Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.47.61

āsām aho carana-renu-jushām aham syām

vrindāvane kim api gulma-lataushadhīnām

yā dustyajam sva-janam ārya-patham ca hitvā

bhejur mukunda-padavīm śrutibhir vimrigyām

SYNONYMS

āsam — of the gopīs; aho — oh; carana-renu — the dust of the lotus feet; jushām — devoted to; aham syām — let me become; vrindāvane — in Vrindāvana; kim api — any one; gulma-latā-oshadhīnām — among bushes, creepers and herbs; yā — they who; dustyajam — very difficult to give up; sva-janam — family members; ārya-patham — the path of chastity; ca — and; hitvā — giving up; bhejuh — worshiped; mukunda-padavīm — the lotus feet of Mukunda, Krishna; śrutibhih — by the Vedas; vimrigyām — to be searched for.

TRANSLATION

The gopīs of Vrindāvana have given up the association of their husbands, sons and other family members, who are very difficult to give up, and they have forsaken the path of chastity to take shelter of the lotus feet of Mukunda, Krishna, which one should search for by Vedic knowledge. Oh, let me be fortunate enough to be one of the bushes, creepers or herbs in Vrindāvana, because the gopīs trample them and bless them with the dust of their lotus feet.

PURPORT

The word meanings and translation for this verse are taken from Śrīla Prabhupāda's English rendering of Caitanya-caritāmrita (Antya 7.47).

Śrī Uddhava here shows the perfect Vaishnava attitude of humility. He does not pray to be equal to the gopīs in their exalted stage of love, but rather to take birth as a bush or creeper in Vrindāvana so that when they walk upon him he will get the dust of their feet and thus be blessed. The shy gopīs would never agree to give such blessings to a great personality like Uddhava; therefore he cleverly sought to get such mercy by taking birth as a plant in Vrindāvana.

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