SB 10.29.36

“Why do you find fault with me though I am faultless? What can I do if you are agitated by seeing my natural beauty? If you do not have energy to perform household duties, it is better that you stay in your houses.” They reply with this verse. When our inconceivable good fortune appeared, (yarhi) in some rare place (kvacit), and we became joyful by indications of your love, we touched your feet. This verse recalls a previous verse: pūrṇāḥ pulindya urugāya-padābja-rāga śrī-kuṅkumena dayitā-stana-maṇḍitena tad-darśana-smara-rujas tṛṇa-rūṣitena limpantya ānana-kuceṣu jahus tad-ādhim The aborigine women of the Vṛndāvana area become disturbed when they see the grass marked with reddish kuṁkuma powder. Endowed with the color of Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet, this powder originally decorated the breasts of his beloved, and when the aborigine women smear it on their faces and breasts, they feel fully satisfied and give up all their anxiety. SB 10.21.17 It was well known among the gopīs that one of them had touched his feet. Though they had not associated with him, since he merely promised this when the young girls performed Kātyāyanī vows, as a group they imagined themselves identical with the single gopī who touched him. That is the reason they make this statement in this verse. Those feet give joy even to Lakṣmī. “Touching my feet must have been a dream you had. Otherwise you would be doing that continually even today.” You show yourself continually to the inhabitants of the forest (Pulinda women and the deer), but not to the people of Vraja. Therefore seeing you is rare for us gopīs. They thus criticize him for accepting Pulinda women and deer while rejecting qualified gopīs and Lakṣmī. From the time we touched you, we cannot stand in front of others: we take no pleasure in seeing others. Your touch is some magical spell. “O liars! You always stay among the cowherd people.” We cannot do that easily (añja). Only by force will we live there. The meaning according to recognizing his powers is as follows. Sometimes (kvacit) when you appeared in this world you gave joy to Lakṣmī and you have unswerving love for the inhabitants of Vraja, but we are unfortunate, since we have not touched you at any time. The rest of the verse has the same meaning as the previous explanation. In Śrīdhara Svāmī’s explanation, the gopīs show humility by comparing themselves to the inhabitants of the forest. Or the phrase araṇya-jana-priyasya can be a response to Kṛṣṇa’s statement in Verse 23 that all beings have affection for him: we are not like others with ordinary prema. We have come because of special, natural prema. The verse expresses indifference in the following way. “O friends, you have remembered well. I touched you when we were playing as children.” Fearing such a response the gopīs reply. When on the pretext of being friends with monkeys your feet went towards the women as a child, we did not touch your feet (tat prabhṛti), what to speak of touching your other limbs. Though we played with you as a child, we stayed within the sight of others such as mothers-in-laws. Otherwise they would be upset with us.