Verse Text
netuḥ svarūpam evoktaṁ kaiśoram iha yadyapi |
nānākṛti-prakaṭanāt tathāpy uddīpanaṁ matam ||334||
Translation
Even though the age of youth is said to be the svarūpa of the protagonist (ālambana), it is also considered to be the stimulus (uddīpana) because of appearing as one among many forms of age.
Purport (Jiva Goswami)
It was already shown in verse 305 that though the qualities are part of the svarūpa of Kṛṣṇa, differentiation is made, and thus the qualities act as stimuli (uddīpanas). Taking the age of youth as an example, the same principle is established again, confirming their status as stimuli. Though youth (kaiśoram) is the svarūpa of the protagonist (netuḥ), because of being a quality of the svarūpa, youth is also a stimulus, because of appearing at a suitable time among the different forms of childhood, boyhood and youth, following after the possessor of those qualities, Kṛṣṇa Himself. The ages always follow after the ālambana, the foundation of the qualities. The stimuli (uddīpanas) appear now and then.