Verse 1.6.90

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 1.6.90:

भवान् स्वयम् अगत्वा तु यं सन्देशं समर्थ्य माम् ।
प्राहिणोत् तेन ते सर्वे बभूवुर् निहता इव ॥ ९० ॥

bhavān svayam agatvā tu yaṃ sandeśaṃ samarthya mām |
prāhiṇot tena te sarve babhūvur nihatā iva || 90 ||

However, You did not personally go there but sent a message through me. Therefore, all those Vraja-vāsīs have nearly passed away.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

(By Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī himself including a deep purport of that commentary)

To contrast the vraja-vāsīs’ behavior with Your conduct by the confidential message that was sent with me, Uddhava, the verse beginning with bhavān has been quoted. “Being the supersoul I am present everywhere, you should see Me everywhere by your own eyes of knowledge….”—This was Your spoken message.

Just as it mentions in the Tenth Canto (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam or Bhāgavata Purāṇa 10.47.29):

भवतीनां वियोगो मे न हि सर्वात्मना क्वचित्
यथा भूतानि भूतेषुखं वाय्व्-अग्निर् जलं मही
तथाहं च मनः-प्राण-भूतेन्द्रिय-गुणाश्रयः

bhavatīnāṃ viyogo me na hi sarvātmanā kvacit
yathā bhūtāni bhūteṣukhaṃ vāyv-agnir jalaṃ mahī
tathāhaṃ ca manaḥ-prāṇa-bhūtendriya-guṇāśrayaḥ

“You can never be separate from Me; I am the Soul of everyone. Just as the five great elements of earth, water, fire, air and ether are present in all beings, I am the shelter of the mind, vital air, intelligence, senses and modes of nature.”

The purport is that you can never become disconnected from Me. How is that? I am the Soul of everyone, in otherwords, I am the constituent cause of everything; thus I am present as an attendant in such activities as the mind. There is an appropriate analogy: Just as the fundamental cause of all moving and non-moving living entities are within the five great elements (pañca mahā-bhūta), similarly I am also intimately connected as the shelter of the actions and responses of the mind. After receiving this message from You, all the vraja-vāsīs have become almost lifeless. Due to this message, their remaining hopes of Your coming back to Vraja has been shattered, and by this it indicates only their life-airs are left remaining.