न वै स आत्मात्मवतां सुहृत्तमः
सक्तस्त्रिलोक्यां भगवान् वासुदेवः ।
न स्त्रीकृतं कश्मलमश्नुवीत
न लक्ष्मणं चापि विहातुमर्हति ॥६॥

na vai sa ÄtmÄtmavatÄá¹ suhá¹›ttamaḥ
saktas tri-lokyÄá¹ bhagavÄn vÄsudevaḥ
na strī-kṛtaṠkaśmalam aśnuvīta
na laká¹£maṇaá¹ cÄpi vihÄtum arhati

 na - not; vai - indeed; saḥ - He; ÄtmÄ - the Supreme Soul; ÄtmavatÄm - of the self-realized souls; suhá¹›t-tamaḥ - the best friend; saktaḥ - attached; tri-lokyÄm - to anything within the three worlds; bhagavÄn - the Supreme Personality of Godhead; vÄsudevaḥ - the all-pervading Lord; na - not; strÄ«-ká¹›tam - obtained because of His wife; kaÅ›malam - sufferings of separation; aÅ›nuvÄ«ta - would obtain; na - not; laká¹£maṇam - His younger brother Laká¹£maṇa; ca - also; api - certainly; vihÄtum - to give up; arhati - be able.


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Since Lord ÅšrÄ« RÄmacandra is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, VÄsudeva, He is not attached to anything in this material world. He is the most beloved Supersoul of all self-realized souls, and He is their very intimate friend. He is full of all opulences. Therefore He could not possibly have suffered because of separation from His wife, nor could He have given up His wife and Laká¹£maṇa, His younger brother. To give up either would have been absolutely impossible.

Purport

In defining the Supreme Personality of Godhead, we say that He is full in all six opulences — wealth, fame, strength, influence, beauty and renunciation. He is called renounced because He is not attached to anything in this material world; He is specifically attached to the spiritual world and the living entities there. The affairs of the material world take place under the superintendence of DurgÄdevÄ« (sṛṣṭi-sthiti-pralaya-sÄdhana-Å›aktir ekÄ/ chÄyeva yasya bhuvanÄni bibharti durgÄ). Everything is going on under the strict rules and regulations of the material energy, represented by DurgÄ. Therefore the Lord is completely detached and need not give attention to the material world. SÄ«tÄdevÄ« belongs to the spiritual world. Similarly, Lord Laká¹£maṇa, RÄmacandra’s younger brother, is a manifestation of Saá¹…kará¹£aṇa, and Lord RÄmacandra Himself is VÄsudeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Since the Lord is always spiritually qualified, He is attached to servants who always render transcendental loving service unto Him. He is attached to the truth in life, not to brahminical qualities. Indeed, He is never attached to any material qualities. Although He is the Supersoul of all living entities, He is specifically manifest to those who are self-realized, and He is especially dear to the hearts of His transcendental devotees. Because Lord RÄmacandra descended to teach human society how dutiful a king should be, He apparently gave up the company of mother SÄ«tÄ and Laká¹£maṇa. Factually, however, He could not have given them up. One should therefore learn about the activities of Lord RÄmacandra from a self-realized soul. Then one can understand the transcendental activities of the Lord.