Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.7.34
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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sva-aṅkam
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on her own lap
Sva (own) + aṅka (lap). Yaśodā's lap is Kṛṣṇa's most intimate seat in this chapter. The Gauḍīya commentary on the Bhāgavatam treats the mother's aṅka as the throne of vātsalya-rasa — Kṛṣṇa is enthroned not in Vaikuṇṭha here but in Yaśodā's lap, and chooses the lap over the throne.
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prasnutam
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milk oozing out
Pra-snuta — flowing forth. Same root as snāna (bathing) and the various forms of pure-flow imagery. Yaśodā's milk does not need to be drawn — it flows of itself, because vātsalya at this intensity literally moves the body. Rūpa Gosvāmī treats prasnuta as a sāttvika-bhāva of vātsalya: an involuntary bodily sign of bhāva.
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pāyayām āsa
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fed the child (made Him drink)
Causative of pā — to drink. Yaśodā makes Kṛṣṇa drink; the Lord who feeds all is, here, made to drink. The reversal — Bhagavān as receiver of the devotee's offering — is the heart of bhakti's logic. The Lord eats what we feed Him only because He has allowed Himself to be hungry on our behalf.
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sneha-pariplutā
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with great affection and love, drenched in sneha
Sneha (affectionate love) + paripluta (completely drenched). Sneha is one of the technical terms of rasa-śāstra — Rūpa Gosvāmī (Ujjvala-nīlamaṇi) classifies it as a stage of intensifying prema. Yaśodā is paripluta — drenched, soaked — in sneha. The bhāva has flooded her body; the milk is its overflow.
The killer of Tṛṇāvarta, Kṛṣṇa, thought, “Having killed this demon covered by passion and ignorance, who thought he was important and took me away, I shall now bewilder my own people.” The līlā-śakti shows the powers within Kṛṣṇa in order to pacify Yaśodā who had become dried up by the previous fears and worry about future disturbances. She took him from the bed, or since he was on the ground playing, she took him in her lap. Bhāvinī is seen instead of bhāminī in some versions. Bhāvinī means she was naturally endowed with all good qualities. She was submerged completely in affection for her son. Her breast was flowing strongly (pra-snutam) with milk, causing her garment to become wet.
The devotees will shine with devotion for me if I kill the demon who disturbs the universe. Thinking this, the Lord killed Tṛnāvarta, leader of rajas and tamas. An astonishing pastime related to this is now told. This event happened at some unspecified time (ekadā), since the Lord is independent of time. Or the age could not be clearly discerned since even in his youth he shows characteristics of childhood, and in childhood shows characteristics of youth. She, the most excellent woman (bhāvinī instead of bhāminī), took him from the bed, or since he was on the ground playing, she took him in her lap with force (ā). She was submerged completely in affection for her son. Her breast was flowing strongly (pra-snutam) with milk, causing her garment to become wet.
- Notice one act of caregiving you perform today — feeding, cleaning, comforting — and consciously offer that affection to Kṛṣṇa, not merely to the body in front of you.
- When you serve someone you love, refuse the impersonalist drift; remember Kṛṣṇa accepts service rendered in vātsalya, sakhya, or dāsya — the relationship is real and personal.
- Speak to a parent or caretaker in your life today and recognize, in their sneha for you, a faint reflection of Yaśodā's love for Kṛṣṇa.
A bee, having drunk deep from a single lotus, leans back exhausted into the very flower that filled her — and the lotus, with its own scent, pats her down. Kṛṣṇa drinks His mother's milk, and her sneha is itself the lotus that fills Him; vātsalya feeds the Lord even as the Lord feeds upon her body's nectar.
When Kṛṣṇa visited Vidura's hut in Hastināpura, Vidura's wife was so absorbed in vātsalya-bhāva — though she stood as host, not mother — that she absent-mindedly fed Kṛṣṇa the peels and threw the bananas away. Kṛṣṇa ate the peels with delight, valuing the prema, not the substance (Bhāgavatam, Mahābhārata-derived hagiography).
The principle of 10.7.34: when sneha is genuine, the Lord accepts even what the offering's material would not, in itself, deserve. Yaśodā's milk is real and pure; Vidura's wife's banana peels are not — but in both cases, Kṛṣṇa is fed by the sneha behind the substance.
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