Text 22] The Lord’s Pastimes Out of Vrndavana 111

ment, He nevertheless exhibited much attachment for His pure devotees
on the earth, as well as for the demigods who engage in His service in the
heavenly planets as powerful delegated directors in the management of all
material activities. He displayed special attachment for His family members,
the Yadus, as well as for His sixteen thousand wives, who had the
opportunity to meet Him in the leisure hours of night. All these attach-
ments of the Lord are manifestations of His internal potency, of which the
external potency is only a shadow representation. In the Skanda Purana,
Prabhasa khanda Chapter, in the topics between Lord Siva and Gauri,
there is confirmation of His internal potential manifestations. There is
mention of the Lord’s meeting with sixteen thousand cowherd damsels
although He is the Hamsa (transcendental) Supersoul and maintainer of all
living entities. The sixteen thousand cowherd damsels are a display of
sixteen varieties of internal potencies, This will be more elaborately
explained in the Tenth Canto. It is said there that Lord Krsna is just like
the moon and the internal potential damsels are like the stars around the
moon.

TEXT 22

qed TAN ATTN: TE |
TAIT Wy Ra: aA Nz

tasyaivam ramamanasya
samvatsara-ganan bahun

grhamedhesu yogesu
viragah samajayata

tasya—His; evam—thus; ramamanasya—enjoying; samvatsara—many
years; ganan—number; bahun—great many; grhamedhesu—in household
life; yogesu—in sex life; viragah— detachment; samajayata— awakened.

TRANSLATION

The Lord was thus engaged in household life for many, many years, but
at last His detachment from ephemeral sex life was fully manifested.

PURPORT

Even though the Lord is never attached to any kind of material sex
life, as the universal teacher He remained a householder for many, many
years, just to teach others how one should live in householder life. Srila
Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakur explains that the word samajayata means
“fully exhibited.” In all His activities while present on the earth, the
