Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 9.11.16

tac chrutva bhagavan ramo

rundhann api dhiya sucah

smarams tasya gunams tams tan

nasaknod roddhum isvarah

SYNONYMS

tat -- this (the news of Sitadevi's entering the earth); srutva -- hearing; bhagavan -- the Supreme Personality of Godhead; ramah -- Lord Ramacandra; rundhan -- trying to reject; api -- although; dhiya -- by intelligence; sucah -- grief; smaran -- remembering; tasyah -- of her; gunan -- qualities; tan tan -- under different circumstances; na -- not; asaknot -- was able; roddhum -- to check; isvarah -- although the supreme controller.

TRANSLATION

After hearing the news of mother Sita's entering the earth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead was certainly aggrieved. Although He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, upon remembering the exalted qualities of mother Sita, He could not check His grief in transcendental love.

PURPORT

Lord Ramacandra's grief at the news of Sitadevi's entering the earth is not to be considered material. In the spiritual world also there are feelings of separation, but such feelings are considered spiritual bliss. Grief in separation exists even in the Absolute, but such feelings of separation in the spiritual world are transcendentally blissful. Such feelings are a sign of tasya prema-vasyatva-svabhava, being under the influence of hladini-sakti and being controlled by love. In the material world such feelings of separation are only a perverted reflection.

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