Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.81.14
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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alabdhvā dhanam
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not having obtained wealth
Gerund of √labh with negation + dhanam (wealth). The verse's plain factual statement: he received nothing. The chapter's reversal in the next scene will make this absence the most dense container of presence.
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na
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did not beg
Past active participle of √yāc (to ask) with negation. He did not even ask. Sudāmā's restraint is doctrinally weighty — Bhagavān gives only to those who do not ask, says verse 37 ahead.
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vrīḍitaḥ
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embarrassed
Same word as verse 5, returning. The lajjā that prevented his offering also prevented his asking. Both are bhāva-driven paralyses; both Kṛṣṇa already knew how to resolve.
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mahat-darśana
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the audience of the Supreme Lord
Compound: mahat (the great one) + darśana (sight, audience). Gauḍīya: sādhu-darśana and bhagavat-darśana are the principal accelerants of bhakti. Sudāmā has had bhagavat-darśana itself; nothing else need follow for him to be nirvṛta.
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nirvṛtaḥ
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made joyful, fulfilled
Past participle of nir + √vṛt (to be free from, to be at peace). The word also names liberation-adjacent peace (nirvṛti). The brāhmaṇa's empty hands and full heart together name the bhakta's natural state.
Though he had not received anything from his friend he returned home. He had not asked for anything because he was shy. He was blissful because of seeing the Lord.
He did not obtain wealth from his friend. Kṛṣṇa did not give by his desire (svayam) or Śrīdāmā did not personally (svayam) ask, because he was a friend. It was not proper to ask the Lord for wealth. He was ashamed, but, blissful on seeing the Lord, he went home. Or because he was ashamed he did not ask. Without attaining wealth he returned home, because he was blissful on seeing the Lord. Or though blissful, he went home in shame, since he went to the Lord to get some wealth and came back without it.
A son who has come home to his father and forgotten to ask for the inheritance he came for — only the father's embrace is in his memory as he leaves. Sudāmā walks home empty-handed and joy-filled; mahat-darśana is the inheritance.
Dhruva Mahārāja, after seeing Viṣṇu, was ashamed that he had asked for a kingdom rather than for the Lord Himself (SB 4.9). Sudāmā's vrīḍā here is the same bhāva: in front of Bhagavān, asking for anything other than Bhagavān becomes unspeakable. The brāhmaṇa walks away nirvṛtaḥ — fulfilled by the audience, satisfied beyond what asking could have produced.
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Source: vedabase.io