Uddhava understood that Krishna was going to withdraw the Yadu dynasty, and thus he begged the Lord to take him along to the Lord's abode. He had no desire to merge into Krishna's impersonal effulgence; instead he wanted to go to the Lord's spiritual abode and continue associating with Krishna as His dearmost friend. Krishna is the Personality of Godhead and can do whatever He likes, but the devotee begs the Lord for the chance to serve Him. Although the Lord manifests within the material world His various abodes, such as Vrindavana, Dvaraka and Mathura, and although these are certainly nondifferent from their counterparts in the spiritual world, the most advanced devotees, overwhelmed with desire to personally serve the Lord, are very eager to go to the Lord's original spiritual planet. As stated by Lord Kapila in the Third Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam, the pure devotees have no desire for liberation. Because of their eagerness to render service, they urge the Lord to appear before them. The six Gosvamis, due to their intense eagerness to serve Radha and Krishna, urgently searched after Them, calling out Their names in the forests of Vrindavana. Similarly, Uddhava is urging the Lord to take him to His own abode so that Uddhava's personal service to the Lord's lotus feet will not be interrupted even for a moment.

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura has pointed out that immature conditioned souls think that Lord Krishna is an ordinary jiva soul engaged in material activities and was thus unable to protect His own dynasty from the curse of the brahmanas. Uddhava's statement corrects such unfortunate persons. It is Lord Krishna Himself who awarded pious living entities birth in brahminical families, and then Lord Krishna further awarded them the potency to curse His dynasty. And finally, Lord Krishna personally kept the curse intact, although He was capable of neutralizing it. Therefore in the beginning, middle and end, directly and indirectly, in the past, present and future, Lord Krishna is the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and He is completely transcendental to even the slightest touch of material illusion or impotence.