Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.90.27
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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jagat-gurum
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the spiritual master of the universe
jagat (universe) + guru (teacher). Bhagavān is the original guru — Brahmā received the Veda from Him (Bhāgavata 1.1.1). Yet the queens render Him pāda-saṁvāhana — they massage the universal teacher's feet. Reversal is bhakti's signature.
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pāda-saṁvāhana
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massaging the feet
Compound: pāda (foot) + saṁvāhana (rubbing, massaging). The intimate service of a wife to a husband in classical dharma-śāstra — and the gopīs' own desired service (SB 10.31.13). The queens occupy this exact posture.
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premṇā
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with love
Instrumental of prema — mature, supreme love. Distinguished by Rūpa Gosvāmī from rati and bhāva: prema is fully ripened, irreducible, the prayojana itself. The queens served with prema, not merely duty.
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bhartṛ-buddhyā
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thinking of Him as their husband
Compound instrumental: bhartṛ (husband) + buddhi (conviction, conception). The queens know what they are doing. Sambandha is a buddhi — a settled cognition — not merely a feeling. The queens' theology is conscious.
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tapaḥ
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austerity
From √tap. The verse asks: what tapas did they do to earn this? Gauḍīyas: tapas alone cannot earn it; only bhakti can, and only by Kṛṣṇa's grace. The queens have done both — uncountable austerity and pure-hearted bhakti.
"What type of austerity is to be described for them for attaining that position?" "None, because they were nitya siddhas." Or one may ask, "For those among them who were sadhana siddhas, what type of austerities should have been done to get that position?" "They served him by massaging his feet, thinking of him as their husband."
These women were most fortunate and not others because of their special love. Others just by thinking of him as their husband, though he was not their husband directly, because of prema, served the Supreme Lord (jagadguru) with complete devotion (sam—paryacaran) by meditating that they massaged his feet. How can one describe the greatness of their worship (tapas)? One cannot describe it. What to speak of describing those who directly serve him eternally as his wives?
They and no others are the most fortunate. They serve him with complete dedication, not depending on anything else--massaging his feet, washing his feet, combing his hair, fanning him etc. He is the most worthy of worship among all beings such as Brahmā. He is most rare to attain. They serve him, thinking of him as their husband (bhartṛ-buddhyā). How to describe the fortune of their worship? One cannot describe its greateness. Śukadeva indicates the mood of the gopīs. Though that is the highest prema, he gives respect to the queens’ love for Kṛṣṇa as a husband, in which they can freely serve him, and he is not satisfied with having marriage of the gopīs in Vraja. Thus here the greatness of the Lord accepting household life to enjoy various pastimes with the queens has been described. Or what can be said? He gave these dear devotees his mercy. That is the intention of the verse.
The queens served the jagad-guru Himself — massaging the feet of Bhagavān, with the intimacy of wives. What tapas did they perform to earn this? The verse declines to count. Some prema is beyond accounting; it is given, not earned.
Earlier in this canto (SB 10.22) the unmarried gopīs of Vraja vowed a month-long Kātyāyanī-vrata, bathing in the cold Yamunā daily and praying for Kṛṣṇa as husband. The vrata was intense, and Bhagavān answered by stealing their clothes and granting them what they asked.
The queens of Dvārakā are similarly the fruit of tapas immeasurable. Gauḍīyas read the gopīs' vrata as the prototype: the queens have done its equivalent in past lives. The verse refuses to enumerate — only Bhagavān knows what His own devotees performed to earn His feet.
My note
Source: vedabase.io