Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.85.5
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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adhokṣaja
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transcendental Lord (one beyond sensory reach)
Compound: adhaḥ (below) + akṣaja (sense-born knowledge). Bhagavān is beyond what the senses can grasp — yet Vasudeva is addressing Him by name as his son. The paradox is the heart of vātsalya-rasa.
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anupraviśya
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having entered within
Gerund of anu + pra + √viś. The technical word of the Upaniṣadic 'tat sṛṣṭvā tad evānuprāviśat' (Taittirīya 2.6) — the Lord's entrance into His own creation as the Supersoul. Vasudeva is quoting śruti to Kṛṣṇa Himself.
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prāṇaḥ
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the life force
Not breath in the medical sense but the cosmic life-principle. Bhagavān is the prāṇa of prāṇa — the consciousness behind the energy that animates each living being.
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jīvaḥ
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the conscious living entity
From √jīv. Here it names the Lord's role as the Supersoul who underlies and accompanies every jīva. Gauḍīyas read this in acintya-bhedābheda mode: Paramātmā and jīvātmā are simultaneously one and different.
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aja
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O unborn one
Vocative. The single word that resolves the chapter's central tension: how is the One who is aja taking birth in Vasudeva's house? Only by His own yoga-māyā — He is born without ceasing to be unborn.
When creating the material universe, the Lord expands Himself as the Paramātmā, or Supersoul, and accepts the creation as His universal body. No material body has any reason for existing without some jīva soul desiring it for his enjoyment, and no jīva can independently maintain a body without the Paramātmā accompanying him there for guidance. The Vaiṣṇava ācāryas, in their commentaries on the Second Canto of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, explain that even before Brahmā is born from the lotus navel of Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, he first accepts the whole material energy, the mahat-tattva, as his body. Thus Brahmā is the jīva embodied by the universe, and Viṣṇu is the Paramātmā who joins him. Brahmā must organize the specific manifestations of creation, but he cannot begin to do so until Lord Viṣṇu expands Himself again into the subtle energy of action — which is the sūtra-tattva, or original vital air — and also into the creative energy of consciousness, buddhi-tattva.
Morever you are the maintainer of this universe. O supersoul (atma), entering in the form of paramatma (atmana), as the sutra element made of kriya sakti (pranah) and buddhi element made of jnana sakti (jivah), you nourish the universe in the form of or prana and buddhi , or the action and knowledge gathering senses.
This verse expands on the previous verse. This universe is created in you (yatra of previous verse), and by you (yena). It is created because of you (yataḥ) and belongs to you (yasya) and is non-different from you (yad yat). The creation is for him (yasmai), as part of his creation pastime. All this is expressed by the phrase ātma-sṛṣṭam. You are the shelter of the prāṇa (kriyā-śakti) and jīva (jṣāna-śakti). This indicates the method of creation (yathā). The kriya-śakti in the form of time indicates the time of creation (yaḍā). You are the supreme shelter of everything (adhokṣaja). You are Svayam Bhagavān (aja).
This can be directly seen. There is variety in the creation: beings born from wombs etc. or various species, or big and small or with mixtures of the three guṇas. The universe is created by you alone (ātma-śṛṣṭam). Entering the universe after creation (anu), you maintain it by yourself (ātmanā). You do not depend on others. That is suitable since you have created it. In what form do you enter? O supreme ātma, antaryāmī (āṭman)! You cannot be known by anyone. O Lord beyond the senses (adhokṣaja)! This is because you are not born like others (aja). You manifest by yourself. Or you maintain the universe in yourself (ātman). You alone are the shelter of the universe. Or though manifested externally, you appear internally as well. You enter into it and support it though you are present beneath the cart in your childhood pastimes (adhokṣaja), because you are the maintainer of the bodies in the universe (prāṇaḥ) and give life to everything (jīvaḥ). Thus you are the dearest. O dearest (ātman). Thus you manifest without effort (aja).
A spider extrudes its web from itself, enters into it as it walks across it, and withdraws it back. Vasudeva uses the antaryāmī teaching directly to Kṛṣṇa's face: 'You make this world from Yourself, then enter it as the very prāṇa of every body.'
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