SB 1.15.50 (1965)
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT No. 50
- Droupadi tada ajnaya patinam anapekshatam
- Vasudeve bhagawati hi ekanta matir apa tam.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS
Droupadi—the wife of the Pandavas, Tada—at that time, Ajnaya—knowing Lord Krishna fully well, Patinam—of the husbands, Anapekshatam—who did not care for her, Vasudeva—unto Lord Vasudeva Krishna, Bhagawati—the Personality of Godhead, Hi—exactly, Ekanta—absolutely, Moti—concentration, Apa—got, Tam—Him the Lord.
TRANSLATION
Droupadi also saw it that her husbands without caring for her were leaving home and she knew well about Lord Vasudeva Krishna the Personality of Godhead; she and Subhadra also became absorbed in thoughts of Krishna and got the same result like their husbands.
PURPORT
One has to fly areoplane in the outer space and nobody can take care of other planes. Everyone has to take care of his own plane and if there is any danger no other plane can help in that condition. Similarly at the end of life when one has to go back to home, go back to Godhead everyone has to take care of himself without any help rendered to the other. The help, is however, offered on the ground before flying in the space. Similarly the spiritual master, the father, the mother, the relatives, the husband etc all can render help during the life time how one can cross over the ocean of birth and death, but while crossing the sea one has to take care of himself and utilise the instructions formerly received. Droupadi had five husbands and nobody asked Droupadi to come with him or them but Droupadi had to take care of herself without waiting for the great husbands Pandavas. And because she was already trained up she, at once took up to the concentration of the Lotus feet of Lord Vasudeva Krishna the Personality of Godhead, and the wives also got the same result as their husbands in the same manner that is to say without any change of the body they reached the destination of back to home back to Godhead. Srila Viswanath Chakravarty Thakur suggests that both Droupadi and Subhadra, although her name is not mentioned herein, got the same result. None of them had the necessity of quitting the body.