Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.71.24
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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hṛṣīkeśam
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Lord of the senses
Hṛṣīkeśa — master of the hṛṣīkas. The very name explains the simile: when the controller of senses arrives, the senses themselves rise to meet Him. Caitanya-line reads bhakti as hṛṣīkeṇa hṛṣīkeśa-sevanaṁ (CC Madhya 19.170) — service of Hṛṣīkeśa by the senses themselves.
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prāṇāḥ
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the senses, the vital airs
Plural prāṇa — the working principles of the body. The simile makes Kṛṣṇa the singular prāṇa to which the many prāṇas rush; jīva-paramātmā relation through breath-imagery.
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brahma - ghoṣeṇa
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with the sound of Vedic hymns
Brahma-ghoṣa — śabda-brahman, the Vedic sound. The welcome is Vedic at its core; bhakti's outpouring does not bypass śāstra-recitation, it crowns it.
Lord Kṛṣṇa is here described as Hṛṣīkeśa, the Lord of the senses, and King Yudhiṣṭhira’s rushing to the Lord is compared to the senses eagerly joining the consciousness of life. Without consciousness, the senses are useless; indeed, the senses function through consciousness. Similarly, when the individual souls are bereft of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, love of God, they enter into a useless and illusory struggle called material existence. Pure devotees like King Yudhiṣṭhira are never bereft of the Lord’s association, for they keep Him always within their heart, and yet they feel special ecstasy when they see the Lord after long separation, as described here.
Hṛṣīkeśa means “having hair which shone.” Thus from far off, he shone because of his effulgence. Or, he controlled all the senses by prema. Ādṛtaḥ means respected or worshipped. Yudhiṣṭhira was respected by Kṛṣṇa when Kṛṣṇa came to his place, got off his chariot etc. The senses which become inactive without the life air, which leaves the body as when fainting, approach the life air when it returns.
The senses going out to meet the prāṇa is the verse's own image: Yudhiṣṭhira moves toward Hṛṣīkeśa as the eye, the tongue, the hand all turn toward the breath that animates them — when the master of the senses arrives, the senses cannot stay still.
My note
Source: vedabase.io