SB 10.70.3 — FolioCorpus

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.70.3

मुहूर्तं तं तु वैदर्भी नामृष्यदतिशोभनम् । परिरम्भणविश्लेषात् प्रियबाह्वन्तरं गता ॥ ३ ॥

muhūrtaṁ taṁ tu vaidarbhī

[muhoortam tam tu vaidarbhee]

nāmṛṣyad ati-śobhanam

[naamrishyad ati-shobhanam]

parirambhaṇa-viśleṣāt

[parirambhana-vishleshaat]

priya-bāhv-antaraṁ gatā

[priya-baahv-antaram gataa]

Word-for-word

muhūrtam — time of the day tam — that tu — but vaidarbhī — Queen Rukmiṇī na amṛṣyat — did not like ati — very śobhanam — auspicious parirambhaṇa — of His embrace viśleṣāt — because of the loss priya — of her beloved bāhu — the arms antaram — between gatā — situated .

Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)

muhūrtaṁ taṁ tu vaidarbhī

muhūrtam

time of the day

tam

that

but

vaidarbhī

Queen Rukmiṇī

nāmṛṣyad ati-śobhanam

na amṛṣyat

did not like

ati

very

śobhanam

auspicious

parirambhaṇa-viśleṣāt

parirambhaṇa

of His embrace

viśleṣāt

because of the loss

priya-bāhv-antaraṁ gatā

priya

of her beloved

bāhu

the arms

antaram

between

gatā

situated .

Important Words

vaidarbhī — the princess of Vidarbha (Rukmiṇī)
Rukmiṇī is Lakṣmī herself, the goddess of fortune who chose Kṛṣṇa over Nārāyaṇa's calmer Vaikuṇṭha. In Gauḍīya reading her mood verges on mādhurya — possessive love that grudges every moment of separation.
parirambhaṇa — embrace
The compound (pari + rambh-) literally means 'encircling fully.' For the mahiṣīs this is not bodily contact but the encompassing shelter of Bhagavān's love — losing the embrace is losing the universe.
ati-śobhanam — most auspicious
The very hour the śāstras call most auspicious (brāhma-muhūrta) Rukmiṇī cannot bear. Bhakti inverts the calendar: a moment's value is measured only by proximity to Kṛṣṇa, not by its astrological merit.
viśleṣāt — because of separation, loss
Vi-śleṣa is the technical term for the loosening of an embrace, the unsticking of two who were joined. Gauḍīya rasa-śāstra treats every such micro-separation as preparing the soul to taste vipralambha-rasa more deeply.

Lying in her beloved’s arms, Queen Vaidarbhī did not like this most auspicious hour, for it meant she would lose His embrace.

Purport

Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī explains that the reaction of Queen Vaidarbhī, Rukmiṇī-devī, shows the attitude of all the queens.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

Gauḍīya Ācāryas

Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya

Translation

Lying in her beloved's arms, Queen Vaidarbhī did not like this most auspicious hour, for it meant she would lose His embrace.

Commentary

Because of losing the embrace of her husband, Rukmini did not consider the auspicious brahma muhurta to be auspicious. Rukmini represents all the queens, who all felt the same.

Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya

Commentary

This time was an obstacle (viśleṣāt) to Kṛṣṇa embracing her.

Related values & verses

Related values

Vairagya (Detachment / Dispassion)Discriminative WisdomAbhaya (Fearlessness)Seva (Service / Selfless Action)Samata (Equanimity / Even-mindedness)Anahankarah (Freedom from False Ego)

Personal Guidance

Rukmiṇī, lying in Kṛṣṇa's arms, did not like the auspicious hour because it ended their embrace. The most spiritually beneficial moment can feel like loss when measured by personal preference; bhakti also has its tender ache.

Reflection Questions

Where do auspicious turns in my life feel like loss because they end something dear?
How do I honor both the goodness of the change and the ache of the parting?

Analogy

Rukmiṇī clings to the last second of His embrace the way a thirsty traveler clings to the last drop in a cup. Every auspicious hour announced by the world is, for the devotee, only one more partition between herself and her beloved.

Stories

Rukmiṇī's elopement letter

In SB 10.52-53, Princess Rukmiṇī wrote to Kṛṣṇa a letter — bring me, take me, before my father gives me to Śiśupāla. Her whole life was a single yearning that He never leave her again.

This verse is the inner shape of that letter still beating in her chest years later. Even with His arms around her, she dreads the moment His arms will go.

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