1006 Srimad-Bhagavatam [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 Prthu, 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,
Yajiiesa or Visnu.

PURPORT

In this verse the words yajiiesam Snir vadhur iva indicate that Queen
Arci served her husband just as the goddess of fortune serves the
Supreme Personality of Godhead Visnu. We can observe that even in the
history of this world, when Lord Krsna, the Supreme Visnu, was ruling
over Dvaraka, Queen Rukmini, who was the chief of all Krsna’s queens,
used to serve Lord Krsna personally in spite of having many hundreds of
maidservants to assist her. Similarly, the goddess of fortune in the
Vaikuntha planets also serves Narayana personally, although there are
many thousands of devotees prepared to serve the Lord. This practice is
also followed by the wives of fhe 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 Krsna consciousness and follow the footsteps of
Laksmi-Narayana, or Krsna-Rukmini. In this way peace and harmony can
be possible within this world.

TEXT 26
an ad ancelng Fai oft adit |
THATS AEA | BHT REI
saisa nunam vrajaty urdhvam
anu vainyam patim sati
pasyatasman atityarcir
durvibhavyena karmana

sd—she; esd—this; ninam—certainly; vrajatigoing; irdhvam—upwards;
anu—following; vainyam—the son of Vena; patim—husband; sati—chaste;
pasyata—just see; asman—us; atitya—overpassing; arcih—of the name
Arci; durvibhavyena—by inconceivable; karmana—activities.
