Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.71.19
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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mā bhaiṣṭa
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do not fear
Imperative of bhī with prohibition. The Lord's most consoling formula — He removes fear by speech act, because His speech is itself karaka.
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ghāṭayiṣyāmi
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I shall cause to be killed
Causative future — 'I shall arrange the killing.' Kṛṣṇa is the karayitā, the one who causes; Bhīma will be the karaṇa. The grammar preserves both agencies, neither erasing the devotee nor displacing the Lord.
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prīṇayan
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pleasing
Present participle — pleasing as He speaks. Kṛṣṇa's speech is always nourishing to the hearer; even a war-order is delivered as kindness.
The statement ma bhaiṣṭa, “do not fear,” is in the plural, being intended for both the messenger and the kings. Similarly, the expression bhadraṁ vaḥ, “blessings unto you,” is also in the plural, expressing a similar intent.
The Lord said to the messenger, "Do not fear. I will kill Jarasandha." The phrase "Do do not fear (ma bhaista)" is in the plural because he is addressing all of the kings.
Remembering the Lord’s great, fathomless mercy and maintaining his vow to deliver the surrendered, Śukadeva speaks with a choked voice. “Do not fear. I will have Jarāsandha killed through Bhīma.”
The Lord pleased the messenger with words like “Do not fear” or “They are my devotees. Thus very soon their desires will be fulfilled” since he was most merciful (bhagavān). I will have him killed through Bhīma.
Kṛṣṇa's reassurance to the messenger — 'fear not, I shall arrange the killing' — is like a king pressing his signet into wax for a poor petitioner: the words are simple, but the seal behind them is everything.
The phrase mā bhaiṣṭa, 'do not fear,' is one of the Lord's signature consolations across śāstra — Rāma to Vibhīṣaṇa, Kṛṣṇa to Arjuna in Bg 18, the Lord to the gopīs in 10.32 (mā maṁsthā). Wherever the Lord says it, the future is already adjusted.
Gauḍīyas point to abhayaṁ sattva-saṁśuddhiḥ (Bg 16.1) — fearlessness is the first divine quality, and it is supplied by Bhagavān's own promise, not by the devotee's strength.
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