Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.67.1
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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rāmasya
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of Lord Balarāma
Genitive of Rāma — here Bala-Rāma, Kṛṣṇa's elder brother, ādi-guru and the source of all sandhinī-śakti. Gauḍīyas worship Him as the first expansion of Bhagavān, the servitor-feature of God serving God.
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adbhuta
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amazing, wonderful
Adbhuta-rasa — the rasa of astonishment — is one of the seven secondary rasas in Rūpa Gosvāmī's Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu. Balarāma's līlās evoke it especially; even devotees long-familiar with Bhagavān are repeatedly startled fresh.
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anantasya
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of the unlimited one
From an- (not) + anta (end). Ananta is also Balarāma's own name as Śeṣa, the unlimited serpent-bed of Viṣṇu. The epithet doubles as title: His deeds are unlimited because He is.
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aprameyasya
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of the immeasurable one
From a- + pra-√mā (to measure). No yardstick of buddhi can take His measure; only śravaṇa from a realized speaker (Śuka) opens Him to the hearer. The verse is itself a model of that opening.
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śrotum-icchāmi
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I wish to hear
Śravaṇa-icchā — the desire to hear — is the first limb of bhakti (SB 7.5.23). Parīkṣit names that desire openly; in Gauḍīya practice, owning the wish is already the beginning of its fulfillment.
In this chapter, Baladeva enjoys with the gopis on Raivataka mountain. When Dravida disturbs this, Baladeva kills him. Being absorbed in Krsna lila, Sukadeva had missed some incidents, and therefore Pariksit asked him this question, hinting that he not proceed so fast. Balarama’s astonishing activities (adbhutakarmani) were such incidents as pulling the Yamuna river in order to take bath. Who else could do that? And because he is infinite, even Sukadeva cannot know his activities completely. He is called immeasureable (aprameyasya), because Pariksit cannot measure him with his little intelligence.
Previously Parīkṣit had heard about Balarāma pulling the Yamunā with his plough. In the midst of discussing Balarāma’s pastimes the killing of Pauṇḍraka was related, since this happened when Balarāma was in Vraja. Fearing interruption, Parīkṣit praises Balarāma and inquires from Śukadeva who was present. Tell me Balarāma’s other activities since he is full of all powers (vibhuḥ or prabhuḥ).
Tell me Balarāma’s other activities since he is full of all powers (vibhuḥ or prabhuḥ). I desire to hear other activities of Balarāma, who gave enjoyment to the people of Vraja, after pulling Kālindī. His activities such as pulling the Yamunā are astonishing.
A child returning to a storyteller's lap will say, "and what else? what else did He do?" — Parīkṣit, days from death, sits exactly there. Balarāma's deeds are inexhaustible; the soul drawn to Bhagavān always asks for one more līlā, never for one less.
Cursed to die in seven days by a brāhmaṇa boy's word, Parīkṣit refused food, water, and political distraction, and sat at Śukadeva's feet on the bank of the Gaṅgā (SB 1.19). Every question he asks across the Bhāgavatam is asked from inside that countdown.
Gauḍīyas read this question — "What else did Balarāma do?" — as the model śravaṇa-mood: a dying man hungry not for solace but for more līlā. The hearer's appetite is itself bhakti.
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Source: vedabase.io