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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 3.4.6
SYNONYMS
adraksham -- I saw; ekam -- alone; asinam -- sitting; vicinvan -- deeply thinking; dayitam -- patron; patim -- master; sri-niketam -- the shelter of the goddess of fortune; sarasvatyam -- on the bank of the Sarasvati; krita-ketam -- taking shelter; aketanam -- being situated without a shelter.
TRANSLATION
Thus following, I saw my patron and master [Lord Sri Krishna] sitting alone and deeply thinking, taking shelter on the bank of the River Sarasvati although He is the shelter of the goddess of fortune.
PURPORT
Those who are in the renounced order of life often take shelter underneath a tree. The Lord was found by Uddhava in that condition of taking shelter as do persons who have no shelter. Because He is the proprietor of everything, everywhere is His shelter, and everywhere is under His shelter. The entire material and spiritual cosmic manifestation is sustained by Him, and therefore He is the shelter of everything. So there was nothing astonishing in His taking shelter in the way of the unsheltered who are in the renounced order of life.
Copyright (c) The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness