Prabhupāda: All these queens are spiritual. All the gopīs, they are spiritual. Ānanda-cinmaya-rāsa-pratibhāvitābhis (Bs 5.37): and they are all made of ānanda-cinmaya-rāsa.
So He is showing the life of a gṛhastha: early rising, giving in charity to the Brāhmiṇs, and living daily duty. Still, He has got children, getting children married somehow or another. So gṛhastha life is not bad—never bad. Kṛṣṇa is gṛhastha. Our worshipable Lord is gṛhastha. He’s not sannyāsa. Is it sannyāsa? Why He should be? He is the supreme enjoyer, why He should be sannyāsa . . . sannyāsi? Enjoyer . . . sannyāsī is not enjoyer. But His description is enjoyer. Now how enjoyer can be sannyāsī? But He is still sannyāsī—renounced, everything. That is the point.
Śyāmasundara: Hmm.
Prabhupāda: He has got so many enjoyable wives, but still, just at time, renouncing everything. Enjoyer, at the same time renouncer. Renouncement is also opulence.
Śyāmasundara: Hmm.
- Prabhupāda Aiśvaryasya samagrasya vīryasya yaśasaḥ . . .jñāna-vairāgya.
(Viṣṇu Purāṇa 6.5.47)
He is enjoying, but He has no attachment for all these things—either for wife or children or this building or anything. At any moment He can give up. The gopīs, in a moment He gave up, went to Mathura. They began to cry and they wanted to stop the chariot, and so many things. He said, "Yes. Don't be agitated. I am coming, I am coming." Like that. And practically He never came back. He left at the age of 15, 16 years old, then He became engaged in fighting, being educated and marrying and becoming king and so on, so on. Once He came, Krsna and Balarama, once, when They had grandchildren. And once He came, Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma met the gopīs in Kurukṣetra, when they came—maybe I have mentioned already. When the cowherd boys went to see Him at Kurukṣetra battle, when they heard how "Kṛṣṇa, our friend, is fighting," they could see, "Oh?" (laughs) They were village cowherds men. They saw so many kings, so "We cannot enter."