Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 10.39.21

kruras tvam akrura-samakhyaya sma nas

caksur hi dattam harase batajna-vat

yenaika-dese 'khila-sarga-sausthavam

tvadiyam adraksma vayam madhu-dvisah

SYNONYMS

krurah -- cruel; tvam -- you (are); akrura-samakhyaya -- by the name Akrura (which means "not cruel"); sma -- certainly; nah -- our; caksuh -- eyes; hi -- indeed; dattam -- given; harase -- you are taking; bata -- alas; ajna -- a fool; vat -- just like; yena -- with which (eyes); eka -- in one; dese -- place; akhila -- of all; sarga -- the creation; sausthavam -- the perfection; tvadiyam -- your; adraksma -- have seen; vayam -- we; madhudvisah -- of Lord Krsna, enemy of the demon Madhu.

TRANSLATION

O Providence, though you come here with the name Akrura, you are indeed cruel, for like a fool you are taking away what you once gave us -- those eyes with which we have seen, even in one feature of Lord Madhudvisa's form, the perfection of your entire creation.

PURPORT

The gopis did not care to see anything but Krsna; therefore if Krsna left Vrndavana, their eyes would have no function. Thus Krsna's departure was blinding these poor girls, and in their distress they berated Akrura, whose name means "not cruel," as cruel indeed.

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