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ŚB 10.69.36

Devanagari

अव्यक्तलिङ्गं प्रकृतिष्वन्त:पुरगृहादिषु ।
क्व‍‍चिच्चरन्तं योगेशं तत्तद्भ‍ावबुभुत्सया ॥ ३६ ॥

Text

avyakta-lingaṁ prakṛtiṣv
antaḥ-pura-gṛhādiṣu
kvacic carantaṁ yogeśaṁ
tat-tad-bhāva-bubhutsayā

Synonyms

avyakta — hidden; liṅgam — His identity; prakṛtiṣu — among His ministers; antaḥ-pura — of the royal precincts; gṛha-ādiṣu — among the residences, etc.; kvacit — somewhere; carantam — moving about; yoga-īśam — the Lord of mystic power; tat-tat — of each of them; bhāva — the mentalities; bubhutsayā — with the desire to know.

Translation

Somewhere Kṛṣṇa, the Lord of mystic power, was moving about in disguise among the homes of ministers and other citizens in order to understand what each of them was thinking.

Purport

Although Lord Kṛṣṇa is all-knowing, while executing His pastimes as a typical monarch He sometimes traveled about incognito to acquire necessary information about His kingdom.