Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.64.5
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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aravinda - akṣaḥ
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lotus-eyed
Aravinda (lotus) + akṣa (eye). The standard Bhāgavata epithet for Kṛṣṇa at moments of rescue — His glance precedes His hand. Gauḍīyas read His eye as the first instrument of deliverance; the touch comes second.
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viśva - bhāvanaḥ
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maintainer of the universe
Viśva (the all) + bhāvana (one who maintains, brings into being). Lifting a lizard out of a well, He is simultaneously the one holding all worlds in being. The asymmetry of effort and magnitude is the whole point.
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vāmena
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with the left (hand)
Instrumental of vāma (left). The same left hand that lifted Govardhana (SB 10.25). For Kṛṣṇa, deliverance is so light a matter He performs it with the secondary hand — the poet's signal that this is līlā, not exertion.
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līlayā
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easily, playfully
Instrumental of līlā. The technical Gauḍīya term: Kṛṣṇa's every act is play, including rescue. Effortlessness is not indifference — it is the precise mode of His sovereignty.
Kṛṣṇa’s eyes opened wide with astonishment, like a blossoming lotus (aravindākṣaḥ). He came there and saw the lizard. With his left hand, very easily he lifted it out, in a manner which attracted all (uj--jahāra), since he was the protector of all beings (viśva-bhāvanaḥ) and he was all powerful (bhagavān).
Kṛṣṇa easily lifted the lizard since he by his will he creates the universe, since he manifests unlimited qualities like compassion (bhagavān). His eyes were like lotuses, opening wide and glancing with mercy. Or just by his glance he gave relief from all suffering. He used his left hand directly or grasped a rope with his left hand.
The same hand that holds the Sudarśana, that lifted Govardhana for seven days, that pulled the calves out of Aghāsura's belly — now lifts a lizard with the left hand, easily, as if it were nothing. For Bhagavān every uddhāra is līlā; for the rescued, every uddhāra is the whole world.
Gajendra, the elephant-king, was caught in the jaws of a crocodile and could not free himself with all his strength. At the last breath he cried out a single śloka of surrender; Viṣṇu descended on Garuḍa and lifted him out with one stroke of the cakra (SB 8.2–3).
Nṛga's well is Gajendra's lake in a different key — a fallen king, trapped in a body not his own, lifted by the same hand. The Bhāgavatam keeps repeating this gesture: Kṛṣṇa's līlā-haste is the only rope that finally works.
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Source: vedabase.io