• kāruṇikaḥ — the compassionate one
  From karuṇā (compassion). The verse's pivotal name for Kṛṣṇa. Withholding wealth here is the compassionate act — the opposite of the world's logic. Gauḍīyas: Bhagavān's karuṇā often looks like deprivation from outside.
• mādyan uccaiḥ — delighting excessively (intoxicated)
  Present participle of √mad (to be intoxicated). Wealth's natural pharmacology — mada — would cause the bhakta to forget the giver. Verse 37 will name this pattern explicitly.
• na mām smaret — would not remember Me
  Negation + potential of √smṛ. The risk Kṛṣṇa weighs: wealth-now might cost smaraṇa-later. Smaraṇa is the limb of bhakti He prizes most. Gauḍīya logic: He gives or withholds wealth strictly to maximize smaraṇa.
• adhanaḥ — poor person
  a (not) + dhana (wealth). Kṛṣṇa's interior assessment of Sudāmā: a fragile bhakta whose interior state could not yet hold wealth. The chapter answers this — by the end, the wealth comes only after Sudāmā has internally rehearsed remembering Him without it.
• abhūri — slight, not abundant
  a + bhūri (abundant). Even a small amount of wealth was withheld — because the risk was not in quantity but in any wealth touching him while presence and wealth were simultaneously available. Kṛṣṇa separates them in time, so neither contaminates the other.

A wise physician withholds the sweet medicine that would intoxicate the patient and prolong the cure. Kṛṣṇa, kāruṇika (compassionate), withheld wealth from Sudāmā as he stood before Him — because wealth-with-presence might have replaced the presence itself in the brāhmaṇa's mind.