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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 23]
TRANSLATION
The wives of the demigods said: All glories to Queen Arci! We can see that this Queen of the great King Pṛthu, the Emperor of all the kings of the world, has served her husband with mind, speech and body exactly as the goddess of fortune serves the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Yajñeśa or Viṣṇu.
PURPORT
In this verse the words  yajñeśam śrīr vadhūr iva  indicate that Queen Arci served her husband just as the goddess of fortune serves the Supreme Personality of Godhead Viṣṇu. We can observe that even in the history of this world, when Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Viṣṇu, was ruling over Dvārakā, Queen Rukmiṇī, who was the chief of all Kṛṣṇa's queens, used to serve Lord Kṛṣṇa personally in spite of having many hundreds of maidservants to assist her. Similarly, the goddess of fortune in the Vaikuṇṭha planets also serves Nārāyaṇa personally, although there are many thousands of devotees prepared to serve the Lord. This practice is also followed by the wives of the demigods, and in days past the wives of men also followed this same principle. In Vedic civilization the husband and wife were not separated by such man-made laws as divorce. We should understand the necessity for maintaining family life in human society and should thus abolish this artificial law known as divorce. The husband and wife should live in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and follow the footsteps of Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa, or Kṛṣṇa-Rukmiṇī. In this way peace and harmony can be possible within this world.
TEXT 26
सैषा नूनं ब्रजत्यूर्ध्वमनु वैन्यं पतिं सती । पश्यतास्मानतीत्यार्चिदुर्विभाव्येन कर्मणा ॥२६॥
saiṣā nūnam vrajaty ūrdhvam anu vainyam patim satī paśyatāsmān atītyārcir durvibhāvyena karmaṇā
sā—she; eṣā—this; nūnam—certainly; vrajati—going; ūrdhvam—upwards; anu—following; vainyam—the son of Vena; patim—husband; satī—chaste; paśyata—just see; asmān—us; atītya—overpassing; arciḥ—of the name Arci; durvibhāvyena—by inconceivable; karmaṇā—activities.