Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.63.42
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
-
viṣam
—
poison
The verse's signature image: viṣa chosen over amṛta. Gauḍīyas read this inversion as bhakti's diagnostic target — Caitanya's harināma is the amṛta-anubhava-rasa (CC Adi 1.4), and conditioned tongues prefer the viṣa of viṣaya.
-
ātmānam priyam īśvaram
—
Self, dearmost, Lord
Three appositions for Bhagavān: ātman (the soul's own true Self), priya (the dearmost), īśvara (Lord). Gauḍīyas note: the soul rejects all three at once when rejecting Kṛṣṇa — sambandha-jñāna fails on every axis simultaneously.
-
viparyaya-indriya-artha
—
sense objects of opposite nature
Compound: viparyaya (opposite, inverted) + indriya-artha (sense object). The sense objects are by nature viparyaya — opposite to the soul's interest. Gauḍīyas read viparyaya as māyā's signature: she presents the inverted as the desirable.
-
martyaḥ
—
mortal
From √mṛ (to die). The verse uses martyaḥ (the dying one) for the person who rejects Bhagavān — definitional irony: he is named by his mortality even as he runs from the only Source that could spare him from it.
The person described above is pitiable because he rejects that which is actually dear, the Lord, and accepts that which is not dear and is ungodly: temporary sense gratification, which leads to suffering and bewilderment.
He who rejects you for the opposite--for what is not soul, not dear and not the lord--- drinks poison in the form of sense objects such as sons etc.
Though I have taught him as guru, even now he rejects you. He is most lamentable. He is subject to death, and should thus not reject the nectar. He is also punished by you for not worshipping you, since you are the Lord. You are the self, are dear and are the Lord (īśvaram). Stronger and stronger reasons are given for worshipping him. But he rejects you. He does not worship you. He takes poison, rejecting nectar. This shows his lack of discrimination. Instead of tyajan sometimes tyajet is seen.
This is further explained. The person who is not qualified to give up death (martyaḥ) rejects you, the greatest benefactor, situated as antaryāmī (ātmanam), the object of prema for the jīva since you are the supreme ātmā, and should not be given up, being the necessary object of worship, who punishes a person for not worshipping (īśvaram). The list of descriptive terms is in order of increasing excellence as reasons for worshipping the Lord. This person is without intelligence, drinking poison and rejecting nectar. Those who enjoy material objects always suffering and are never happy.
A starving man set before a banquet of amṛta who pushes it aside to drink poison from a roadside ditch — that is the soul who rejects Kṛṣṇa for indriya-artha. Bhagavān is sweeter than amṛta; viṣaya tastes like its opposite. The grammar of preference inverts itself in māyā.
My note
Source: vedabase.io