Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.63.28
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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śānta-ugreṇa
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cold yet burning
Compound: śānta (cool, peaceful) + ugra (fierce, hot). The phenomenology of a real fever — and a precise image of saṁsāra: peaceful-seeming and terrible at once. Gauḍīyas read this dvandva-compound as the fingerprint of māyā's double-action.
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duḥsahena
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unbearable
Compound: duḥ (difficult) + saha (bearable). The Vaiṣṇava-jvara is unbearable not because Bhagavān is cruel but because His śakti, applied directly, is incompatible with material āśā. The same śakti, accepted, becomes prema.
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aṅghri-mūlam
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the soles of Your feet
Compound: aṅghri (foot) + mūla (root, base). The Gauḍīya devotional anchor — the soles of Bhagavān's feet are the iṣṭa-sthāna of the bhakta, the place where śaraṇa is taken. Cf. Rūpa Gosvāmī's caraṇa-meditation throughout Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu.
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āśā-anubaddhāḥ
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bound by hope (for material things)
Compound: āśā (desire, hope) + anubaddha (bound after, tied to). The fever names the cause of suffering precisely: not the body itself but the binding-to-material-desire. Gauḍīyas distinguish āśā from spṛhā (longing for Kṛṣṇa) — āśā binds, spṛhā liberates.
In the previous verse, the Śiva-jvara stated that those who live by violence will suffer similar violence at the hands of the Lord. But here he further states that those who do not surrender to the Supreme Lord are especially liable to punishment. Although the Śiva-jvara himself had acted violently up till now, since he has surrendered to the Lord and rectified himself, he hopes to receive the Lord’s mercy. In other words, he has now become the Lord’s devotee.
I cannot praise you any longer because of the weapon sent by you is both cold and burning. Someone may say, "It is fitting that you suffer since you cause suffering to others." He answers, "Those who do not surrender to your feet deserve to suffer. But I have become your devotee."
Having surrendering he states his purpose. I am suffering because of your intolerable power in the form of the jvara. It is cool for the devotees, just as the woman saw you as Cupid, but burning fiercely for me, just as the wrestlers saw you as a thunderbolt. That weapon is extreme (ulbanena). All suffering, what to speak of only the suffering from the jvara, will continue as long as people do not surrender to your feet. They do not surrender because they are completely bound by aspirations for sons, wealth and other persons. Or, those bound by thirst for your mercy serve you.
First protect me from the heat. “But you are the great Lord? Why would you suffer?” It is your heat, most intolerable because the heat is ferocious, being both cold and cruel, more than mental pain or the pain of saṁsāra. Those who identify with bodies or act according to the body’s nature are qualified for suffering as long as they do not somehow even a little serve a portion of your foot. Such persons are bound (baddhāḥ) slightly (anu) by desire for service which takes away the pain, or even just begin to serve. Now, by surrendering to you, I do not deserve any pain, what to speak of the pain created by the jvāra.
A fever can be cold and burning at once — the body shakes under blankets while the forehead glows. The Vaiṣṇava-jvara's torture of the Śiva-jvara is the perfect emblem of bound-state suffering: cold and ugra, pleasant-seeming and terrible together, ending only when the soul drops material āśā for service to Bhagavān's feet.
My note
Source: vedabase.io