Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 10.35.6-7

barhina-stabaka-dhatu-palasair

baddha-malla-paribarha-vidambah

karhicit sa-bala ali sa gopair

gah samahvayati yatra mukundah

tarhi bhagna-gatayah sarito vai

tat-padambuja-rajo 'nila-nitam

sprhayatir vayam ivabahu-punyah

prema-vepita-bhujah stimitapah

SYNONYMS

barhina -- of peacocks; stabaka -- with the tail feathers; dhatu -- with colored minerals; palasaih -- and with leaves; baddha -- arranged; malla -- of a wrestler; paribarha -- the apparel; vidambah -- imitating; karhicit -- sometimes; sa-balah -- with Balarama; ali -- my dear gopi; sah -- He; gopaih -- with the cowherd boys; gah -- the cows; samahvayati -- calls; yatra -- when; mukundah -- Lord Mukunda; tarhi -- then; bhagna -- broken; gatayah -- their movement; saritah -- the rivers; vai -- indeed; tat -- His; pada-ambuja -- of the lotus feet; rajah -- the dust; anila -- by the wind; nitam -- brought; sprhayatih -- hankering for; vayam -- ourselves; iva -- just like; abahu -- slight; punyah -- the piety to whose credit; prema -- due to love of God; vepita -- trembling; bhujah -- whose arms (waves); stimita -- stopped; apah -- whose water.

TRANSLATION

My dear gopi, sometimes Mukunda imitates the appearance of a wrestler by decorating Himself with leaves, peacock feathers and colored minerals. Then, in the company of Balarama and the cowherd boys, He plays His flute to call the cows. At that time the rivers stop flowing, their water stunned by the ecstasy they feel as they eagerly wait for the wind to bring them the dust of His lotus feet. But like us, the rivers are not very pious, and thus they merely wait with their arms trembling out of love.

PURPORT

The gopis state here that the sound of Krsna's flute causes even inanimate objects like rivers to become conscious and then stunned in ecstasy. Just as the gopis could not always be in Krsna's physical association, the rivers could not come to the Lord's lotus feet. Although they desired the Lord, their movement was checked by ecstasy, and their "arms," their waves, trembled with love of Godhead.

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