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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.30.29
SYNONYMS
dhanyāh — sanctified; aho — ah; amī — these; ālyah — O gopīs; govinda — of Govinda; ańghri-abja — of the lotuslike feet; renavah — the particles of dust; yān — which; brahmā — Lord Brahmā; īśau — and Lord Śiva; ramā devī — Ramādevī, the wife of Lord Vishnu; dadhuh — take; mūrdhni — on their heads; agha — of their sinful reactions; nuttaye — for the dispelling.
TRANSLATION
O girls! The dust of Govinda's lotus feet is so sacred that even Brahmā, Śiva and the goddess Ramā take that dust upon their heads to dispel sinful reactions.
PURPORT
According to Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī, who quotes from śāstra, each day in the late afternoon, as Krishna returned from the cow pastures with His cowherd boyfriends, great demigods like Brahmā and Śiva would come down from heaven and take the dust of His feet.
Great personalities like the goddess Ramā (the wife of Vishnu), Śiva and Brahmā are not at all sinful. But in the ecstasy of pure Krishna consciousness they feel themselves fallen and impure. Thus, desiring to purify themselves, they blissfully take the dust of the Lord's lotus feet on their heads.
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