TEXT 60
na tvam vidarbha-duhita
nayam virah suhrt tava
na patis tvam puranjanya
ruddho nava-mukhe yaya
SYNONYMS
nanot; tvamyou; vidarbha-duhitadaughter of Vidarbha; nanot; ayamthis; virahhero; su-hrtwell-wishing husband; tavayour; nanot; patihhusband; tvamyou; puranjanyahof Puranjani; ruddhahcaptured; nava-mukhein the body having nine gates; yayaby the material energy.
TRANSLATION
Actually, you are not the daughter of Vidarbha, nor is this man, Malayadhvaja, your well-wishing husband. Nor were you the actual husband of Puranjani. You were simply captivated in this body of nine gates.
PURPORT
In the material world many living entities come into contact with one another and, increasing their attachment to a particular type of body, become related as father, husband, mother, wife, etc. Actually every living entity is a separate individual being, and it is because of his contact with matter that he comes together with other bodies and becomes falsely related. False bodies create various associations in the name of family, community, society and nationality. Actually every living entity is part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but the living entities are overly engrossed in the material body. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, appears and gives instructions in the form of Bhagavad-gita and Vedic literatures. The Supreme Lord gives these instructions because He is the eternal friend of the living entities. His instructions are important because by them the living entity can obtain liberation from bodily engagement. As water passes down a river, many straws and grasses are carried from the shore. These straws and grasses come together in the rivers current, but when the waves toss this way and that, they are separated and carried somewhere else. Similarly, the innumerable living entities within this material world are being carried by the waves of material nature. Sometimes the waves bring them together, and they form friendships and relate to one another on a bodily basis of family, community or nationality. Eventually they are thrown out of association by the waves of material nature. This process has been going on since the creation of material nature. In this regard, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura sings:
miche mayara vase, yaccha bhese,
khaccha habudubu, bhai
jiva krsna-dasa, ei visvasa,
karle ta ara duhkha nai
My dear living entities, you are being carried away by the waves of material nature. Sometimes you are on the surface, sometimes you are being drowned. In this way your eternal life is being spoiled. If you simply catch hold of Krsna and take shelter of His lotus feet, you will once again get free from all the miserable material conditions.
In this verse the words suhrt (well-wisher) and tava (your) are very significant. Ones so-called husband, relative, son, father or whatever cannot actually be a well-wisher. The only actual well-wisher is Krsna Himself, as Krsna confirms in Bhagavad-gita (5.29): suhrdam sarva-bhutanam. Society, friendship, love and well-wishers are all simply results of being packed in different bodies. One should know this well and try to get out of this bodily encagement into which one is thrown birth after birth. One should take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, and return home, back to Godhead.

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