Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.71.18
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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hṛdi
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in the heart
Locative — the heart is the destination, not the eye. Nārada interiorises darśana; bhakti always migrates from outer form to inner residence without losing either.
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mukunda
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giver of liberation, Kṛṣṇa
Mukunda is invoked here even though sannyāsa-style mukti is not Nārada's project. For Gauḍīyas, Mukunda gives mukti so casually that it is a side-effect; the real gift is His own form in the heart.
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vyavasitam
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firm decision
Vyavasita — well-settled, determined. Kṛṣṇa's decision to travel is irrevocable; Nārada records it and goes, knowing the līlā is now fixed.
Narada departed (verb is missing but understood) by the path of the sky (vihayasa).
After their departure, Kṛṣṇa offered respects to and worshipped Nārada. Nārada then departed through the sky. He was worshipped with many articles of worship (āhṛetārhaṇaḥ). He was also worshipped by all the Yadus. Hearing that his desires concerning the Pāṇḍavas and the imprisoned kings were satisfied, he left, but was continually thinking of Kṛṣṇa in his heart, since his senses were blissful because of dealings with Kṛṣṇa who destroys all suffering, even by just seeing him.
After their departure, Kṛṣṇa offered respects to Nārada and worshipped him. Nārada then departed through the sky. He was worshipped with many articles of worship (āhṛtārhaṇaḥ). He was also worshipped by all the Yadus. Or he received presents with devotion. Why? All his senses were blissful from directly seeing the Lord who bestows the highest bliss (mukunda), or is most beautiful with teeth like kunda flowers in his mouth. From the bliss of seeing him, he lost control. Or in spite of this, placing the Lord in his heart, because his senses were blissful, he departed to Svarga to sing the Lord’s glories. Why did he go? He had heard the decision of the Lord to go to Yudhiṣṭhira’s place, and Uddhava’s advice. Or hearing about the proper treatment of the bṛahmaṇa (when Bhīma disguised himself) from Uddhava or from the questions, he departed. Another version has niśāmya (directly realizing) instead of niśamya. Instead of vyavahṛtam sometimes vyavasitam is seen.
Nārada placing Kṛṣṇa in his heart before departing through the sky is like a traveller drawing the well-water into his pot before the journey — the outer Lord becomes the inner Lord, and the road ahead is travelled with Him already drunk.
Nārada is the perpetual traveller of the three worlds — his vīṇā, his vihāyas-going, his nāma-saṅkīrtana wherever he lands. In SB 1.5–6 he gives his own life-story to Vyāsa: a previous birth as a maidservant's son, the saṅga of bhakta-brāhmaṇas, the sudden vision of the Lord lost and never recovered — only nāma left.
Here Nārada simply repeats what he has done life after life: he sees Kṛṣṇa, places Him in the heart, and flies on. The śloka models the antaryāmī-darśana that a wandering devotee carries everywhere.
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