Gopalacampu 1.14.98

1.14.98

bhāvārtha-dīpikāyāṃ ca, ṛṣabhasya jaguḥ kṛtyāni [BhP 10.33.21] ity atra ṛṣabhasya patyuḥ iti kṛṣṇavadhvaḥ iti svayam uktam idam eva patitvaṃ śrī-parīkṣit-praśnottare paty-antarābhyupagama-vādenaiva hi bahir-aṅgānām bodhāya paramātmatayā śrī-bādarāyaṇinā bodhitam: gopīnāṃ tat-patīnāṃ ca sarveṣām api ca dehinām | yo' ntaś carati so' dhyakṣaḥ eṣa krīḍana-deha-bhāk ||[BhP 10.33.35] ity atrānataraṅgān prati tv ayam arthaḥ: gopīnāṃ kāścid vyūḍhāḥ kāścid avyūḍhā iti dvidhātra loka-mātra-prasiddhānāṃ vastutas tu nitya-siddhānāṃ sarvataḥ śreyasīnāṃ tat-preyasīnām anyāsām api nānā-bhāva-samṛddhānāṃ kumārītaruṇī-vṛddhānāṃ, tathā yathā-sambhavaṃ tāsāṃ patīnāṃ tad-upalakṣitatayā kumāra-tatīnāṃ,
kiṃ bahunā? sarveṣām api tad-eka-jīvānāṃ vraja-jīvānāṃ yāni tat-tad-upacitatācita-tadīya-krīḍā-sādhana-dehāni, tad-āsaktaḥ sann antaḥ-śabdābhihite mahite jagan-netrād antar-hite sadābhave sva-vaibhave yaś carati krīḍati | sa eṣa evādhyakṣaḥ kadācij jagat-pratyakṣaḥ san krīḍati | tasmān nija-preyasībhiḥ samam anādita eva mithunateti kathanād aupapatyam asya nopapatty-arham, kintu parama-vyomādhipa-lakṣmī-nārāyaṇavad dāmpatyam eva tad-arhaṃ bhavatīti |

And in the Bhāvārtha-dīpikā, regarding the words "they sang the deeds of the bull [among men]" [BhP 10.33.21], [Śrīdhara Svāmin] himself stated: "of the bull, that is, of the husband; [hence] the wives of Kṛṣṇa." This very husbandship was taught by Śrī Bādarāyaṇi as His being the Supersoul, in reply to Śrī Parīkṣit's question, solely by adopting the assertion of other husbands for the understanding of outsiders: "He who moves within the gopīs, within their husbands, and within all embodied beings, He is the overseer, assuming a body for sport" [BhP 10.33.35]. Here, however, toward those who are not intimate, the meaning is as follows: with respect to the gopīs—some of whom are popularly known here in the world as married and some as unmarried, but who in reality are eternally perfected, most auspicious above all, His beloveds, along with others endowed with varied emotional states, whether young maidens, youthful women, or elders—as well as their husbands so far as possible, which indicates their gatherings of young boys,
in short, the bodies of all the inhabitants of Vraja, whose sole life is He, which bodies are instruments of His pastimes arranged and accumulated in various ways—He who, attached to them, moves and sports in His own eternal glory, designated by the word 'within', hidden from the eyes of the world; that very overseer, becoming visible to the world at times, sports. Therefore, since their union as a couple with His own beloveds is described as being without beginning, paramourship is not admissible in His case; rather, conjugal partnership alone is appropriate, like that of Lakṣmī and Nārāyaṇa, the lords of the supreme sky.