visṛja śirasi pādaḿ vedmy ahaḿ cātu-kārair

anunaya-viduṣas te 'bhyetya dautyair mukundāt

sva-kṛta iha viṣṛṣṭāpatya-paty-anya-lokā

vyasṛjad akṛta-cetāḥ kiḿ nu sandheyam asmin

visrija -- let go of; sirasi -- held on your head; padam -- My foot; vedmi -- know; aham -- I; catu-karaih -- with flattering words; anunaya -- in the art of conciliation; vidushah -- who are expert; te -- of you; abhyetya -- having learned; dautyaih -- by acting as a messenger; mukundat -- from Krishna; sva -- for His own; krite -- sake; iha -- in this life; visrishta -- who have abandoned; apatya -- children; pati -- husbands; anya-lokah -- and everyone else; vyasrijat -- He abandoned; akrita-cetah -- ungrateful; kim nu -- why indeed; sandheyam -- should I make reconciliation; asmin -- with Him.


Texto

Keep your head off My feet! I know what you're doing. You expertly learned diplomacy from Mukunda, and now you come as His messenger with flattering words. But He abandoned those who for His sake alone gave up their children, husbands and all other relations. He's simply ungrateful. Why should I make up with Him now?

Significado

According to Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti, this verse illustrates the qualities of sanjalpa, as described by Srila Rupa Gosvami in the following verse of his Ujjvala-nilamani (14.190):

sollunthaya gahanaya

kayapy akshepa-mudraya

tasyakrita-jnatady-uktih

sanjalpah kathito budhaih

"The learned describe sanjalpa as that speech which decries with deep irony and insulting gestures the beloved's ungratefulness and so on." Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti points out that the word adi, "and so on," implies the perception in one's lover of hardheartedness, of an inimical attitude and of a complete lack of love.