नाहं तु सख्यो भजतोऽपि जन्तून् भजाम्यमीषामनुवृत्तिवृत्तये । यथाधनो लब्धधने विनष्टे तच्चिन्तयान्यन्निभृतो न वेद ॥ २० ॥
nāhaṁ tu sakhyo bhajato ’pi jantūn bhajāmy amīṣām anuvṛtti-vṛttaye yathādhano labdha-dhane vinaṣṭe tac-cintayānyan nibhṛto na veda
- na
- do not
- aham
- I
- tu
- on the other hand
- sakhyaḥ
- O friends
- bhajataḥ
- worshiping
- api
- even
- jantūn
- with living beings
- bhajāmi
- reciprocate
- amīṣām
- their
- anuvṛtti
- propensity (for pure love)
- vṛttaye
- in order to impel
- yathā
- just as
- adhanaḥ
- a poor man
- labdha
- having obtained
- dhane
- wealth
- vinaṣṭe
- and it being lost
- tat
- of that
- cintayā
- with anxious thought
- anyat
- anything else
- nibhṛtaḥ
- filled
- na veda
- does not know
But the reason I do not immediately reciprocate the affection of living beings even when they worship Me, O gopīs, is that I want to intensify their loving devotion. They then become like a poor man who has gained some wealth and then lost it, and who thus becomes so anxious about it that he can think of nothing else.