• śākuneya — O son of Śakuni
  Patronymic. The Lord names Vṛka by his lineage as familiarly as a friend would — the disguise is in the address, not just the dress. Gauḍīya reading: He knows everything about the asura; that knowledge becomes intimacy, intimacy becomes the trap.
• vyaktam śrāntaḥ — evidently fatigued
  Contiguous (vyaktam + śrāntaḥ). Vyakta = manifest, evident. Hari names what the asura has been hiding even from himself — his exhaustion. The seduction begins with seeing.
• kṣaṇam viśramyatām — rest for a moment
  Contiguous (kṣaṇam + viśramyatām). The single most fatal courtesy in the chapter. Once the asura accepts the rest, he accepts the conversation; once he accepts the conversation, he accepts the verbal slips that will land his own hand on his head.
• ātmā ayam — this body
  Contiguous (ātmā + ayam). Here ātmā is used loosely for body — the very confusion Gauḍīyas correct elsewhere is, here, exactly what Hari needs to invoke for Vṛka, who lives at the body's level.
• sarva-kāma-dhuk — milking forth all desires
  Contiguous (sarva + kāma + dhuk). Dhuk = milker, from √duh. The body as the cow that yields desire-milk — a phrase calibrated to Vṛka's bodily mode of thinking. Hari uses the metaphor the asura will hear.

A great physician disguised as a fellow traveler greets the feverish man at the roadside: 'You look tired — sit a moment.' The diagnosis has already begun in the offer of rest. Kṛṣṇa, calling Vṛka 'son of Śakuni' and inviting him to pause, is not making small talk — He is reaching for the asura's exhaustion, the only opening through which the bewildering medicine can enter.