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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.81.12

బ్రాహ్మణస్తాం తు రజనీముషిత్వాచ్యుతమన్దిరే । భుక్త్వా పీత్వా సుఖం మేనే ఆత్మానం స్వర్గతం యథా ॥ ౧౨ ॥
brāhmaṇas tāṁ tu rajanīm
[braahmanas taam tu rajaneem]
uṣitvācyuta-mandire
[ushitvaachyuta-mandire]
bhuktvā pītvā sukhaṁ mene
[bhuktvaa peetvaa sukham mene]
ātmānaṁ svar-gataṁ yathā
[aatmaanam svar-gatam yathaa]
brāhmaṇaḥ — the brāhmaṇa tām — that tu — and rajanīm — night uṣitvā — residing acyuta — of Lord Kṛṣṇa mandire — in the palace bhuktvā — eating pītvā — drinking sukham — to his satisfaction mene — he thought ātmānam — himself svaḥ — the spiritual world gatam — having attained yathā — as if .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
brāhmaṇas tāṁ tu rajanīm
brāhmaṇaḥ
the brāhmaṇa
tām
that
tu
and
rajanīm
night
uṣitvācyuta-mandire
uṣitvā
residing
acyuta
of Lord Kṛṣṇa
mandire
in the palace
bhuktvā pītvā sukhaṁ mene
bhuktvā
eating
pītvā
drinking
sukham
to his satisfaction
mene
he thought
ātmānaṁ svar-gataṁ yathā
ātmānam
himself
svaḥ
the spiritual world
gatam
having attained
yathā
as if .
  • acyuta-mandire — in the palace of Lord Acyuta
    Compound: acyuta (the infallible) + mandira (palace). Acyuta — never falling — is the title used here. The palace shares the quality of its master: a place that does not fall away. Sudāmā has slept inside infallibility itself.
  • svaḥ gatam — having attained the spiritual world
    svar (heaven, the higher world) + gata (gone). The brāhmaṇa's own felt experience — and the poet treats it as accurate, not delusion. The night with Bhagavān is the spiritual world.
  • bhuktvā pītvā — eating and drinking
    Gerundives of √bhuj and √pā. Material verbs sanctified by location: the eating and drinking in Acyuta-mandira are themselves transcendental events. Gauḍīya tradition: prasāda eaten in Bhagavān's presence is not annam but amṛtam.
  • sukham — to his satisfaction
    Adverbially: comfortably, happily. The chronically half-fed brāhmaṇa eats sukham — completely — for the first time in years. The poet records the body's healing as a side-effect of the bhāva's healing.
[Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] The brāhmaṇa spent that night in Lord Acyuta’s palace after eating and drinking to his full satisfaction. He felt as if he had gone to the spiritual world.
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
[Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued:] The brāhmaṇa spent that night in Lord Acyuta's palace after eating and drinking to his full satisfaction. He felt as if he had gone to the spiritual world.
Commentary

Eating and drinking sufficiently, it was as if he were in the heavenly planets (svargam yatha).

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

After the day passed, he spent one night at the palace of the Lord who was full of complete bliss (acyuta), which was like a temple. He ate and drank happily. He thought he was in heaven. This is an expression for material people. Or it can mean Vaikuṇṭha since it was already mentioned that he was in the temple of the Lord. Svaḥ can mean Vaikuṇṭha also for it is said svaś- cūḍāmaṇiṁ subhagayantam ivātma-dhiṣṇyam: it appeared that the Lord was personally spreading the beauty and good fortune of the spiritual world. (SB 3.15.39) It was like (yathā) the spiritual world because Dvārakā was the supreme Vaikuṇṭha, being eternal. Another version has suptvā. He slept with the Lord. The meter in that case would be deficient one syllable. This would be because of great bliss of the speaker.

Related values
Vairagya (Detachment / Dispassion)Discriminative WisdomAbhaya (Fearlessness)Seva (Service / Selfless Action)Samata (Equanimity / Even-mindedness)Aparigraha (Non-possessiveness)
Related verses

A traveler from a hungry village who is given a single night at the royal table later cannot tell whether the meal was in this world or in svarga. Sudāmā, eating and drinking at Acyuta's palace, feels he has crossed the boundary into the spiritual world — because where Bhagavān eats, that place is already Vaikuṇṭha.

Nārada's night in Vraja

When sage Nārada visited Vraja, he forgot Vaikuṇṭha and Kailāsa — the dust of Nanda's courtyard was sweeter. Sudāmā's experience in Dvārakā parallels this: one night in Kṛṣṇa's palace, eating in His company, is svaḥ-gata. Gauḍīyas hold that wherever Bhagavān is, His dhāma is — Dvārakā, Vraja, or the bhakta's heart.

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