Devanagari
के वयं नामरूपाभ्यां यदुभि: सह पाण्डवा: ।
भवतोऽदर्शनं यर्हि हृषीकाणामिवेशितु: ॥ ३८ ॥
Verse text
ke vayaṁ nāma-rūpābhyāṁ
yadubhiḥ saha pāṇḍavāḥ
bhavato ’darśanaṁ yarhi
hṛṣīkāṇām iveśituḥ
Synonyms
ke
—
who are
;
vayam
—
we
;
nāma
—
rūpābhyām — without fame and ability
;
yadubhiḥ
—
with the Yadus
;
saha
—
along with
;
pāṇḍavāḥ
—
and the Pāṇḍavas
;
bhavataḥ
—
Your
;
adarśanam
—
absence
;
yarhi
—
as if
;
hṛṣīkāṇām
—
of the senses
;
iva
—
like
;
īśituḥ
—
of the living being .
Translation
As the name and fame of a particular body is finished with the disappearance of the living spirit, similarly if You do not look upon us, all our fame and activities, along with the Pāṇḍavas and Yadus, will end at once.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Without your presence who are we, the Pāṇḍavas along with the Yadus with their fame and strength? We are like the senses without the jīva.
Purport
Kuntīdevī is quite aware that the existence of the Pāṇḍavas is due to Śrī Kṛṣṇa only. The Pāṇḍavas are undoubtedly well established in name and fame and are guided by the great King Yudhiṣṭhira, who is morality personified, and the Yadus are undoubtedly great allies, but without the guidance of Lord Kṛṣṇa all of them are nonentities, as much as the senses of the body are useless without the guidance of consciousness. No one should be proud of his prestige, power and fame without being guided by the favor of the Supreme Lord. The living beings are always dependent, and the ultimate dependable object is the Lord Himself. We may, therefore, invent by our advancement of material knowledge all sorts of counteracting material resources, but without being guided by the Lord all such inventions end in fiasco, however strong and stout the reactionary elements may be.
Commentary (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
“But Bhīma and Arjuna, your sons, are very powerful. The king is dharma personified and the Yādavas are your friends. You have no worries.”
Who are we Pāṇḍavas with the Yadus having fame (nāma) and ability (rūpa) without your presence? Similarly, without the presence of the jīva the senses have no significance or power.