Bhagavatapurana 10.32
English (machine translation) 10.32
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Śrī Śuka said:
Thus singing aloud and lamenting in manifold ways, / the gopīs wept loudly, O king, longing for the sight of Kṛṣṇa.
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Before them appeared the descendant of Śūra, his lotus face smiling, / wearing yellow garments, wearing a garland, the bewilderer of the god of love himself.
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Beholding him, their dearest, arrive, the women, their eyes blooming with joy, / all rose at once, just as limbs rise when life returns.
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One joyfully seized the lotus hand of the descendant of Śūra with her folded palms; / another placed his arm, adorned with sandalwood paste, upon her shoulder.
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A slender girl caught in her folded hands the chewed betel nut [he gave]; / another, burning [with separation], placed his lotus feet upon her breasts.
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One, knitting her eyebrows, distraught with the impetuousness of love, / bit her lip and looked at him with side-glances as if striking him.
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Another, drinking in his lotus face with unblinking eyes, / was not satiated even after drinking it, just as virtuous devotees are never sated with his feet.
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Taking him into her heart through the aperture of her eyes and closing them, / one woman embraced him, her body thrilled with horripilation, and remained flooded with bliss like a yogin.
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All of them, attaining supreme delight from the sight of Keśava, / cast off the torment born of separation, just as people do on reaching a wise sage.
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Surrounded by them, whose sorrow was dispelled, the Lord, Acyuta, / shone exceedingly bright, dear king, like the Supreme Person with his potencies.
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Taking them with him, the almighty Lord entered the sandbank of the Yamunā, / where bees were drawn by the breeze fragrant with blooming kunda and mandāra flowers,
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auspicious with the darkness of the night dispelled by the cluster of autumn moonbeams, / and covered with soft sand swept up by the hand-like waves of the Yamunā.
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With the sorrow of their hearts dispelled by the joy of beholding him, having reached the end of their desires as do the Vedic scriptures, / they arranged a seat for their self-chosen friend with their upper garments marked with the saffron of their breasts.
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Sitting there, the Lord, the Ruler whose seat is prepared within the hearts of the masters of yoga, / shone in the assembly of the gopīs, worshipped by them, / bearing a form that is the sole abode of all beauty in the three worlds.
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Having honoured him who kindles the god of love with smiling, playful glances and graceful movements of their eyebrows, / and with the touch of their hands placing his feet upon their laps, and having praised him, they spoke, slightly piqued:
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The gopīs said:
Some reciprocate only to those who love them; some do the opposite; / and some reciprocate to neither. Explain this properly to us, sir!
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The Lord said:
Friends, those who love one another only in mutual exchange are striving solely for their own interest; / there is neither friendship nor dharma in that, for it is strictly for self-interest and nothing else.
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Those who, full of compassion, love even those who do not love them, as parents do, / possess irreproachable dharma and true affection, O slender-waisted women!
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Some do not love even those who love them, so how could they love those who do not? / They are either those delighting in the self, those whose desires are fulfilled, the ungrateful, or those who betray their elders.
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However, friends, I do not reciprocate even with living beings who worship me, in order to foster their constant devotion, / just as a poor man who has obtained wealth and then lost it, absorbed in thoughts of it, knows nothing else.
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Thus, O women, so that your devotion might continually flow to me, since for my sake you abandoned the world, the Vedas, and your kinsmen, / I, while remaining within your reach, concealed myself; therefore, O beloved ones, you ought not to hold a grudge against me, your beloved!
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I am not able to repay my debt to you, of blameless union, even throughout a lifetime of the gods— / you who have broken the hard-to-sever shackles of domestic life to love me; let that deed be repaid by your own goodness!
Translations (1)
- The Srimad Bhagavatam — S. Subba Rau 1928, English
Commentaries (1)
- Bhāvārthadīpikā — Śrīdhara Svāmin, Sanskrit
Linked texts (1)
- Bhāgavatapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit