206 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

always thinking of the lotus feet of Lord Krsna, which is the way to
release oneself from the bondage of repeated birth and death. My dear
Queen Draupadi, 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 Brahma. Nor do we want
any of the different kinds of liberation—salokya, sarsti, samipya or sdyujya.
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 Krsna. 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 Krsna as He
travels on the land of Vrndavana as a cowherd boy. The gopis especially,
and also the cowherd men and the aborigine tribeswomen, always desire
to become the grass and straw on the street of Vrndavana, to be trampled
on by the lotus feet of Krsna. 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 Krsna, “Draupadi Meets the Queens of Krsna.”
