ता नाविदन् मय्यनुषङ्गबद्ध- धिय: स्वमात्मानमदस्तथेदम् । यथा समाधौ मुनयोऽब्धितोये नद्य: प्रविष्टा इव नामरूपे ॥ १२ ॥
tā nāvidan mayy anuṣaṅga-baddha- dhiyaḥ svam ātmānam adas tathedam yathā samādhau munayo ’bdhi-toye nadyaḥ praviṣṭā iva nāma-rūpe
- tāḥ
- they (the gopīs)
- na
- not
- avidan
- were aware of
- mayi
- in Me
- anuṣaṅga
- by intimate contact
- baddha
- bound up
- dhiyaḥ
- their consciousness
- svam
- their own
- ātmānam
- body or self
- adaḥ
- something remote
- tathā
- thus considering
- idam
- this which is most near
- yathā
- just as
- samādhau
- in yoga-samādhi
- munayaḥ
- great sages
- abdhi
- of the ocean
- toye
- in the water
- nadyaḥ
- rivers
- praviṣṭāḥ
- having entered
- iva
- like
- nāma
- names
- rūpe
- and forms
My dear Uddhava, just as great sages in yoga trance merge into self-realization, like rivers merging into the ocean, and are thus not aware of material names and forms, similarly, the gopīs of Vṛndāvana were so completely attached to Me within their minds that they could not think of their own bodies, or of this world, or of their future lives. Their entire consciousness was simply bound up in Me.