मां खेदयत्येतदजस्य जन्म- विडम्बनं यद्वसुदेवगेहे । व्रजे च वासोऽरिभयादिव स्वयं पुराद् व्यवात्सीद्यदनन्तवीर्य: ॥ १६ ॥
mam khedayaty etad ajasya janma- vidambanam yad vasudeva-gehe vraje ca vaso ’ri-bhayad iva svayam purad vyavatsid yad-ananta-viryah
- mam
- to me
- khedayati
- gives me distress
- etat
- this
- ajasya
- of the unborn
- janma
- birth
- vidambanam
- bewildering
- yat
- that
- vasudeva-gehe
- in the home of Vasudeva
- vraje
- in Vrndavana
- ca
- also
- vasah
- inhabitation
- ari
- enemy
- bhayat
- because of fear
- iva
- as if
- svayam
- Himself
- purat
- from Mathura Puri
- vyavatsit
- fled
- yat
- one who is
- ananta-viryah
- unlimitedly powerful.
When I think of Lord Krsna—how He was born in the prison house of Vasudeva although He is unborn, how He went away from His father’s protection to Vraja and lived there incognito out of fear of the enemy, and how, although unlimitedly powerful, He fled from Mathura in fear—all these bewildering incidents give me distress.