590 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 1, Ch. 11

patnyah—the ladies (wives of Lord Sri Krsna); patim—husband; prosya—
who was away from home; grha-anupagatam—now returned home; vilokya—
thus seeing; safijata—having developed; manah-maha-utsavah—a sense of
joyful ceremony within the mind; uttasthuh—got up; arat—from a distance;
sahasa—all of a sudden; asana--from the seats; asayat—from the state of
meditation; sakam—along with; vrataih—the vow; vridita—looking coyly;
locana—eyes; ananah— with such faces.

TRANSLATION

The queens of Lord Sri Krsna rejoiced within their minds to see their
husband home after a long period abroad. The queens got up at once
from their seats and meditations. As was socially customary, they covered
their faces shyly and looked about coyly.

PURPORT

As mentioned above, the Lord entered His home palaces occupied by
16,108 queens. This means that the Lord at once expanded Himself in as
many plenary expansions as there were queens and palaces and entered in
each and every one of them simultaneously and separately. Here is another
manifestation of the feature of His internal potency: He can expand
Himself in as many forms of spiritual identity as He desires, even though
He is one without a second. It is confirmed by the sruti mantra that the
Absolute is one alone, and yet He becomes many as soon as He so desires.
These manifold expansions of the Supreme Lord are manifested as plenary
and separated portions. The separated portions are representations of His
energy, and the plenary portions are manifestations of His Personality.
Thus the Personality of Godhead manifested Himself in 16,108 plenary
expansions and simultaneously entered into each and every one of the
palaces of the queens. This is called vaibhava, or the transcendental
potency of the Lord. And because He can do so, He is also known as
yogesvara. Ordinarily a yogi or mystic living being is able to expand him-
self at utmost to tenfold expansions of his body, but the Lord can do so
to the extent of as many thousands or infinitely, as He likes. Unbelievers
become astonished to learn that Lord Krsna married more than 16,000
queens because they think of Lord Krsna as one of them and measure the
potency of the Lord by their own limited potency. One should know,
therefore, that the Lord is never on the level of the living beings who are
but expansions of His marginal potency, and one should never equalize
