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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.82.33

వసుదేవ: పరిష్వజ్య సమ్ప్రీత: ప్రేమవిహ్వల: । స్మరన్ కంసకృతాన్ క్లేశాన్ పుత్రన్యాసం చ గోకులే ॥ ౩౩ ॥
vasudevaḥ pariṣvajya
[vasudevah parishvajya]
samprītaḥ prema-vihvalaḥ
[sampreetah prema-vihvalah]
smaran kaṁsa-kṛtān kleśān
[smaran kamsa-kritaan kleshaan]
putra-nyāsaṁ ca gokule
[putra-nyaasam cha gokule]
vasudevaḥ — Vasudeva pariṣvajya — embracing (Nanda Mahārāja) samprītaḥ — overjoyed prema — due to love vihvalaḥ — beside himself smaran — remembering kaṁsa - kṛtān — created by Kaṁsa kleśān — the troubles putra — of his sons nyāsam — the leaving ca — and gokule — in Gokula .
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
vasudevaḥ pariṣvajya
vasudevaḥ
Vasudeva
pariṣvajya
embracing (Nanda Mahārāja)
samprītaḥ prema-vihvalaḥ
samprītaḥ
overjoyed
prema
due to love
vihvalaḥ
beside himself
smaran kaṁsa-kṛtān kleśān
smaran
remembering
kaṁsa - kṛtān
created by Kaṁsa
kleśān
the troubles
putra-nyāsaṁ ca gokule
putra
of his sons
nyāsam
the leaving
ca
and
gokule
in Gokula .
  • prema-vihvalaḥ — beside himself due to love
    Compound: prema (perfected love) + vihvalaḥ (overwhelmed, helpless). The exact Gauḍīya phrase for prema's bodily impact. Vihvalatā — the soul shaken open by love it cannot contain. Mahāprabhu's biographies are saturated with this word.
  • putra-nyāsam — the leaving of his sons (in trust)
    Compound: putra (son) + nyāsam (deposit, entrusting). Nyāsa is a legal-religious term — a sacred trust. Vasudeva deposited his sons with Nanda; the trust held. Gauḍīyas read all bhakti as ātma-nikṣepa — the soul deposited with the Lord.
  • kaṁsa-kṛtān kleśān — the troubles created by Kaṁsa
    Compound phrase: kaṁsa (the tyrant) + kṛtān (made) + kleśān (afflictions, accusative plural). Kleśas are the standard Vaiṣṇava category for affliction (cf. avidyā-asmitā-rāga-dveṣa-abhiniveśa, but here in social-historical form).
  • samprītaḥ — overjoyed
    Compound: sam (fully) + prītaḥ (loved, satisfied). Prīti — affectionate satisfaction. The relief of grief through bhakti-meeting; not absence of feeling but feeling's right fulfilment.
Vasudeva embraced Nanda Mahārāja with great joy. Beside himself with ecstatic love, Vasudeva remembered the troubles Kaṁsa had caused him, forcing him to leave his sons in Gokula for Their safety.
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Vasudeva embraced Nanda Mahārāja with great joy. Beside himself with ecstatic love, Vasudeva remembered the troubles Kaṁsa had caused him, forcing him to leave his sons in Gokula for Their safety.
Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Commentary

Having described the Vṛṣṇis’ reaction in general, now Vasudeva’s detailed reaction is described. More than the others, Vasudeva was completely overjoyed and then overcome with prema—with ecstatic symptoms like goose bumps and trembling. He remembered how Kaṁsa had imprisoned him and killed his other sons and how he had put his son or his two sons in Gokula. He remembered the previous incidents on seeing Nanda, because of recalling the great help Nanda had been in freeing him from suffering.

Related values
Vairagya (Detachment / Dispassion)Discriminative WisdomAbhaya (Fearlessness)Seva (Service / Selfless Action)Samata (Equanimity / Even-mindedness)Anahankarah (Freedom from False Ego)
Related verses

Some embraces hold not just the body in your arms but the years they survived through. Vasudeva clasps Nanda and inside the embrace is the night he carried the infant Kṛṣṇa across the Yamunā — every grief that gift cost him.

Vasudeva carrying Kṛṣṇa to Gokula

On the night of Kṛṣṇa's birth, with Kaṁsa hunting newborns, Vasudeva carried his eighth child through chains that fell open, doors that unbarred themselves, and a Yamunā that parted (SB 10.3-4). He laid Kṛṣṇa beside the sleeping Yaśodā and took her newborn daughter back to the prison.

For decades Vasudeva did not see the son he had carried. Embracing Nanda at Kurukṣetra, all of that returns — putra-nyāsam ca gokule, the leaving of his sons in Gokula. Gauḍīyas treasure this verse as proof that Vraja vātsalya is not just Nanda-Yaśodā's privilege; Vasudeva's heart contains the same fire.

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