Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 30


Sanskrit:

गृह्णन्ति नो न पतय: पितरौ सुता वान भ्रातृबन्धुसुहृद: कुत एव चान्ये ।तस्माद् भवत्प्रपदयो: पतितात्मनां नोनान्या भवेद् गतिररिन्दम तद् विधेहि ॥ ३० ॥

ITRANS:

gṛhṇanti no na patayaḥ pitarau sutā vāna bhrātṛ-bandhu-suhṛdaḥ kuta eva cānyetasmād bhavat-prapadayoḥ patitātmanāṁ nonānyā bhaved gatir arindama tad vidhehi

Translation:

Our husbands, fathers, sons, brothers, other relatives and friends will no longer take us back, and how could anyone else be willing to give us shelter? Therefore, since we have thrown ourselves at Your lotus feet and have no other destination, please, O chastiser of enemies, grant our desire.

Purport:

Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura comments as follows: “From their very youth the brāhmaṇas’ wives had heard about Lord Kṛṣṇa’s beauty, qualities and sweetness from the womenfolk of Vṛndāvana village, and also from the flower ladies, the betel-nut sellers and others. Consequently they always felt ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa and were indifferent to their household duties. Their husbands, seeing them as deviant, doubted them and avoided dealing with them as far as possible. Now the wives of the brāhmaṇas were ready to formally reject their so-called families and neighbors, and out of great agitation they were crying and placing their heads upon Lord Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet, offering obeisances. In this way, with choking voices, they spoke the above verse. They begged that Lord Kṛṣṇa bestow upon them the benediction that He be their only destination, that He, the chastiser of enemies, subdue all their enemies — those difficulties obstructing them from attaining the Lord.” The wives of the brāhmaṇas simply wanted to serve Lord Kṛṣṇa, and this is pure Kṛṣṇa consciousness in ecstatic love of Godhead.