brahman (atīndram), which is obstructed by māyā (vyavahitam). They see he who is most excellent (viprakṛṣtam), Kṛṣṇa, greater than Nārāyaṇa because they practice bhakti-yoga. So Rukmī can definitely be seen.

Related values
Anahankarah (Freedom from False Ego)Kshama (Forgiveness / Patience)Udyama (Industriousness / Effort)
Related verses

Like a lamp held in a window from which one can see the road behind, the road ahead, and the courtyard hidden by the wall, the yogī's vision is a single lamp lit by Kṛṣṇa that lights the three times at once — and Śuka claims this lamp now as licence to know how Rukmī was won over.

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