śrī-bādarāyaṇir uvāca
karhicit sukham āsīnaḿ
sva-talpa-sthaḿ jagad-gurum
patiḿ paryacarad bhaiṣmī
vyajanena sakhī-janaiḥ
sri-badarayanih -- Sukadeva Gosvami, the son of Badarayana Vedavyasa; uvaca -- said; karhicit -- on one occasion; sukham -- comfortably; asinam -- sitting; sva -- on her; talpa -- bed; stham -- situated; jagat -- of the universe; gurum -- the spiritual master; patim -- her husband; paryacarat -- served; bhaishmi -- Rukmini; vyajanena -- by fanning; sakhi-janaih -- together with her female companions.
Sri Badarayani said: Once, in the company of her maidservants, Queen Rukmini was personally serving her husband, the spiritual master of the universe, by fanning Him as He relaxed on her bed.
Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti poetically notes that in this chapter Rukminidevi is like fragrant camphor crushed on the grinding stone of Lord Krishna's speech. In other words, the lovely, chaste qualities of Rukmini will become manifest as a result of Lord Krishna's apparently insensitive words, just as camphor's fragrance becomes manifest when granules of camphor are crushed by a grinding stone. The acarya further points out that Rukmini is personally serving the Lord because He is jagad-gurum, the spiritual master of the universe, and patim, her husband.
