SB 10.13.41 · Srimad-Bhagavatam

Devanagari

यावन्तो गोकुले बाला: सवत्सा: सर्व एव हि । मायाशये शयाना मे नाद्यापि पुनरुत्थिता: ॥ ४१ ॥

Verse text

yāvanto gokule bālāḥ sa-vatsāḥ sarva eva hi māyāśaye śayānā me nādyāpi punar utthitāḥ

Synonyms

yāvantaḥ — whatsoever, as many as ; gokule — in Gokula ; bālāḥ — boys ; sa — vatsāḥ — along with their calves ; sarve — all ; eva — indeed ; hi — because ; māyā — āśaye — on the bed of māyā ; śayānāḥ — are sleeping ; me — my ; na — not ; adya — today ; api — even ; punaḥ — again ; utthitāḥ — have risen .

Translation

Lord Brahmā thought: Whatever boys and calves there were in Gokula, I have kept them sleeping on the bed of my mystic potency, and to this very day they have not yet risen again.

Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

Lord Brahmā thought: Whatever boys and calves there were in Gokula, I have kept them sleeping on the bed of my mystic potency, and to this very day they have not yet risen again. KB 10.13.41 Brahmā began to think, “All the boys and calves were taken away by me, and I know they are still sleeping.

Purport

For one year Lord Brahmā kept the calves and boys lying down in a cave by his mystic power. Therefore when Brahmā saw Lord Kṛṣṇa still playing with all the cows and calves, he began trying to reason about what was happening. “What is this?” he thought. “Maybe I took those calves and cowherd boys away but now they have been taken from that cave. Is this what has happened? Has Kṛṣṇa brought them back here?” Then, however, Lord Brahmā saw that the calves and boys he had taken were still in the same mystic māyā into which he had put them. Thus he concluded that the calves and cowherd boys now playing with Kṛṣṇa were different from the ones in the cave. He could understand that although the original calves and boys were still in the cave where he had put them, Kṛṣṇa had expanded Himself and so the present demonstration of calves and boys consisted of expansions of Kṛṣṇa. They had the same features, the same mentality and the same intentions, but they were all Kṛṣṇa.

Purport (Jiva Goswami)

Ail the boys and calves who were in Gokula have been put to sleep on my bed of māyā.