SB 10.70.2 — FolioCorpus

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.70.2

వయాంస్యరోరువన్కృష్ణం బోధయన్తీవ వన్దిన: । గాయత్స్వలిష్వనిద్రాణి మన్దారవనవాయుభి: ॥ ౨ ॥

vayāṁsy aroruvan kṛṣṇaṁ

[vayaamsy aroruvan krishnam]

bodhayantīva vandinaḥ

[bodhayanteeva vandinah]

gāyatsv aliṣv anidrāṇi

[gaayatsv alishv anidraani]

mandāra-vana-vāyubhiḥ

[mandaara-vana-vaayubhih]

Word-for-word

vayāṁsi — birds aroruvan — sounded loudly kṛṣṇam — Lord Kṛṣṇa bodhayanti — waking iva — as if vandinaḥ — bards gāyatsu — as they sang aliṣu — bees anidrāṇi — aroused from sleep mandāra — of pārijāta trees vana — from the garden vāyubhiḥ — by the breeze .

Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)

vayāṁsy aroruvan kṛṣṇaṁ

vayāṁsi

birds

aroruvan

sounded loudly

kṛṣṇam

Lord Kṛṣṇa

bodhayantīva vandinaḥ

bodhayanti

waking

iva

as if

vandinaḥ

bards

gāyatsv aliṣv anidrāṇi

gāyatsu

as they sang

aliṣu

bees

anidrāṇi

aroused from sleep

mandāra-vana-vāyubhiḥ

mandāra

of pārijāta trees

vana

from the garden

vāyubhiḥ

by the breeze .

Important Words

vandinaḥ — bards, panegyrists
The birds are likened to court bards whose duty is to wake the king with verses of his fame. In Vraja, the same office is held by the peacocks and parrots; here in Dvārakā, the pārijāta-grove birds take the role. Creation itself sings the Lord awake.
mandāra — pārijāta tree
The pārijāta is the heavenly wish-fulfilling tree Kṛṣṇa brought down from Indra's heaven for Satyabhāmā (SB 10.59). Its presence in His garden quietly proves that all desire-fulfillment now resides with Him, not with the demigods.
kṛṣṇam — Lord Kṛṣṇa
He who is all-attractive, the source of all incarnations (kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam, SB 1.3.28). That this very svayam-bhagavān allows Himself to be woken like an ordinary king is the heart of His narottama-līlā.
bodhayanti iva — as if waking
The iva (as if) is doctrinally crucial — Kṛṣṇa never sleeps (He is nitya-jāgrat); His 'waking' is līlā, performed for the satisfaction of His devotees who serve Him in the role of householder.

The bees’ buzzing, caused by the fragrant breeze from the pārijāta garden, roused the birds from sleep. And when the birds began to sing loudly, they woke Lord Kṛṣṇa like court poets reciting His glories.

Gauḍīya Ācāryas

Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya

Translation

The bees' buzzing, caused by the fragrant breeze from the pārijāta garden, roused the birds from sleep. And when the birds began to sing loudly, they woke Lord Kṛṣṇa like court poets reciting His glories.

Commentary

Awakened by the fragrant breezes, the bees were singing. This singing awakened the birds. These birds, like bards, awakened Krsna.

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya

Commentary

The birds woke up Kṛṣṇa like bards because they chirped loudly in a large group. How did they wake up? The bees hummed. In the early morning first the cool breeze blew. The branches of large trees began to sway. The bees in the flowers on the trees began to hum. The birds then woke up. This is a summary of the early morning.

Related values & verses

Related values

Nishkama Karma (Selfless Action)Adambhitva (Non-hypocrisy / Authenticity)Vairagya (Detachment / Dispassion)Tejas (Inner Radiance / Vigour)Discriminative Wisdom

Concepts

Jiva

Personal Guidance

Analogy

Kṛṣṇa is woken not by an alarm but by bards — the bees among the pārijāta blossoms and the birds in the garden recite His glories at dawn. The whole created order is shaped into a court ritual whose only purpose is to greet Him.

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