Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.28.18
लोकान्तरं गतवति मय्यनाथा कुटुम्बिनी ।
वर्तिष्यते कथं त्वेषा बालकाननुशोचती ॥ १८ ॥
lokāntaraṁ gatavati
[lokaantaram gatavati]
mayy anāthā kuṭumbinī
[mayy anaathaa kutumbinee]
vartiṣyate kathaṁ tv eṣā
[vartishyate katham tv eshaa]
bālakān anuśocatī
[baalakaan anushochatee]
Word-for-word
loka-antaram
—
into a different life
gatavati mayi
—
when I am gone
anāthā
—
bereft of husband
kuṭumbinī
—
surrounded by all family members
vartiṣyate
—
will exist
katham
—
how
tu
—
then
eṣā
—
this woman
bālakān
—
children
anuśocatī
—
lamenting about.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
lokāntaraṁ gatavati
loka-antaram
into a different life
gatavati mayi
when I am gone
mayy anāthā kuṭumbinī
anāthā
bereft of husband
kuṭumbinī
surrounded by all family members
vartiṣyate kathaṁ tv eṣā
vartiṣyate
will exist
katham
how
tu
then
eṣā
this woman
bālakān anuśocatī
bālakān
children
anuśocatī
lamenting about.
King Purañjana was anxiously thinking, “Alas, my wife is encumbered by so many children. When I pass from this body, how will she be able to maintain all these family members? Alas, she will be greatly harassed by thoughts of family maintenance.”
Purport
All these thoughts of one’s wife indicate that the King was overly engrossed with the thoughts of woman. Generally a chaste woman becomes a very obedient wife. This causes a husband to become attached to his wife, and consequently he thinks of his wife very much at the time of death. This is a very dangerous situation, as is evident from the life of King Purañjana. If one thinks of his wife instead of Kṛṣṇa at the time of death, he will certainly not return home, back to Godhead, but will be forced to accept the body of a woman and thus begin another chapter of material existence.
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura
Gauḍīya
Translation
When I go to another world, how will my wife, without a husband, lamenting for her children, continue to exist?
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Personal Guidance
Alas, how will my wife maintain all these family members after I'm gone? Dying worry centers on survivors' welfare; it's noble in flavor and bondage-producing in effect.
Reflection Questions
- Whose welfare worry consumes me, and is the worry producing actual provision?
- Where could trust in higher arrangement replace worry?
My note
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