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Krṣṇa,  the Supreme Personality of Godhead
always thinking of the lotus feet of Lord Krṣṇa, which is the way to release oneself from the bondage of repeated birth and death. My dear Queen Draupadī, please take it from us that we are not after any opulence such as kingdom, empire, or a position of heavenly enjoyment. We do not want to enjoy such material opulences, nor do we desire to achieve the yogic perfections, nor the exhalted post of Lord Brahmā. Nor do we want any of the different kinds of liberation— sālokya ,  sārṣṭi ,  sāmīpya  or  sāyujya . We are not at all attracted by any of these opulences. Our only ambition is to bear on our heads life after life the dust particles attached to the lotus feet of Lord Krṣṇa. The goddess of fortune also desired to keep that dust on her breast along with the fragrant saffron. We simply desire this dust, which accumulates underneath the lotus feet of Krṣṇa as He travels on the land of Vṛndāvana as a cowherd boy. The  gopīs  especially, and also the cowherd men and the aborigine tribeswomen, always desire to become the grass and straw on the street of Vṛndāvana, to be trampled on by the lotus feet of Krṣṇa. My dear Queen, we wish to remain as such life after life, without any other desire.”
Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the Second Volume, Twenty-eighth Chapter, of Krṣṇa, “Draupadī Meets the Queens of Krṣṇa.”