prabhura viraha-sarpa lakṣmīre damśila
viraha-sarpa-viá¹£e tÄá¹…ra paraloka haila
prabhura - of the Lord; viraha-sarpa - the separation snake; laká¹£mÄ«re - Laká¹£mÄ«devÄ«; damÅ›ila - bit; viraha-sarpa - of the separation snake; viá¹£e - by the poison; tÄá¹…ra - her; para-loka - next world; haila - it so happened.
The snake of separation bit Lakṣmīdevī, and its poison caused her death. Thus she passed to the next world. She went back home, back to Godhead.
As stated in the Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ (8.6), yaá¹ yaá¹ vÄpi smaran bhÄvaá¹ tyajaty ante kalevaram: one’s practice in thinking throughout his entire life determines the quality of his thoughts at death, and thus at death one obtains a suitable body. According to this principle, Laká¹£mÄ«devÄ«, the goddess of fortune from Vaikuṇá¹ha, who was absorbed in thought of the Lord in separation from Him, certainly went back home to Vaikuṇá¹haloka after death.
