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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.26

భుఞ్జాన: ప్రపిబన్ ఖాదన్ బాలకం స్‍నేహయన్త్రిత: । భోజయన్ పాయయన్ మూఢో న వేదాగతమన్తకమ్ ॥ ౨౬ ॥
bhuṣjānaḥ prapiban khādan
[bhushjaanah prapiban khaadan]
bālakaṁ sneha-yantritaḥ
[baalakam sneha-yantritah]
bhojayan pāyayan mūḍho
[bhojayan paayayan moodho]
na vedāgatam antakam
[na vedaagatam antakam]
Word-for-word
bhuṣjānaḥ — while eating prapiban — while drinking khādan — while chewing bālakam — unto the child sneha-yantritaḥ — being attached by affection bhojayan — feeding pāyayan — giving something to drink mūḍhaḥ — the foolish man na — not veda — understood āgatam — had arrived antakam — death.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
bhuṣjānaḥ prapiban khādan
bhuṣjānaḥ
while eating
prapiban
while drinking
khādan
while chewing
bālakaṁ sneha-yantritaḥ
bālakam
unto the child
sneha-yantritaḥ
being attached by affection
bhojayan pāyayan mūḍho
bhojayan
feeding
pāyayan
giving something to drink
mūḍhaḥ
the foolish man
na vedāgatam antakam
na
not
veda
understood
āgatam
had arrived
antakam
death.
When Ajāmila chewed food and ate it, he called the child to chew and eat, and when he drank he called the child to drink also. Always engaged in taking care of the child and calling his name, Nārāyaṇa, Ajāmila could not understand that his own time was now exhausted and that death was upon him.
Purport

The Supreme Personality of Godhead is kind to the conditioned soul. Although this man completely forgot Nārāyaṇa, he was calling his child, saying, “Nārāyaṇa, please come eat this food. Nārāyaṇa, please come drink this milk.” Somehow or other, therefore, he was attached to the name Nārāyaṇa. This is called ajṣāta-sukṛti. Although calling for his son, he was unknowingly chanting the name of Nārāyaṇa, and the holy name of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is so transcendentally powerful that his chanting was being counted and recorded.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
While eating, drinking and chewing, out of affection he would feed the child and make him drink. The foolish man did not know that death had arrived. Khādan means chewing.
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