Verse Text
duḥkhena, yathā śrī-daśame –
anyāś ca tad-anudhyāna-nivṛttāśeṣa-vṛttayaḥ |
nābhyajānan imaṁ lokam ātma-lokaṁ gatā iva ||60||
Translation
From distress, from the Tenth Canto: Other gopīs entirely stopped their sensory activities and became fixed in meditation on Kṛṣṇa. They lost all awareness of the external world, just like those who attain the platform of self-realization. SB 10.39.15
Purport (Jiva Goswami)
Anyāḥ refers to gopīs who were lamenting at the departure of Kṛṣṇa for Mathurā.
Giving up all sense activity by meditation on the Lord and losing all awareness of the external world indicate the absence of awareness of all other thoughts. Ātma-lokam gatā means “becoming absorbed in ātmā.” It was as if they had attained samādhi.
Purport (Nectar of Devotion)
There are also instances of pralaya in distress. One such example is described in the Tenth Canto, Thirty-ninth Chapter, verse 15, of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, wherein Śukadeva Gosvāmī tells King Parīkṣit, “My dear King, when the gopīs were missing Kṛṣṇa, they were so much absorbed in meditation upon Him that all of their senses stopped functioning, and they lost all bodily sense. It was as though they had become liberated from all material conditions.”