SB 10.52.37

I offer respects to Rukmiṇī’s words, in order to increase the perfection of my words. By her words he was immediately attracted though he is known as the attractor of everyone. She calls out, “O Acyuta! O bhuvana-sundara!” Though this expresses her feeling of lowness (dainya), the feeling can also be called longing (autsukya) since dainya is included in autsukya. Those qualities enter the mind but then destroy the suffering that arise in the body, what to speak of the suffering in the mind. Seeing your form produces attainment of all objects. Whatever has been attained and whatever has not been attained is now attained in seeing your beauty. Thus your beauty must be attained. Or, since she came from a good family, at first she felt shame at writing such a letter. To hide this she thus describes in general his qualities and beauty which attract everyone and through that expresses her irrepressible emotions. O most beautiful in the worlds, you have brilliant sweetness which attracts everyone in the material world and spiritual world up to the highest Vaikuṇṭha because of your nature and form. But still, that form is eternal and unfailing (acyuta), since you have a svarūpa non-different from the qualities arising from you splendid nature and beauty arising from your splendid forms. The qualities and form mentioned in this verse are mentioned separately since they are not his svarūpa. It should be inferred that his beauty and qualities appeared to Rukmiṇī from birth since previous impressions arose within her because she is Lakṣmī, though it is not mentioned. Hearing is particularly mentioned. But “hearing your qualities” in this verse means something else. Her mind naturally was absorbed in him (ā—viśati) on repeatedly hearing about him. Even without hearing about you my mind becomes absorbed in you because of previous impressions. And on hearing about your qualities, my mind becomes even more absorbed: I hear about your qualities which bestow all happiness. I hear about each one--one after the other. When the excellence of your beauty and limbs just enters my ears, I realize that beauty and those limbs, and my heart gives up all shyness and becomes completely absorbed (ā—viśati) in you, giving up all sense of inquiry. A girl of good family develops shame on thinking of a strange man. But in this case all shame is given up and the mind prays directly for you. This is the nature of your attractiveness for all people. What fault do I have? “You should control your mind.” O Acyuta! You never give up this quality of attracting everyone! Therefore it is suitable to reveal this to you. She describes his qualities headed by his ability to bestow happiness through his all-attractiveness. What can then be said of her attraction arising because of her devoted love? For those who simply hear or begin to hear about those qualities, after the qualities enter the holes of the ears, without effort, and inundate the place, all suffering disappears. This is the nature of your qualities. Hearing them, my mind becomes absorbed in you. Oh! He who is the shelter of infinite qualities is fit to be my shelter. With zeal she contemplates continually since it is not right that persons like her should have such attraction. Then she hopes that those qualities will quickly destroy the pains arising from such thoughts. The qualities arising from his nature have been described as splendid. Then she describes his beauty arising from his form. Those who have eyes attain all attainments—in his form they realize all sweetness. Without that realization, all beings are simply blind. Hearing your qualities continually, my mind is absorbed in you, desiring to realize you directly at all times. His body can be realized only by the eyes directly. His form is mentioned later to announce the excellence of her love, and that she will eventually have realization of his form through her eyes. Having described how his qualities destroy all suffering, she describes how his form gives attainment of all objects. In describing his qualities, but interrupting this with two exclamations (O Acyuta, O beauty of the world), she shows her lack of control. Calling her husband by these names is not a fault since they show his greatness.