Shloka 47
The Solar Eclipse at Samanta-pañcaka and the Great Reunion of Yādavas, Pāṇḍavas, and Vraja
श्रीशुक उवाच अध्यात्मशिक्षया गोप्य एवं कृष्णेन शिक्षिता: । तदनुस्मरणध्वस्तजीवकोशास्तमध्यगन् ॥ ४७ ॥
śrī-śuka uvāca adhyātma-śikṣayā gopya evaṁ kṛṣṇena śikṣitāḥ tad-anusmaraṇa-dhvasta- jīva-kośās tam adhyagan
Śukadeva sprach: So wurden die gopīs von Kṛṣṇa in geistiger Wahrheit unterwiesen; durch unablässiges Gedenken an Ihn verging jede Spur falschen Ichs, und in immer tieferer Versenkung erkannten sie Ihn vollkommen.
Śrīla Prabhupāda renders this passage as follows in Kṛṣṇa: “The gopīs, having been instructed by Kṛṣṇa in this philosophy of simultaneous oneness and difference, remained always in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and thus became liberated from all material contamination. The consciousness of the living entity who falsely presents himself as the enjoyer of the material world is called jīva-kośa, which means imprisonment by the false ego. Not only the gopīs but anyone who follows these instructions of Kṛṣṇa becomes immediately freed from the jīva-kośa imprisonment. A person in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness is always liberated from false egoism; he utilizes everything for Kṛṣṇa’s service and is not at any time separated from Kṛṣṇa.”
FAQs
This verse states that by constantly remembering Kṛṣṇa, the gopīs destroyed the coverings of conditioned life (jīva-kośa) and attained Him—showing smaraṇa-bhakti as a direct path to realization.
Śuka explains that Kṛṣṇa gave them inner spiritual instruction, and that their realization culminated not merely in emotion but in transformative remembrance that removed bondage and led to attainment of Kṛṣṇa.
Practice steady remembrance of Kṛṣṇa—through japa, kīrtana, hearing Bhāgavatam, and mindful recollection—so that worldly identifications weaken and devotion becomes the guiding consciousness.