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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Chant the verse. Say the Sanskrit slowly and carefully.
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  3. 3Find the meaning yourself. Before the translation, piece the meaning together from the words.
  4. 4Read the translation. Ask: what is the Lord teaching here, and how does it apply to my life?
  5. 5Read the purport slowly. Read it two or three times. Don't rush.
  6. 6Write down what touched you. Note the main points in your own notebook.
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Canto 10 · Chapter 82: Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma Meet the Inhabitants of Vṛndāvana
10.82.4110.82.43

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam · Text 10.82.42

Āśraya· The supreme shelter
Who is speaking and story frame
Speaking:Lord Kṛṣṇasince 10.82.41inside 2 frames: Sūta Gosvāmī → the sages at NaimiṣāraṇyaŚukadeva Gosvāmī → King Parīkṣit

अप्यवध्यायथास्मान् स्विदकृतज्ञाविशङ्कया ।

नूनं भूतानि भगवान् युनक्ति वियुनक्ति च ॥ ४२ ॥

apy avadhyāyathāsmān svid

akṛta-jñāviśaṅkayā

nūnaṁ bhūtāni bhagavān

yunakti viyunakti ca

Translation

Do you perhaps think I’m ungrateful and thus hold Me in contempt? After all, it is the Supreme Lord who brings living beings together and then separates them.

Read the purport on Vedabase.io

From Canto 10, chapter 14 onward, the translation and purports were completed by Śrīla Prabhupāda's disciples after his departure, and published by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Meeting and Separation Depend on the Lord

  1. 1

    Kṛṣṇa asked whether the gopīs considered Him ungrateful and therefore held Him in contempt.

  2. 2

    The purport reveals their pointed thoughts: they claimed not to have remembered Him and to have been happy without Him.

  3. 3

    Kṛṣṇa stated that the Supreme Lord brings living beings together and then separates them.

Key points from the purport
  • Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī reveals the gopīs’ thoughts: “We are not like You, who, with Your heart shattered by remembering us day and night, gave up all sense enjoyment in Your distress of separation.
  • Rather, we have not remembered You at all; in fact, we have been quite happy without You.”
  • In response, Kṛṣṇa here asks whether they resent His ingratitude.

The purport's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

Humility and separation → Friendship and reunion. The sweetness of relationship outweighs prestige.

Chapters 80–86 of Canto 10: Sudāmā and reunion with the residents of Vraja. An editorial reading of the story's mood, not the text itself. See the emotional arc

Further reading

Chapter 82: Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma Meet the Inhabitants of Vṛndāvana

From the chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

Then the Supreme Lord approached the young cowherd girls in a secluded place. He consoled them by pointing out that He is all-pervasive, being the source of all energies, and thus He implied that they could never be separated from Him.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in chapter 10.82
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Word for word

Learn the Sanskrit words of the verse.

  1. apialso
  2. avadhyāyathayou hold in contempt
  3. asmānUs
  4. svitperhaps
  5. akṛta-jñaas being ungrateful
  6. āviśaṅkayāwith the suspicion
  7. nūnamindeed
  8. bhūtāniliving beings
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Key ideas in this verse

The subject this verse serves and the themes it speaks of.

  • Āśraya · The summum bonum

    Who is the shelter of everything? · Subject 10 of 10

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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

How does remembering the Supreme Lord’s role change your view of meeting and separation?

Practice

Reflect briefly on one meeting or separation in your life in light of Kṛṣṇa’s statement.

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The story around it

The story this chapter belongs to.

Live this todayMeeting and Separation Depend on the LordThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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