Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 10.60.34

sri-rukminy uvaca

nanv evam etad aravinda-vilocanaha

yad vai bhavan bhagavato 'sadrsi vibhumnah

kva sve mahimny abhirato bhagavams try-adhisah

kvaham guna-prakrtir ajna-grhita-pada

SYNONYMS

sri-rukmini uvaca -- Sri Rukmini said; nanu -- well; evam -- so be it; etat -- this; aravinda-vilocana -- O lotus-eyed one; aha -- said; yat -- which; vai -- indeed; bhavan -- You; bhagavatah -- to the Supreme Lord; asadrsi -- unequal; vibhumnah -- to the almighty; kva -- where, in comparison; sve -- in His own; mahimni -- glory; abhiratah -- taking pleasure; bhagavan -- the Supreme Lord; tri -- of the three (principal deities, namely Brahma, Visnu and Siva); adhisah -- the controller; kva -- and where; aham -- myself; guna -- of material qualities; prakrtih -- whose character; ajna -- by foolish persons; grhita -- taken hold of; pada -- whose feet.

TRANSLATION

Sri Rukmini said: Actually, what You have said is true, O lotus-eyed one. I am indeed unsuitable for the almighty Personality of Godhead. What comparison is there between that Supreme Lord, who is master of the three primal deities and who delights in His own glory, and myself, a woman of mundane qualities whose feet are grasped by fools?

PURPORT

Srila Sridhara Svami lists the faults Lord Krsna had described in Himself that He claimed disqualified Him from being Rukmini's husband. These include incompatibility, fearfulness, taking shelter in the ocean, quarreling with the powerful, abandoning His kingdom, uncertainty as to His identity, acting against ordinary standards of behavior, having no good qualities, being praised falsely by beggars, aloofness, and lack of desire for family life. The Lord claimed that Rukmini had failed to recognize these bad qualities in Him. Now she begins to respond to all the Lord's statements.

First she responds to Sri Krsna's statement in Text 11 of this chapter: kasman no vavrse 'saman. "Why did you select Us, who are not equal to you?" Here Srimati Rukmini-devi says that she and Krsna are certainly not equal, for no one can be equal to the Supreme Lord. Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti further points out that in her extreme humility Rukmini is identifying herself with the Lord's external energy, which in fact is her expansion, Rukmini being the goddess of fortune.

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