Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.47.13

sakrid adhara-sudhām svām mohinīm pāyayitvā

sumanasa iva sadyas tatyaje 'smān bhavādrik

paricarati katham tat-pāda-padmam nu padmā

hy api bata hrita-cetā hy uttamah-śloka-jalpaih

SYNONYMS

sakrit — once; adhara — of the lips; sudhām — the nectar; svām — His own; mohinīm — bewildering; pāyayitvā — making drink; sumanasah — flowers; iva — like; sadyah — suddenly; tatyaje — He abandoned; asmān — us; bhavādrik — like you; paricarati — serves; katham — why; tat — His; pada-padmam — lotus feet; nu — I wonder; padmā — Lakshmī, the goddess of fortune; hi api — indeed, because; bata — alas; hrita — taken away; cetāh — her mind; hi — certainly; uttamah-śloka — of Krishna; jalpaih — by the false speech.

TRANSLATION

After making us drink the enchanting nectar of His lips only once, Krishna suddenly abandoned us, just as you might quickly abandon some flowers. How is it, then, that Goddess Padmā willingly serves His lotus feet? Alas! The answer must certainly be that her mind has been stolen away by His deceitful words.

PURPORT

In this verse Śrīmatī Rādhārānī continues to compare Śrī Krishna to the bumblebee, and in Her distress She states that the reason the goddess of fortune is constantly devoted to His lotus feet must be that she has been fooled by Krishna's promises. According to Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī, this statement of Śrīmatī Rādhārānī's illustrates parijalpa, as described in Śrī Ujjvala-nīlamani (14.184):

prabhor nidayatā-śāthya-

cāpalyādy-upapādanāt

sva-vicakshanatā-vyaktir

bhańgyā syāt parijalpitam

"Parijalpa is that speech which, through various devices, shows one's own cleverness by exposing the mercilessness, duplicity, unreliability and so on of one's Lord."

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