Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.22.8

bhagavāḿs tad abhipretya

kṛṣno yogeśvareśvaraḥ

vayasyair āvṛtas tatra

gatas tat-karma-siddhaye

SYNONYMS

bhagavān — the Supreme Personality of Godhead; tat — that; abhipretya — seeing; kṛṣṇaḥ — Lord Kṛṣṇa; yoga-īśvara-īśvaraḥ — the master of all masters of mystic power; vayasyaiḥ — by young companions; āvṛtaḥ — surrounded; tatra — there; gataḥ — went; tat — of those girls; karma — the ritualistic activities; siddhaye — for assuring the result.

TRANSLATION

Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead and master of all masters of mystic yoga, was aware of what the gopīs were doing, and thus He went there surrounded by His young companions to award the gopīs the perfection of their endeavor.

PURPORT

As the master of all masters of mystic power, Lord Kṛṣṇa could easily understand the desires of the gopīs, and He could also fulfill them. The gopīs, like all young girls from respectable families, considered the embarrassment of appearing naked before a young boy to be worse than giving up their lives. Yet Lord Kṛṣṇa made them come out of the water and bow down to Him. Although the bodily forms of the gopīs were all fully developed, and although Kṛṣṇa met them in a secluded place and brought them fully under His control, because the Lord is completely transcendental there was not a trace of material desire in His mind. Lord Kṛṣṇa is the ocean of transcendental bliss, and He wanted to share His bliss with the gopīs on the spiritual platform, completely free of ordinary lust.

Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura explains that the companions of Kṛṣṇa mentioned here were mere toddlers two or three years old. They were completely naked and were unaware of the difference between male and female. When Kṛṣṇa went out to herd the cows, they followed Him because they were so attached to Him that they could not bear to be without His association.

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