Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.74.2
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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guravaḥ
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spiritual masters
Plural of guru. Yudhiṣṭhira names the spiritual masters of the three worlds as themselves carrying Kṛṣṇa's command. Gauḍīya parampara reads this carefully: every authentic guru is a vehicle for Bhagavān's order, never a substitute for Him.
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anuśāsanam
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command, instruction
From anu + √śās (to govern). The standing order of the Lord — what dharma is in its source. Yudhiṣṭhira is astonished that the issuer of universal anuśāsana has positioned Himself as receiver of his.
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durlabham
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rarely obtained
Dur (difficult) + labha (gain). The Lord's command is durlabha — not because He withholds it, but because the receiving heart is rare. Gauḍīyas hear this word as a quiet pointer to kṛpā: it is grace, not entitlement, that places His order on a head.
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śirasā
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on their heads
Instrumental of śiras (head). Carrying on the head is the ancient gesture of total acceptance. The whole cosmos wears Kṛṣṇa's word as crown; Yudhiṣṭhira is pointing at the absurdity of that crown turning around and asking permission of him.
Śrīla Prabhupāda renders Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira’s statement as follows: “My dear Kṛṣṇa, O eternal form of bliss and knowledge, all the exalted directors of the affairs of this material world, including Lord Brahmā, Lord Śiva and King Indra, are always anxious to receive and carry out orders from You, and whenever they are fortunate enough to receive such orders, they immediately take them and keep them in their hearts.”
Even the leaders of the three worlds carry your orders on their heads.
You control all of them. Having obtained your rare order, they accept it with devotion directly through your mouth, or through the Vedas (śirasā).
A king's signet ring is not heavy in itself, but when his order is written upon a leaf even mountains will move it. Yudhiṣṭhira marvels that Kṛṣṇa, whose anuśāsana the three worlds carry on their heads as a crown, has consented to receive instructions from him.
On the field of Kurukṣetra, the grandfather of the Kuru line — whose word once moved armies — surrendered all his śāstra at the feet of Kṛṣṇa, calling Him the only refuge. The same Bhīṣma who lectured Yudhiṣṭhira on dharma from his bed of arrows kept Kṛṣṇa's order on his own head.
Gauḍīyas read this as the structural truth Yudhiṣṭhira voices here: the rulers of dharma themselves are sub-rulers; Bhagavān's anuśāsana is what they wear.
My note
Source: vedabase.io