Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.71.23
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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ajāta - śatruḥ
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Yudhiṣṭhira, 'one whose enemy is unborn'
A compound name — ajāta (unborn) + śatru (enemy). The Mahābhārata's standard epithet for Yudhiṣṭhira; Gauḍīyas treat it as a devotional virtue rather than a political fact.
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durdarśanam
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rarely seen
Durdarśana — hard to see. The same Lord whom Vraja sees daily as the cowherd boy is here described as rarely seen by humans; the gradation of access is itself a Bhāgavata teaching.
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upadhyāyaḥ
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his priests
The royal welcome is mediated by brāhmaṇas. Dharma's structure is preserved even in spontaneous love — the priests come first, then the embrace.
As the senses go out to meet the life air, Yudisthira went out to meet Krsna.
Though Kṛṣṇa was rarely seen by living beings, he had come close (upa-āgatam). Yudhiṣṭhira had a soft, straight-forward heart (ajāta-śatruḥ). Thus his delight was natural.
Though Kṛṣṇa was rarely seen by living beings, he had come close (upa-āgatam). Yudhiṣṭhira had a soft, straight-forward heart (ajāta-śatruḥ). With peaceful heart, he was devoid of lust, anger and hatred at all times. Thus he was delighted.
Yudhiṣṭhira coming out with his priests and dear ones to meet the Lord who is rarely seen by humans is like a host who, hearing his beloved is at the gate, leaves the half-prepared welcome inside and runs out — etiquette is reordered by love.
Yudhiṣṭhira is called ajāta-śatru — 'he whose enemy was never born.' SB and Mahābhārata both gloss this as a quality of his heart, not of his political situation (he obviously has enemies). He bears no enmity toward anyone, and so, from his side, no enemy exists.
Gauḍīyas read ajāta-śatru as the devotional equivalent of suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānām (Bg 5.29) — the soul who lives in Kṛṣṇa cannot generate enemies inside himself, whatever the outer world produces.
My note
Source: vedabase.io