Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 Chapter 60 Verse 38

pumsah striyas ca ratayoh sukha-duhkhinor na

SYNONYMS

tvam -- You; vai -- indeed; samasta -- all; purusa -- of human life; artha -- of the goals; mayah -- comprising; phala -- of the ultimate goal; atma -- the very Self; yat -- for whom; vanchaya -- out of desire; su-matayah -- intelligent persons; visrjanti -- discard; krtsnam -- everything; tesam -- for them; vibho -- O omnipotent one; samucitah -- appropriate; bhavatah -- Your; samajah -- association; pumsah -- of a man; striyah -- and a women; ca -- and; ratayoh -- who are attracted to each other in mutual lust; sukha-duhkhinoh -- who experience material happiness and distress; na -- not.

TRANSLATION

You are the embodiment of all human goals and are Yourself the final aim of life. Desiring to attain You, O all-powerful Lord, intelligent persons abandon everything else. It is they who are worthy of Your association, not men and women absorbed in the pleasure and grief resulting from their mutual lust.

PURPORT

Here Queen Rukmini refutes Lord Krsna's statement in Text 15:

yayor atma-samam vittam

janmaisvaryakrtir bhavah

tayor vivaho maitri ca

nottamadhamayoh kvacit

"Marriage and friendship are proper between two people who are equal in terms of their wealth, birth, influence, physical appearance and capacity for good progeny, but never between a superior and an inferior." In fact, only those who have given up all such material conceptions of sense gratification and have taken exclusively to the Lord's loving service can understand who their real friend and companion is -- Lord Sri Krsna Himself.

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