prabhu tÄá¹…ra pÅ«jÄ pÄÃ±Ä hÄsite lÄgilÄ
Å›loka paá¸i' tÄá¹…ra bhÄva aá¹…gÄ«kÄra kailÄ
prabhu - the Lord; tÄá¹…ra - her; pÅ«jÄ - worship; pÄÃ±Ä - receiving; hÄsite - to smile; lÄgilÄ - began; Å›loka paá¸i' - reciting one verse; tÄá¹…ra - her; bhÄva - emotion; aá¹…gÄ«kÄra kailÄ - accepted.
Being worshiped by Laká¹£mÄ«, the Lord began to smile. He recited a verse from ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam and thus accepted the emotion she expressed.
The verse quoted in this connection is the twenty-fifth verse of the twenty-second chapter, Tenth Canto, of ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam. The gopÄ«s worshiped goddess DurgÄ, or KÄtyÄyanÄ«, but their inner desire was to get Lord Kṛṣṇa as their husband. Kṛṣṇa, as ParamÄtmÄ, could realize the ardent desire of the gopÄ«s, and therefore He enjoyed the pastime of vastra-haraṇa. When the gopÄ«s went to bathe in the river YamunÄ, they left their garments on the land and dipped into the water completely naked. Taking this opportunity, Kṛṣṇa stole all their garments and sat down in the top of a tree with them, desiring to see the girls naked just to become their husband. The gopÄ«s desired to have Kṛṣṇa as their husband, and since it is only before her husband that a woman can be naked, to fulfill their desire Lord Kṛṣṇa accepted their prayers by this pastime of stealing their garments. When the gopÄ«s received their garments back from Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa recited this verse.
