Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.65.10
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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smarati
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remembers
Third person singular of √smṛ. The same root the gopīs used of themselves in v. 7. Smaraṇa is bidirectional in Vraja — they want to know whether they remain in Bhagavān's memory.
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mātaram
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His mother
Accusative of mātṛ. Yaśodā — the vātsalya-mūrti. The gopīs' deepest worry on this verse is not about themselves but about her; Vraja-prema relocates anxiety onto the other.
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draṣṭum
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to see
Infinitive of √dṛś. The gopīs do not ask whether He will live with her again — only whether He will be seen. Darśana is the minimum unit of Vraja's relief.
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sakṛt
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once
Sa-kṛt — 'one time.' The smallness of the request reveals the size of the deprivation. Once would be enough.
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anusevām
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our steady service
Anu (continuous) + sevā (service). The technical Gauḍīya word for sustained sevā. The gopīs ask whether their continuous service is itself remembered — service that, for the Gauḍīya, is the substance of prema.
Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī comments that the gopīs would render service to Lord Kṛṣṇa by stringing flower garlands, skillfully using perfumes, and constructing fans, beds and canopies out of flower petals. By these simple acts of love, the gopīs rendered the greatest service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
"Well, maybe he does not remember us. But does he remember his friends, paternal and maternal relatives, and his mother and father, Yasoda and Nanda or not? We know that the women of the city, more expert in the pastimes of conjugal love than us, are giving him more happiness. But he must remember us for making flower garlands, smearing sandalwood on his body, making fans, beds and canopies of flowers and young leaves." With that intention they ask, "Does he sometimes remember the services we did for him? We do not know if his strong arms (mahabaho) are still spread with kumkum and unguents with the cessation of his devotion to us."
Though his happiness is our happiness, he should remember those who are dear to him. With this in mind they inquire. Does he remember his friends like Śrīdhamā? With doubt, this question indicates their lamentation. Does he remember how we constantly worshipped him? Repetition of the word vā indicates their sorrow. Sarcastically they say “that persons with strong arms.” A great person with such characteristics would definitely remember. Out of longing with intense love, they mention three types of persons of increasing excellence: cowherd friends, father and mother. Let him forget his friends. But how can he forget his father? They mention themselves last, separately, out of humility and feeling lowly.
An aging mother left in the village asks, year after year, 'will he come once more before I die?' The question is not pessimism; it is the precise grammar of one whose love measures time by visits rather than by clocks.
Devotional tradition holds that after Kṛṣṇa left Vraja, milk continued to spontaneously flow from Yaśodā's body whenever His name was uttered nearby — the body could not be told what the mind had been told. The gopīs' question 'will He come even once' is the same physiology in another register.
Gauḍīyas read such episodes as the Bhāgavatam's witness that vātsalya-rasa is not a metaphor; the body of the devotee literally responds to Bhagavān's name and absence.
My note
Source: vedabase.io