Bhagavatapurana 10.82: atha dvyaśītitamo'dhyāyaḥ

10.82.1

/0 śrī-śuka uvāca
athaikadā dvāravatyāṃ vasato rāma-kṛṣṇayoḥ /
sūryoparāgaḥ su-mahān āsīt kalpa-kṣaye yathā //

Śrī Śuka said:
Then once, while Rāma and Kṛṣṇa were dwelling in Dvāravatī, / there occurred a great solar eclipse, as if at the dissolution of an eon.

1. Sri Suka said:— Next, when Rama and Krishna were in Dwaraka, there occurred on a certain day a Solar eclipse of extraordinary degree like that at the time of deluge.

10.82.2

taṃ jñātvā manujā rājan purastād eva sarvataḥ /
samanta-pañcakaṃ kṣetraṃ yayuḥ śreyo-vidhitsayā //

Learning of it beforehand, O king, people from all directions / went to the sacred field of Samanta-pañcaka, desiring to secure their welfare,

2. When they knew it all (good) people, O king, from all sides, went in advance to the holy place of Syamanta Panchaka in order to secure great religious merit. 3. And there Parasurama, who was exterminating the kshatriya race on the earth had caused great pools filled with the blood of kings.

10.82.3

niḥkṣatriyāṃ mahīṃ kurvan rāmaḥ śastra-bhṛtāṃ varaḥ /
nṛpāṇāṃ rudhiraugheṇa yatra cakre mahā-hradān //

Where Rāma, the best of weapon-bearers, while ridding the earth of kṣatriyas, / formed great lakes with the torrents of the kings' blood.

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īje ca bhagavān rāmo yatrāspṛṣṭo 'pi karmaṇā /
lokaṃ saṅgrāhayann īśo yathānyo 'ghāpanuttaye //

And the Lord Rāma sacrificed there, though untouched by action,
the Lord guiding the world, as if another [man], for the removal of sin.

4. Though not touched by any evil act the glorious Parasurama performed a sacrifice, like an ordinary mortal, for the expiation of sin, in order to teach the world.

10.82.5

mahatyāṃ tīrtha-yātrāyāṃ tatrāgan bhāratīḥ prajāḥ /
vṛṣṇayaś ca tathākrūra- vasudevāhukādayaḥ //

Upon that great pilgrimage the people of Bharata's realm went thither,
and the Vṛṣṇis as well, Akrūra, Vasudeva, Āhuka, and the rest.

5. On that grand occasion of pilgrimage to holy waters, all the peoples of Bharata continent went thither: as also Krishna followed by His sixteen thousand queens in palanquins, by sons, grandsons, by crowds of people and by His troops, by courtesans like unto she-elephants, by the ladies of the city and other friendly women in companies: also the Vrishnis, Akrura, Vasudeva, and Ahuka (Gada) and others.

10.82.6

yayur bhārata tat kṣetraṃ svam aghaṃ kṣapayiṣṇavaḥ /
gada-pradyumna-sāmbādyāḥ sucandra-śuka-sāraṇaiḥ /
āste 'niruddho rakṣāyāṃ kṛtavarmā ca yūtha-paḥ //

They went to that holy field, O descendant of Bharata, wishing to burn away their sins:
Gada, Pradyumna, Sāmba, and the others, with Sucandra, Śuka, and Sāraṇa;
Aniruddha remained behind for protection, and Kṛtavarman the commander of the army.

6. All went, O Bharata, to that holy place to wash off their sin-Gada, (Satha) Pradyumna, Samba and others with Suchandra, Suka (Suvajra, Uddhava) and Sarana.

7 & 8. Anirudha, Kritavarma and the commander-in-chief formed the escort (D. Having appointed Ahuka and Kritavarman to guard the city), all adorned with wreaths of gold, shone on the way with great splendour, leading the chariots like unto temples (admired by the gods) and with horses springing like waves. With elephants roaring like clouds and foot-men who shone like Vidyadharas.

10.82.7

te rathair deva-dhiṣṇyābhair hayaiś ca tarala-plavaiḥ /
gajair nadadbhir abhrābhair nṛbhir vidyādhara-dyubhiḥ //

They, with chariots resembling the mansions of the gods, and with horses of swift gait,
with trumpeting elephants like clouds, and with men of the splendor of Vidyādharas,

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vyarocanta mahā-tejāḥ pathi kāñcana-mālinaḥ /
divya-srag-vastra-sannāhāḥ kalatraiḥ khe-carā iva //

shone upon the road, possessed of great radiance, wearing golden garlands,
arrayed in celestial wreaths, garments, and armor, with their wives, like sky-farers.

9. Having a supply of fine clothes and wreaths of flowers and looking like gods in the sky with their wives, there the blessed people bathed, kept fast, with their mind under perfect control.

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tatra snātvā mahā-bhāgā upoṣya su-samāhitāḥ /
brāhmaṇebhyo dadur dhenūr vāsaḥ-srag-rukma-mālinīḥ //

Bathing there, those fortunate ones, having fasted with concentrated minds,
gave cows to the brāhmaṇas, garlanded with cloths, wreaths, and gold.

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rāma-hradeṣu vidhi-vat punar āplutya vṛṣṇayaḥ /
dadaḥ sv-annaṃ dvijāgryebhyaḥ kṛṣṇe no bhaktir astv iti //

Having bathed according to rule again in the lakes of Rāma, the Vṛṣṇis
gave fine food to the foremost of the twice-born, saying: “May we have devotion unto Kṛṣṇa.”

10 & 11. Having again bathed according to rules in Parasurama's pools, Vrishnis, whose Deity was Krishna, obtained His permission, distributed food (gold), to the great brahmins with the prayer, 'may we ever be blessed with devotion to Krishna!'

10.82.11

svayaṃ ca tad-anujñātā vṛṣṇayaḥ kṛṣṇa-devatāḥ /
bhuktvopaviviśuḥ kāmaṃ snigdha-cchāyāṅghripāṅghriṣu //

And having eaten themselves with their permission, the Vṛṣṇis, whose divinity was Kṛṣṇa,
sat at ease beneath trees with pleasant shade.

12. After they broke their fast, they at pleasure took their seats beneath shady, evergreen trees and interviewed their friends, relations and princes that had met there.

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tatrāgatāṃs te dadṛśuḥ suhṛt-sambandhino nṛpān /
matsyośīnara-kauśalya- vidarbha-kuru-sṛñjayān //

There they beheld kings who had come, their friends and relatives:
the Matsyas, Uśīnaras, Kauśalyas, Vidarbhas, Kurus, and Sṛñjayas,

13 & 14. Of Matsya, Useenara, Kosala, Vidarbha, Kuru, Srinjaya, Kamboja, Kekaya, Madhra, Kunti, Anarta, Kerala and other countries and also of other countries in hundreds: both of the one side and of the other. They also met Nanda—Gopas and gopis who were their friends and long yearning to see them.

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kāmboja-kaikayān madrān kuntīn ānarta-keralān /
anyāṃś caivātma-pakṣīyān parāṃś ca śataśo nṛpa /
nandādīn suhṛdo gopān gopīś cotkaṇṭhitāś ciram //

the Kāmbojas, Kaikayas, Madras, Kuntis, Ānartas, and Keralas,
and hundreds of others of their own party and of the other, O king,
and their friends the cowherds, Nanda and the others, and the cowherd women, long yearning [for them].

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anyonya-sandarśana-harṣa-raṃhasā protphulla-hṛd-vaktra-saroruha-śriyaḥ /
āśliṣya gāḍhaṃ nayanaiḥ sravaj-jalā hṛṣyat-tvaco ruddha-giro yayur mudam //

With the beauty of their lotus-like hearts and faces blossoming from the swift rush of joy at seeing one another,
embracing tightly, with tears flowing from their eyes, their hair standing on end, their voices choked, they attained joy.

15. Their hearts leaped for joy to meet one another: and with their heart and face glowing like wide open lotuses, they embraced closely, tears trickled from their eyes, their hair stood on end and their voice faltered, they were all transported with joy.

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striyaś ca saṃvīkṣya mitho 'ti-sauhṛda- $ smitāmalāpāṅga-dṛśo 'bhirebhire &

And the women, gazing upon one another with glances from the spotless corners of their eyes smiling with intense affection, embraced,

16. When they met, women also mutually embraced with smiles and clear (unsteady) glances in their overflowing love, pressing against one another their bosoms smeared with pigments of saffron, and with tears of joy standing in their eyes.

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stanaiḥ stanān kuṅkuma-paṅka-rūṣitān % nihatya dorbhiḥ praṇayāśru-locanāḥ //

pressing bosom to bosom smeared with saffron paste
with their arms, their eyes filled with tears of affection.

10.82.16

tato 'bhivādya te vṛddhān yaviṣṭhair abhivāditāḥ /
sv-āgataṃ kuśalaṃ pṛṣṭvā cakruḥ kṛṣṇa-kathā mithaḥ //

Then, having saluted the elders and having been saluted by the younger,
enquiring of each other's welcome and welfare, they spoke of Kṛṣṇa among themselves.

17. Then they bowed to the elderly people and they were bowed to by the younger, welcomed one another and enquired after their welfare and mutually recounted the deeds of Krishna.

10.82.17

pṛthā bhrātṝn svasṝr vīkṣya tat-putrān pitarāv api /
bhrātṛ-patnīr mukundaṃ ca jahau saṅkathayā śucaḥ //

Pṛthā, seeing her brothers, sisters, their sons, her parents as well,
her brothers' wives, and Mukunda, abandoned her grief through conversation.

18. Kunti saw her brothers and sisters, their children and their parents and the wives of his brothers and Mukunda and had her griefs soothed in her conversation with them.

10.82.18

/0 kunty uvāca
ārya bhrātar ahaṃ manye ātmānam akṛtāśiṣam /
yad vā āpatsu mad-vārtāṃ nānusmaratha sattamāḥ //

Kuntī said:
O noble brother, I consider myself one whose desires are unfulfilled,
since you, best of the virtuous, do not remember news of me in times of misfortune.

19. Kunti said:— O brother, respected brother, I think I am not blessed: or it may be that you, O happy souls, do not think of me when I am in difficulties.

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suhṛdo jñātayaḥ putrā bhrātaraḥ pitarāv api /
nānusmaranti sva-janaṃ yasya daivam adakṣiṇam //

Friends, kin, sons, brothers, and even parents
do not remember their own kin when fate is unkind to them.

20. Friends, relations, sons, brothers and even parents do not remember their own relation to whom Providence is not propitious.

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/0 śrī-vasudeva uvāca
amba māsmān asūyethā daiva-krīḍanakān narān /
īśasya hi vaśe lokaḥ kurute kāryate 'tha vā //

Śrī Vasudeva said:
O mother, do not hold malice against us, men who are playthings of fate;
for the world is in the power of the Lord; [man] acts or is made to act.

21. Vasudeva said:— Mother, do not find fault with us— us who are mortals and toys in the hands of God. The world does indeed act under the control of the Supreme Ruler, i. e. it is made to act.

10.82.21

kaṃsa-pratāpitāḥ sarve vayaṃ yātā diśaṃ diśam /
etarhy eva punaḥ sthānaṃ daivenāsāditāḥ svasaḥ //

Tormented by Kaṃsa, all of us fled in every direction;
only now, O sister, have we been brought back to our place by destiny.

22. Harassed by Kamsa we had been away in different directions: it is only just now, O sister, we have been brought to one place by Providence.

10.82.22

/0 śrī-śuka uvāca
vasudevograsenādyair yadubhis te 'rcitā nṛpāḥ /
āsann acyuta-sandarśa- paramānanda-nirvṛtāḥ //

Śrī Śuka said:
Honored by Vasudeva, Ugrasena, and the other Yadus, those kings
were filled with the supreme bliss of beholding Acyuta.

23. Sri Suka said:— Honoured by Vasudeva, Ugrasena and other Yadus, all those kings felt very much rejoiced and happy to have seen Achyuta.

10.82.23

bhīṣmo droṇo 'mbikā-putro gāndhārī sa-sutā tathā /
sa-dārāḥ pāṇḍavāḥ kuntī sañjayo viduraḥ kṛpaḥ //

Bhīṣma, Droṇa, the son of Ambikā, Gāndhārī along with her sons,
the Pāṇḍavas with their wives, Kuntī, Sañjaya, Vidura, Kṛpa,

24. Bhishma, Drona, Dhritarashtra and also Gandhari with her sons, Pandavas with their wives, Kunti, Srinjaya, Vidura, Kripa.

10.82.24

kuntībhojo virāṭaś ca bhīṣmako nagnajin mahān /
purujid drupadaḥ śalyo dhṛṣṭaketuḥ sa kāśi-rāṭ //

Kuntībhoja, Virāṭa, Bhīṣmaka, the great Nagnajit,
Purujit, Drupada, Śalya, Dhṛṣṭaketu along with the king of Kāśi,

25. Kunti, Bhoja, Virata, Bhishmaka, the great Nagnajit, Purujit, Drupada, Salya, (Saibya) Dhrishtaketu, king of Kasis.

10.82.25

damaghoṣo viśālākṣo maithilo madra-kekayau /
yudhāmanyuḥ suśarmā ca sa-sutā bāhlikādayaḥ //

Damaghoṣa, Viśālākṣa, the king of Mithilā, the kings of Madra and Kekaya,
Yudhāmanyu, Suśarman, and Bāhlika and others with their sons,

26. Damaghosha, Visalaksha, Maithila, Madra and Kekaya, Yudhamanyu, Susarma, Bahlika and others with their sons.

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rājāno ye ca rājendra yudhiṣṭhiram anuvratāḥ /
śrī-niketaṃ vapuḥ śaureḥ sa-strīkaṃ vīkṣya vismitāḥ //

and whatever kings, O best of kings, were devoted to Yudhiṣṭhira,
seeing the body of Śauri, the abode of fortune, accompanied by his wives, were filled with wonder.

27. These and also other kings who were attached to Yudhitisra were (with their queens) astonished to see Sri Krishna's person, the abode of excellence in the company of His queens.

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atha te rāma-kṛṣṇābhyāṃ samyak prāpta-samarhaṇāḥ /
praśaśaṃsur mudā yuktā vṛṣṇīn kṛṣṇa-parigrahān //

Then they, properly received with honor by Rāma and Kṛṣṇa,
filled with joy, praised the Vṛṣṇis who had Kṛṣṇa as their possession:

28. Then, having been duly honoured by Rama and Krishna all.those kings lauded the Vrishnis who were Krishna's kith and kin and under His care.

10.82.28

aho bhoja-pate yūyaṃ janma-bhājo nṛṇām iha /
yat paśyathāsakṛt kṛṣṇaṃ durdarśam api yoginām //

“Ah, O Lord of the Bhojas, you are the ones among men here who have attained [the purpose of] birth,
since you see repeatedly Kṛṣṇa, who is difficult to be seen even by yogins.

29. O king of Bhojas, of all the men in this world, it is you that are born to have life's purpose accomplished: for you constantly have before your eyes Krishna who is not easily seen even by Yogins.

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yad-viśrutiḥ śruti-nutedam alaṃ punāti $ pādāvanejana-payaś ca vacaś ca śāstram &

His renown, praised by the Vedas, this water that washes his feet, and his word, the scripture, thoroughly purify [the universe];
and the earth, though its fortune was scorched away by time, having power awakened by the touch of his lotus feet, showers upon us all desired objects.

30. His glory sung by the Vedas thoroughly purifies this world: so does the water that washes His feet: also the sastra which is the word He utters; though its fortune is dried up by Time, now endowed with virtue by the touch of His lotus feet this earth showers on us all the desired things.

30. D. The word that proceeds from His (Krishna's) lips is the Vedas and Sastra and it does purify this world, as well as the water that washes His feet. Though her power (productive property) was burnt up by the Fire of Time, the earth has her virtue revived and enhanced by the touch of His lotus-feet and showers on us all the desired objects—That Krishna you directly see and so you have had a most fruitful worthy birth and life.

10.82.29

bhūḥ kāla-bharjita-bhagāpi yad-aṅghri-padma- % sparśottha-śaktir abhivarṣati no 'khilārthān //

Even the earth, whose fortune was scorched by time, with her power aroused by the touch of his lotus feet, showers upon us all desired objects.

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tad-darśana-sparśanānupatha-prajalpa- $ śayyāsanāśana-sayauna-sapiṇḍa-bandhaḥ &

By seeing him, touching him, walking behind him, conversing with him,
sharing his bed, seat, and meals, and bound to him by matrimonial alliance and blood relationship,

31. For with you dwells that Vishnu, the all-pervading Lord Himself who bestows Swarga, Apavarga and puts an end to worldly attachments and you see Him, touch Him, follow Him, talk to Him, bed, sit and eat with Him and form relations of affinity with Him, though you are placed in the domestic life, which is (generally) the way to hell.

31. D. You do directly see, touch, and follow Him, talk, bed, sit and eat with Him and closely embrace His eternally youthful person; and He, the all-pervading Vishnu who is the terminus of Swarga and Moksha—who is the source of all pleasure and bliss in Swarga and Moksha, has of His own accord been in your house, though you are in the house (the house-holders' life which is the High road to hell (and miseries).

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tad-darśana-sparśanānupatha-prajalpa- $ śayyāsanāśana-sayauna-sapiṇḍa-bandhaḥ &

bound by seeing him, touching him, following him, conversing with him, sharing his bed, seat, and food, and by marital and kinship ties—

10.82.30

yeṣāṃ gṛhe niraya-vartmani vartatāṃ vaḥ % svargāpavarga-viramaḥ svayam āsa viṣṇuḥ //

for you, who abide in the home—the pathway to hell—
Viṣṇu himself has become the cessation of heaven and liberation!”

10.82.31

/0 śrī-śuka uvāca
nandas tatra yadūn prāptān jñātvā kṛṣṇa-purogamān /
tatrāgamad vṛto gopair anaḥ-sthārthair didṛkṣayā //

Śrī Śuka said:
Nanda, knowing that the Yadus had arrived there, led by Kṛṣṇa,
came thither surrounded by the cowherds with their goods in wagons, wishing to see them.

32. Sri Suka said:— Knowing that Krishna and other Yadus had gone there, Nanda (soon) came thither to see them, with Gopas and with abundant supplies of provisions in their carts.

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taṃ dṛṣṭvā vṛṣṇayo hṛṣṭās tanvaḥ prāṇam ivotthitāḥ /
pariṣasvajire gāḍhaṃ cira-darśana-kātarāḥ //

Seeing him, the Vṛṣṇis, delighted, stood up like bodies regaining their life-breath,
and embraced him tightly, anxious after their long separation.

33. Vrishnis were rejoiced to see Him like bodies that rise on the advent of Prana: they closely embraced Him, as they were for long anxious to see Him.

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vasudevaḥ pariṣvajya samprītaḥ prema-vihvalaḥ /
smaran kaṃsa-kṛtān kleśān putra-nyāsaṃ ca gokule //

Vasudeva, embracing him, was overjoyed and overwhelmed with love,
remembering the hardships caused by Kaṃsa and the entrustment of his son in Gokula.

34. Vasudeva was very glad to embrace Nanda with overwhelming affection, remembered how he was put to affliction by Kamsa and how he had entrusted his son to Nanda's care at Gokula.

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kṛṣṇa-rāmau pariṣvajya pitarāv abhivādya ca /
na kiñcanocatuḥ premṇā sāśru-kaṇṭhau kurūdvaha //

Kṛṣṇa and Rāma, embracing their parents and saluting them,
spoke nothing out of love, their throats choked with tears, O bull of the Kurus.

35. Krishna and Rama embraced and bowed to the parents and would not say anything as tears of joy choked their throat, O best of Kurus.

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tāv ātmāsanam āropya bāhubhyāṃ parirabhya ca /
yaśodā ca mahā-bhāgā sutau vijahatuḥ śucaḥ //

Setting the two of them on their own laps and embracing them with their arms,
[Nanda and] the fortunate Yaśodā cast aside their sorrows for their two sons.

36. And Yasoda too with her arms embraced them seated on her lap; Nanda and the highly blessed Yasoda dismissed all their anxiety. 37. Rohini and Devaki also embraced Yasoda, remembered the friendship she cherished for them and with their throats choked with tears, said falteringly thus.

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rohiṇī devakī cātha pariṣvajya vrajeśvarīm /
smarantyau tat-kṛtāṃ maitrīṃ bāṣpa-kaṇṭhyau samūcatuḥ //

Then Rohiṇī and Devakī, embracing the queen of Vraja,
remembering the friendship shown by her, their voices choked with tears, said:

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kā vismareta vāṃ maitrīm anivṛttāṃ vrajeśvari /
avāpyāpy aindram aiśvaryaṃ yasyā neha pratikriyā //

“What woman could forget your unceasing friendship, O queen of Vraja,
for which there is no repayment here, even having obtained the sovereignty of Indra?

38. Who having risen to even Indra’s fortune could, O Yasoda, forget thy friendship and love which could never vanish? For there is no repaying it here.

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etāv adṛṣṭa-pitarau yuvayoḥ sma pitroḥ $ samprīṇanābhyudaya-poṣaṇa-pālanāni &

These two, who had not seen their parents, received from you two parents
delight, upbringing, nourishment, and protection,
and lived like the eyelids to the eyes,

39. Not knowing who their parents were and placed in your hands as parents, these enjoyed all the care and caressing, had all the prosperous growth and development,—nourishment and protection and lived, O lady, under your care like the eyes under the lids, without any cause of fear (except from the good): for the righteous make no distinction between things as their own, or, as not.

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prāpyoṣatur bhavati pakṣma ha yadvad akṣṇor % nyastāv akutra ca bhayau na satāṃ paraḥ svaḥ //

kept safe without fear from any quarter; for the virtuous, there is no ‘other’ or ‘one’s own’.”

10.82.39

/0 śrī-śuka uvāca
gopyaś ca kṛṣṇam upalabhya cirād abhīṣṭaṃ $ yat-prekṣaṇe dṛśiṣu pakṣma-kṛtaṃ śapanti &
gopyaś ca kṛṣṇam upalabhya cirād abhīṣṭaṃ $ yat-prekṣaṇe dṛśiṣu pakṣma-kṛtaṃ śapanti &
dṛgbhir hṛdī-kṛtam alaṃ parirabhya sarvās % tad-bhāvam āpur api nitya-yujāṃ durāpam //

Śrī Śuka said:
And the cowherd women, having found after a long time Kṛṣṇa, their beloved—
at whose gazing they curse the creator of eyelids on their eyes—
brought him fully into their hearts with their eyes, embraced him,
and attained absorption into him, which is difficult to attain even for those ever united [in yoga].

40. Sri Suka said:—Also gopis met their long-desired Krishna: while seeing Him they cursed their eyelids for their interruptions: they all closely embraced Krishna whom they set in their heart through their eyes and (at once) became one with Him—an attainment not within the easy reach even of those who are always engaged in Yoga.

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bhagavāṃs tās tathā-bhūtā vivikta upasaṅgataḥ /
āśliṣyānāmayaṃ pṛṣṭvā prahasann idam abravīt //

The Lord, approaching them who were in that state in a secluded place,
embraced them, enquired of their health, and smilingly spoke as follows.

41. In a secluded place the Almighty Lord met them, who were in those various conditions, embraced them, enquired about their well-being, laughed and said.

10.82.41

api smaratha naḥ sakhyaḥ svānām artha-cikīrṣayā /
gatāṃś cirāyitāñ chatru- pakṣa-kṣapaṇa-cetasaḥ //

Do you remember us, O friends, who departed wishing to accomplish the purpose of our kin, / and stayed away for so long, our minds set on destroying the side of the enemy?

42. Friends, do you remember that we went away for accomplishing the purposes of our people and were long out of sight, our heart bent on destroying the enemies’ side, (being busy with other affairs out of pity for the helpless).

10.82.42

apy avadhyāyathāsmān svid akṛta-jñāviśaṅkayā /
nūnaṃ bhūtāni bhagavān yunakti viyunakti ca //

Do you perhaps harbor resentment against us, suspecting us of ingratitude? / Surely the Lord unites and separates beings.

43. Perhaps you have been thinking ill of us, doubting our gratefulness. Certainly it is the Almighty Lord who brings together or separates beings. (D. Having considered well, this is what I suppose that it is only the Almighty Lord etc.)

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vāyur yathā ghanānīkaṃ tṛṇaṃ tūlaṃ rajāṃsi ca /
saṃyojyākṣipate bhūyas tathā bhūtāni bhūta-kṛt //

Just as the wind brings together and scatters again a mass of clouds, grass, cotton, and dust, / so does the creator of beings [bring together and scatter] beings.

44. Just as the wind brings together, or, scatters the clouds, blades of straw, cotton and particles of dust, so does the creator unite or scatter beings of His creation.

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mayi bhaktir hi bhūtānām amṛtatvāya kalpate /
diṣṭyā yad āsīn mat-sneho bhavatīnāṃ mad-āpanaḥ //

Devotion to me indeed leads beings to immortality; / it is by good fortune that you have developed affection for me, which brings me to you.

45. It is only devotion to Me that leads beings to immortality; fortunately there has been on your part loving devotion towards Me that will bring you to Me. (D. that makes you blissful)

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ahaṃ hi sarva-bhūtānām ādir anto 'ntaraṃ bahiḥ /
bhautikānāṃ yathā khaṃ vār bhūr vāyur jyotir aṅganāḥ //

For I am the beginning, the end, the inside, and the outside of all beings, / just as ether, water, earth, air, and fire are of material elements, O women.

46. O women, I am indeed the beginning, the end of all beings, within and without, just as the products of the Bhutas, Akasa, water, earth, air and fire.

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evaṃ hy etāni bhūtāni bhūteṣv ātmātmanā tataḥ /
ubhayaṃ mayy atha pare paśyatābhātam akṣare //

Thus indeed these elements are pervaded by the self through itself within the elements; / behold both manifested in me, the supreme, imperishable.

47. D. So also all these Bhutas (beings); and through Paramatman, Atman is connected with all Bhutas, you therefore clearly see that both these are dependent on Akshara (Para Brahman).

47. Thus all these gross creations are present in the great Bhutas, but they are not in Atman: but Atman is in them pervading them as Bhoktri and both these do you find in Me exhibited, the perfect and undecaying One.

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/0 śrī-śuka uvāca
adhyātma-śikṣayā gopya evaṃ kṛṣṇena śikṣitāḥ /
tad-anusmaraṇa-dhvasta- jīva-kośās tam adhyagan //

Śrī Śuka said:
Thus instructed by Kṛṣṇa with teachings on the supreme self, the gopīs, / the sheaths of their individual souls destroyed by constant remembrance of him, attained him.

48. Sri Suka said:— With this precept regarding the Supreme Self, Gopis being taught by Krishna Himself, they got destroyed the sheath of the Jiva by the force of contemplating Him and attained unto Him.

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āhuś ca te nalina-nābha padāravindaṃ $ yogeśvarair hṛdi vicintyam agādha-bodhaiḥ &

And they said: O lotus-navelled one, may your lotus foot, to be contemplated in the heart by masters of yoga of profound intellect,

49. And they said, O Nalinanabha, may (we bow to) Thy lotus feet fit to be contemplated in the heart by the masters of Yoga of extensive understanding and (which is) the one support for rising out of the well of Samsara into which Jivas have fallen though confined to household life.—May (the sun of) those lotus feet be (ever present in) set in our mind, though we are in domestic life!

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saṃsāra-kūpa-patitottaraṇāvalambaṃ % gehaṃ juṣām api manasy udiyāt sadā naḥ //

the support for climbing out for those fallen into the well of the cycle of rebirth, arise always in the minds of even us who take pleasure in the home!