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Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana: Book 10: Chapter 60: Verses 25-35
Seeing His beloved spouse, who had failed to grasp the deep subtlety of His humour, bound to Him with such a tie of affection, that merciful and glorious Lord Sri Krsna was moved with pity. Quickly stepping down from the couch and lifting her up, the four-armed Lord gathered up her locks and wiped her face with His lotus hand. Wiping her tearful eyes and breasts soiled with tears of grief and folding in His arms the virtuous lady, who was single-heartedly attached to Him, 0 king, the Lord, who is the resort of the righteous and knew how to console, comforted His distressed consort, who was confounded in mind by the severity of the joke and was undeserving of it. The glorious Lord said : 0 daughter of the King of Vidarbha, no, do not be angry with Me. I know you are devoted to Me. 1 behaved jestingly with you, 0 beautiful lady, only with Intent to hear your retort and to behold your countenance with the lips quivering due to resentment through love, with the corners of the eyes growing red while darting glances, and with the beautiful line of eyebrows knit together. 0 lady marked with fear and frown! to the householders engrossed in their household duties this indeed is the greatest gain that they pass a few hours in pastimes in the company of their beloved. Sri Suka went on : Rukmini (the daughter of the King of Vidarbha), 0 king, on being thus amply comforted by the Lord, realized His utterance to be a joke and gave up the fear of being abandoned by her Darling.
Gazing on the Lord's face with affectionate glances graced by a bashful smile, she spoke (thus) to the greatest among men, 0 scion of Bharata ! Rukmini said : Of course, it is as You said. 0 lotus-eyed Lord, that I am surely unlike You, the glorious one, possessed of infinite qualities. What comparison is there between You, the glorious Lord of the three principal deities (Brahma, Visnu and Siva) and established in Your own greatness, and myself, the primordial Nature comprised of the three Gunas and one whose feet are clutched by the ignorant ! True it is that You sleep in the ocean of the (devotee's) heart as if afraid of the three Gunas, 0 Lord of wide strides, who are pure Consciousness, the Self. You are ever at loggerheads with the wicked senses and even Your servants kick aside such a dark and gloomy thing as kingship.
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