Text 42] Lord Krsna Shows the Universal Form 127

matrd-sparsds tu kaunteya
Sitosna-sukha-duhkha-déh
dgamapdayino nityds
tams titiksasva bharata

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
aé wma watT a aa
awash =| ad |
THI WM: aaa a
Tea FAA: TA Tas UVR!

aham mamdsau patir esa me suto
vrajesvarasyakhila-vittapa sati

gopyas ca gopah saha-godhands ca me
yan-mayayettham kumatih sa me gatih

aham—my existence (“Iam something”); mama—my; asau—Nanda
Maharaja; patih—husband; esah—this (Krsna); me sutah—is my son;
vraja-isvarasya—of my husband, Nanda Maharaja; akhila-vitta-pa—I
am the possessor of unlimited opulence and wealth; sati—because I am
his wife; gopyah ca—and all the damsels of the cowherd men; gopah—
all the cowherd men (are my subordinates); saha-godhanah ca—with
the cows and calves; me—my; yat-mdayayd—all such things addressed
by me are, after all, given by the mercy of the Supreme; ittham—thus;
kumatih—I am wrongly thinking they are my possessions; sah me
gatih—He is therefore my only shelter (I am simply instrumental).

TRANSLATION

It is by the influence of the Supreme Lord’s maya that I am
wrongly thinking that Nanda Maharaja is my husband, that Krsna
