Text 42]
Lord Kṛṣṇa Shows the Universal Form
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mātrā-sparśās tu kaunteya śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ āgamāpāyino nityās tāṁs titikṣasva bhārata
We should know that material suffering due to the material body will come and go. Therefore we must tolerate the suffering and proceed with discharging our duty as ordained by our spiritual master.
TEXT 42
अहं ममासौ पतिरेष मे सुतो व्रजेश्वरस्याखिलवित्तपा सती । गोप्यश्च गोपाः सहगोधनाश्च मे यन्माययेत्थं कुमतिः स मे गतिः ॥४२॥
ahaṁ mamāsau patir eṣa me suto vrajeśvarasyākhila-vittapā satī gopyaś ca gopāḥ saha-godhanāś ca me yan-māyayetthaṁ kumatiḥ sa me gatiḥ
aham—my existence (“I am something”); mama—my; asau—Nanda Mahārāja; patiḥ—husband; eṣaḥ—this (Kṛṣṇa); me sutaḥ—is my son; vraja-īśvarasya—of my husband, Nanda Mahārāja; akhila-vitta-pā—I am the possessor of unlimited opulence and wealth; satī—because I am his wife; gopyaḥ ca—and all the damsels of the cowherd men; gopāḥ—all the cowherd men (are my subordinates); saha-godhanāḥ ca—with the cows and calves; me—my; yat-māyayā—all such things addressed by me are, after all, given by the mercy of the Supreme; ittham—thus; kumatiḥ—I am wrongly thinking they are my possessions; saḥ me gatiḥ—He is therefore my only shelter (I am simply instrumental).
TRANSLATION
It is by the influence of the Supreme Lord’s māyā that I am wrongly thinking that Nanda Mahārāja is my husband, that Kṛṣṇa