Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.8.36
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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vyādehi
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open (Your mouth) wide
Imperative of vi-ā-√dhā — 'to open wide, to spread apart'. The verbal hinge of the universal-form revelation. A mother's casual command becomes the instruction that triggers viśva-rūpa-darśana — the cosmic in the everyday.
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bhagavān hariḥ
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the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Lord
Bhagavān (full of six opulences) + Hari (the remover). The verse names Him with His most majestic titles at the very moment He acts most child-like. Gauḍīya doctrinal core: aiśvarya is never absent in mādhurya, only veiled.
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avyāhata - aiśvaryaḥ
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without minimizing His potencies of opulence
A (not) + vyāhata (obstructed, diminished) + aiśvarya (opulence). The verse explicitly clears the Advaita-leaning reading: Kṛṣṇa's full Bhagavān-tattva is uninterrupted even when He plays as a child. The infant body holds, not hides, the six opulences.
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krīḍā
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pastimes, play
From √krīḍ. The verse names mukha-vidāraṇa as krīḍā — pure līlā. Yaśodā thinks she is administering discipline; Bhagavān is performing krīḍā. Same act, two registers.
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manuja - bālakaḥ
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exactly like a human child
Manuja (human) + bālaka (boy). Iva-vat ('like') is the Gauḍīya hermeneutic key: Kṛṣṇa appears manuja-bālaka-vat — like a human child — but is in fact svayaṁ-bhagavān. The verse's compound itself is the qualifier.
Without disturbing the ecstasy of His mother’s affection, Kṛṣṇa opened His mouth and displayed His own natural opulences. When a person is given varieties of food, there may be a hundred and one varieties, but if one likes ordinary śāka, spinach, he prefers to eat that. Similarly, although Kṛṣṇa was full of opulences, now, by the order of mother Yaśodā, He opened wide His mouth like a human child and did not neglect the transcendental humor of maternal affection.
Krsna, afraid of punishment told a lie in order that Yasoda could not detect his fault. How could he do this however? If he were to open his mouth the evidence would be found. The answer is given: he possesses unimpeded, non contradictory power (avyahataisvarya). He whose power is undefeated does not seek out this power because of the influence of sweetness of love. But looking for service, it finds some opportunity. Inspired by the boy’s power of satya sankapa (whose very desire must be fulfilled), this unimpeded aisvarya on its own manifested the universal form, and Yasoda, lost in astonishment, forgot to scold her son. Was it necessary for Krsna to taste the sweetness of prema and thus have to show fear of being beaten? He could have stood there without fear, taking the help of his aisvarya sakti, thinking "I am the Lord." The answer is found in the words krida manuja balakah. This means krida pradhana manuja balakah. Krsna was taking the form of a human child to perform mainly playful, sweet pastimes.
In this pastime Kṛṣṇa is Bhagavān, endowed with eternal, unlimited powers, which cause restriction of love in the mind, and is also Hari, auspiciousness with predominant revelation of sweetness, which attracts the mind. He exists without completely (ā) giving up certain (vi) of his powers. Though he does not care for these powers in these pastimes, these powers remain near him and always wait for the opportunity of his particular pastime where they can serve him. He is a human child through his pastimes (kṛīḍā-manauja-bālakaḥ). Or he is a child endowed with humans like Nanda and Yaśodā who are part of his eternal pastimes, unlike humans bound by māyā and karma. As the scriptures state, he is endowed with eternal pastimes. Both he and they make their appearance by his will for producing rasa in his pastimes. The blue lotus of his mouth blossomed by the slight rays from the sun of Yaśodā’s anger. In the previous verse it was mentioned that he glanced about with fearful eyes. Kṛṣṇa is the enjoyer of the rasa of his pastimes. The aiśvarya or power of this Kṛṣṇa solves what appears to be unsolvable in order to produce his desired rasa in the pastime, either on its own, or by embracing him (taking his consent). His aiśvarya thus displayed the universe within him, in order to nourish Yaśodā’s prema with astonishment and in order to help her by making his words true when he said he did not eat dirt-- by showing that everything exists within him and by producing a differing mood to erase Yaśodā’s anger. In the pastime with Tṛṇāvarta, his aiśvarya made him heavy. It should be understood that his aiśvarya with its inconceivable power to fulfill his desires reaches its highest perfection in these acts.
Revealing unlimited qualities of Bhagavān (saḥ), the ocean of indescribablely great sweetness, who was the supreme Lord (bhagavān) and who attracted everyone’s heart, opened his mouth. Or he who was full of all powers (bhagavān), who appeared in this world to attract everyone’s heart, whose powers were unobstructed even during his infant pastimes, being superior to Nārāyān, who had power to show the universe with cause and effect in his stomach, opened his mouth. He was a human child performing eternal pastimes. Thus human child form was also eternal. He was a human child performing pastimes. Or he was a child (bālaka) born to play (krīḍām anuja). Or he was a child (bālakaḥ) going quickly (ja) here and there in playing (krīḍām anu), with his hair swining.
- Today, meet a loved one in the role they expect of you (son, parent, friend) without using your 'opulences' to overpower their affection.
- Notice when you puff up your credentials in an intimate setting; instead, lower yourself like a bālaka and let the relationship lead.
- When chanting or reading about Kṛṣṇa's childhood pastimes, refuse the impersonalist urge to 'symbolize' them — receive Him as the personal Lord submitting to His mother.
An emperor in disguise, asked by the village headwoman to open his cloak to prove he carries no contraband, opens it — and the cloak reveals not contraband but the imperial seal she had forgotten he wore. Kṛṣṇa opens His mouth at Yaśodā's command, and the aiśvarya she had asked Yoga-māyā to forget shines anyway, undimmed.
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