When Krishna consciousness is central, everything becomes beautiful and sinless; without it, all becomes vacant darkness.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.8.39 — May 1, 1973, Los Angeles 730501SB-LOS ANGELES [33:34 Minutes] SB-01.08.39_730501SB-LOS ANGELES Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [leads chanting of verse] [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] neyaṁ śobhiṣyate tatra yathedānīṁ gadādhara tvat-padair aṅkitā bhāti sva-lakṣaṇa-vilakṣitaiḥ [SB 1.8.39] [break]
Prabhupāda: Word meaning. Pradyumna: na—not; iyam—this land of our kingdom; śobhiṣyate—will appear as beautiful; tatra—then; yathā—as it is now; idānīm—now; gadādhara—O Kṛṣṇa; tvat—Your; padaiḥ—by the feet; aṅkitā—marked; bhāti—is dazzling; sva-lakṣaṇa—Your own marks; vilakṣitaiḥ—by the impressions. [03:12] Translation: "O Gadādhara [Kṛṣṇa], our kingdom is now being marked by the impressions of Your feet, and therefore it appears beautiful. But when You leave, it will no longer be so." Prabhupāda: So in the Cāṇakya śloka there is a very nice verse: śarvarī-bhūṣaṇaṁ candra pṛthivī-bhūṣaṇaṁ rājā nārīṇāṁ bhūṣaṇaṁ patiḥ vidyā sarvasya bhūṣaṇam Everything looks beautiful when one is related with something in very intimate relation.
Just like at night the sky becomes beautiful when there is moon. Everyone can understand. The sky becomes... The sky is there, vast sky, at night.
But on the full-moon night, when the moon is there and the stars are there brilliantly, it looks very nice. Similarly, the state looks very nice if there is good government, good king, good president. Then everyone is happy, everything going on nicely. Similarly, nārīṇāṁ bhūṣaṇaṁ patiḥ. A girl looks very beautiful...
Girls are naturally beautiful. But she looks very beautiful when she has got a husband. Nārīṇāṁ bhūṣaṇaṁ patiḥ. And vidyā sarvasya bhūṣaṇam: but if a person, however ugly he may be, if he's learned scholar, that is his beauty.
Similarly, there are kokilānāṁ svaro rūpaṁ nārī-rūpaṁ pati-vratam. These are there. Similarly, everything will look very beautiful when Kṛṣṇa is there. When Kṛṣṇa is there. So Kuntīdevī is thinking that "When Kṛṣṇa will be absent, our this kingdom will not be beautiful.
So long Kṛṣṇa is with us, we Pāṇḍavas, our kingdom, Hastināpura, everything beautiful." It is said, tvat-padair aṅkitā bhāti. "Kṛṣṇa, You are now in our kingdom. You are walking. So by the impression of Your footprints, everything is beautiful.