Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.11.32
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
Although due to feminine shyness there were many hindrances to embracing the dear husband, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the queens performed that act by seeing Him, by putting Him in the cores of their hearts, and by sending their sons to embrace Him. Still, the act remained unfinished, and tears rolled down their cheeks despite all endeavors to check them. One indirectly embraces the husband by sending the son to embrace him because the son is developed as part of the mother’s body. The embrace of the son is not exactly the embrace of husband and wife from the sexual point of view, but the embrace is satisfaction from the affectionate point of view. The embrace of the eyes is more effective in the conjugal relation, and thus according to Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī there is nothing wrong in such an exchange of feeling between husband and wife.
Kṛṣṇa entered each of the palaces of the queens simultaneously in many forms. When each saw him, they thought “Kṛṣṇa has come to me first.” This verse describes the reactions of the queens. Their mind became filled with great joy (sañjāta-mano-mahotsavāḥ). This is the initial desire. Then they rose from their seats (āsanaā) and from their hearts (āśayāt). Then they glanced at him from the sides of their eyes with bent heads (vrīḍita-locanānanāḥ). This means that they first gave up their seats to embrace their Lord, using the body. They then noticed an obstacle in the form of their bashfulness. They therefore gave up their minds, which were the dwelling place of that bashfulness, and embraced him with their souls. They completely overlooked their bodies and minds. Seeing their beloved, suddenly they fainted out of the bliss of prema arising from desire to touch him, because in fainting, as with deep sleep and loss of consciousness, there is no obstruction of the mind. Yājñavalkya speaks of vratas:
krīḍāṁ śarīra-saṁskāraṁ samājotsava-darśanam | hāsyaṁ para-gṛhe yānaṁ tyajet proṣita-bhartṛkā ||
In absence from her husband the wife should give up recreation, cleaning the body, seeing festivals in society, laughing and going to other houses.
They rose along with their vratas. Though it was improper for them to be seen by their husband in a state of vrata, because they could not suddenly give up those vratas, they rose along with their vratas. Seeing them in an unkempt state because of separation, he became more affectionate to them.
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- Whom am I 'embracing inwardly' first before any outward action?
- Where does inner embrace need to precede the outer to be real?
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Source: vedabase.io