Text 26]
Departure of Lord Kṛṣṇa for Dvārakā
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TEXT 26
अहो अलं श्लाघ्यतमं यदोः कुल- महो अलं पुण्यतमं मधोर्वनम् । यदेष पुंसामृषभः श्रियः पतिः स्वजन्मना चङ्क्रमणेन चाञ्चति ॥२६॥
aho alaṁ ślāghyatamaṁ yadoḥ kulam aho alaṁ puṇyatamaṁ madhorvanam yad eṣa puṁsām ṛṣabhaḥ śriyaḥ patiḥ sva-janmanā caṅkramaṇena cāñcati
aho-oh; alam-verily; ślāghyatamam-supremely glorified; yadoḥ-of King Yadu; kulam-dynasty; aho-oh; alam-verily; puṇyatamam-supremely virtuous; madhorvanam-the land of Mathurā; yat-because; eṣaḥ-this; puṁsām-of all the living beings; ṛṣabhaḥ-supreme leader; śriyaḥ-of the goddess of fortune; patiḥ-husband; sva-janmanā-by His appearance; caṅkramaṇena-by crawling; ca añcati-glories.
TRANSLATION
Oh how supremely glorified is the dynasty of King Yadu, and how virtuous is the land of Mathurā where the supreme leader of all living beings, the husband of the goddess of fortune, has taken His birth and wandered in His childhood.
PURPORT
In the  Bhagavad-gītā  the Personality of Godhead Śrī Kṛṣṇa has expressively given a description of His transcendental appearance, disappearance and activities. The Lord appears in a particular family or place by His inconceivable potency. He does not take His birth as a conditioned soul quits his body and accepts another body. But His birth is like the appearance and disappearance of the sun. The sun arises on the eastern horizon, but that does not mean that the eastern horizon is the parent of the sun. The sun is existent in every part of the solar system, but he becomes visible at a scheduled time and so also becomes invisible at another scheduled time. Similarly, the Lord appears in this universe like the sun and again leaves