Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.84.29
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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nirhāraḥ
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purging, removal
From nir- (out) + √hṛ (to take). The phrase karmaṇā karma-nirhāraḥ frames the rest of the chapter. Gauḍīyas read it as pointing toward yajña-as-bhakti: karma performed as worship of Viṣṇu (verse 35) is the karma that dissolves prior karma — the classical karma-yoga reading of BG 3.9, yajñārthāt karmaṇaḥ.
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sarva-devebhyaḥ
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to all the demigods
Vasudeva addresses the sages as comprising all the demigods. Gauḍīyas note that the Vaiṣṇava ṛṣi is treated as comprehending all deva-tattva — pūjā of the sādhu is implicit pūjā of every demigod (cf. SB 4.31.14).
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śrotum arhatha
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please be willing to hear me
śrotum (to hear) + arhatha (you are worthy). Polite request. Gauḍīyas note that the householder approaching the sage does not demand instruction — he asks to be heard, an inversion that itself constitutes saṅga-dharma.
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ucyatām
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please say
Passive imperative of √vac. The standard śiṣya-question form. Gauḍīyas note that the Bhāgavatam's many great teachings (BG 1.21–22; SB 1.1.1) issue from exactly this passive-imperative — an open hand toward the speaker.
Here Vasudeva addresses the sages as “the residence of all the demigods.” His statement is confirmed in the authoritative śruti-mantras, which declare, yāvatīr vai devatās tāḥ sarvā veda-vidi brāhmaṇe vasanti: “Whatever demigods exist, all reside in a brāhmaṇa who knows the Veda. ”
" I offer respects to you, the form of all the devatas." This shown in sruti which says, "All the devatas reside in the brahmana who knows the Vedas." "Please describe how I can destroy the bondage of karma by action, because, being greatly attached to house, children and wives, I am not qualified for jnana or bhakti."
Though he knew the answer, he asked the sages in order to protect codes of respect by taking proof from persons qualified to teach.
I offer respects to you (vaḥ). He first offers respects out of devotion in order to make a request. O sages! You are omniscient! Therefore you should listen to me. You are qualified. I make this request. Though he knows the answer he asks them. At that holy place he wanted the assembled kings, sages and relatives to follow what the sages said, with a desire for a festive sacrifice.
Vasudeva, knowing that karma drags the karmī between two birth-banks, asks the sages the question of how karma itself might be set against karma — like a man with a thorn in his foot asking which other thorn would pull this one out. The whole second half of the chapter is the sages' answer.
My note
Source: vedabase.io