हर्यात्मना हरेर्लोके पत्या श्रीरिव मोदते ॥२९॥
yÄ patiá¹ hari-bhÄvena
bhajet Å›rÄ«r iva tat-parÄ
hary-ÄtmanÄ harer loke
patyÄ Å›rÄ«r iva modate
yÄ - any woman who; patim - her husband; hari-bhÄvena - mentally accepting him as equal to Hari, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; bhajet - worships or renders service to; Å›rīḥ iva - exactly like the goddess of fortune; tat-parÄ - being devoted; hari-ÄtmanÄ - completely absorbed in thoughts of Hari; hareḥ loke - in the spiritual world, the Vaikuṇá¹ha planets; patyÄ - with her husband; Å›rīḥ iva - exactly like the goddess of fortune; modate - enjoys spiritual, eternal life.
The woman who engages in the service of her husband, following strictly in the footsteps of the goddess of fortune, surely returns home, back to Godhead, with her devotee husband, and lives very happily in the Vaikuṇá¹ha planets.
The faithfulness of the goddess of fortune is the ideal for a chaste woman. The Brahma-saá¹hitÄ (5.29) says, laká¹£mÄ«-sahasra-Å›ata-sambhrama-sevyamÄnam. In the Vaikuṇá¹ha planets, Lord Viṣṇu is worshiped by many, many thousands of goddesses of fortune, and in Goloka Vá¹›ndÄvana, Lord Kṛṣṇa is worshiped by many, many thousands of gopÄ«s, all of whom are goddesses of fortune. A woman should serve her husband as faithfully as the goddess of fortune. A man should be an ideal servant of the Lord, and a woman should be an ideal wife like the goddess of fortune. Then both husband and wife will be so faithful and strong that by acting together they will return home, back to Godhead, without a doubt. In this regard, ÅšrÄ«la MadhvÄcÄrya gives this opinion:
harir asmin sthita iti
strīṇÄá¹ bhartari bhÄvanÄ
Å›iá¹£yÄṇÄá¹ ca gurau nityaá¹
śūdrÄṇÄá¹ brÄhmaṇÄdiá¹£u
bhá¹›tyÄnÄá¹ svÄmini tathÄ
hari-bhÄva udÄ«ritaḥ
A woman should think of her husband as the Supreme Lord. Similarly, a disciple should think of the spiritual master as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, a śūdra should think of a brÄhmaṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and a servant should think of his master as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In this way, all of them will automatically become devotees of the Lord. In other words, by thinking this way, all of them will become Kṛṣṇa conscious.
