suṣeṇaś cārudeṣṇaś ca sāmbo jāmbavatī-sutaḥ anye ca kārṣṇi-pravarāḥ sa-putrā ṛṣabhādayaḥ
Synonyms
suṣeṇaḥ—similarly; cārudeṣṇaḥ—constant companions; ca—of Lord Sri Krishna such as; sāmbaḥ—of the name; jāmbavatī-sutaḥ—Uddhava and others; anye—of the name; ca—of the name; kārṣṇi—other headmen; pravarāḥ—all of them; Anye—others; sa-putrāḥ—liberated souls; ṛṣabha—the best men; ādayaḥ—if; Swasti—well doing; Aste—are; Sarve—all of them; Rama—Valarama; Krishna—Lord Krishna; Bhujashraya—under the protection of; Api—if also; Smaranti—do remember; Kushalam—welfare; Asmakam—about ourselves; Baddhasouhridah—bound up by eternal friendship.
Translation
Similarly are they all such as Uddhava and others, Nanda, Sunanda and other head men leaders of the liberated souls who are constant companions of the Lord as also protected by Lord Valaram and Krishna doing well in their respective functions ? Do they all who are all eternally bound up in friendship with us, do remember about our welfare ?
Purport
As already referred to herein before that Lord Krishna had married sixteen thousands one hundred and eight wives so each of them had ten sons. Therefore 16108X10=161080 sons. They were all grown up and therefore each of them had as many sons as their father and the whole aggregate was some thing near about one crores of family members of the Lord. It is just like the Lord. The Lord is the Father of all living beings who are countless by number and therefore if only a few of them is called for associating the Lord in his transcendental pastime as the Lord of Dwarka on this earth there is nothing to be astonished if the Lord maintained a visible family consisting of one crore of members. It is better to refrain ourselves from calculating the Lord's position as that of ours and it becomes a simple truth as soon as we understand at least a partial calculation of the Lord's transcendental position. King Yudhisthira while enquiring about the Lord's sons and grand sons at Dwarka, he mentioned only the chieftains amongst them otherwise it was impossible for him also to remember all the names of the Lord's family members.
The constant companions of Lord Krishna such as Uddhava etc all are liberated souls and they had descended along with Lord Krishna on this material world to fulfill the mission of the Lord. The Pandavas are also similarly liberated souls who descended along with Lord Krishna to serve Him in His transcendental pastimes on this earth. As stated in the Bhagwat Geeta (B.G. 4/5) the Lord and His eternal associates who are also liberated souls like the Lord come down on this earth at certain intervals. The Lord remembers them all but His associates although liberated souls do forget about them on account of their being Tatastha Sakti or marginal potency of the Lord. That is the difference between the Vishnutatwa and Jivatatwas. The Jivatatwas are infinitesemal potential particles of the Lord and therefore they require the protection of the Lord at all times. And to the eternal servitors of the Lord the Lord is pleased to give all protection at all times. The liberated souls never therefore think of themselves as free as the Lord or as powerful as the Lord but they always seek the protection of the Lord at all circumstances never mind either in the material world or in the spiritual world. This dependence of the liberted soul is constitutional as much as the sparks of the fire can exhibit the glow of fire along with the fire and not independently. Independently the glow of the sparks become extinguished although the quality of fire or glowing is there. As such those who give up the protection of the Lord and become so called lord themselves out of spiritual igonrance do come back again in this material world even after prolonged Tapasya of the severest type. That is the verdict of all vedic literature.