apy avadhyāyathāsmān svid
akṛta-jñāviśańkayā
nūnaḿ bhūtāni bhagavān
yunakti viyunakti ca
api -- also; avadhyayatha -- you hold in contempt; asman -- Us; svit -- perhaps; akrita-jna -- as being ungrateful; avisankaya -- with the suspicion; nunam -- indeed; bhutani -- living beings; bhagavan -- the Supreme Lord; yunakti -- joins; viyunakti -- separates; ca -- and.
Do you perhaps think I'm ungrateful and thus hold Me in contempt? After all, it is the Supreme Lord who brings living beings together and then separates them.
Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti reveals the gopis' thoughts: "We are not like You, who, with Your heart shattered by remembering us day and night, gave up all sense enjoyment in Your distress of separation. Rather, we have not remembered You at all; in fact, we have been quite happy without You." In response, Krishna here asks whether they resent His ingratitude.
