Text 19] The Residents of Jambiadvipa Offer Prayers 187
tive actions, cannot maintain his wife, her children, her wealth or her
duration of life. Therefore, factually the only real husband of all women
is Krsna, the supreme husband. Because the gopis were liberated souls,
they understood this fact. Therefore they rejected their material hus-
bands and accepted Krsna as their real husband. Krsna is the real hus-
band not only of the gopis, but of every living entity. Everyone should
perfectly understand that Krsna is the real husband of all living entities,
who are described in the Bhagavad-gité as prakrti (female), not purusa
(male). In Bhagavad-gita (10.12), only Krsna is addressed as purusa:
param brahma param dhaéma
pavitram paramam bhavan
purusam sasvatam divyam
adi-devam ajam vibhum
“You are the Supreme Brahman, the ultimate, the supreme abode and
purifier, the Absolute Truth and the eternal divine person. You are the
primal God, transcendental and original, and You are the unborn and all-
pervading beauty.”

Krsna is the original purusa, and the living entities are prakrti. Thus
Krsna is the enjoyer, and all living entities are meant to be enjoyed by
Him. Therefore any woman who seeks a material husband for her pro-
tection, or any man who desires to become the husband of a woman, is
under illusion. To become a husband means to maintain a wife and
children nicely by supplying wealth and security. However. a material
husband cannot possibly do this, for he is dependent on his karma. Kar-
mand daiva-netrena: his circumstances are determined by his past frui-
tive activities. Therefore if one proudly thinks he can protect his wife. he
is under illusion. Krsna is the only husband, and therefore the relation-
ship between a husband and wife in this material world cannot be ab-
solute. Because we have the desire to marry, Krsna mercifully allows the
so-called husband to possess a wife, and the wife to possess a so-called
husband, for mutual satisfaction. In the [sopanisad it is said, tena tyak-
tena bhunjitha: the Lord provides everyone with his quota. Actually.
however, every living entity is prakrti, or female, and Krsna is the only
husband.
