trini gulmany atiyaya

 tisrah kaksas ca sa-dvijah

vipro ’gamyandhaka-vrsninam

 grhesv acyuta-dharminam

 

grham dvy-asta-sahasranam

 mahisinam harer dvijah

vivesaikatamam srimad

 brahmanandam gato yatha

 

Translation: 

 

The learned brahmana, joined by some local brahmanas, passed three guard stations and went through three gateways, and then he walked by the homes of Lord Krsna’s faithful devotees, the Andhakas and Vrsnis, which ordinarily no one could do. He then entered one of the opulent palaces belonging to Lord Hari’s sixteen thousand queens, and when he did so he felt as if he were attaining the bliss of liberation.

 

Purport: 

 

When the saintly brahmana entered the precincts of Lord Krsna’s palaces and then actually entered one of the palaces, he completely forgot everything else, and thus his state of mind is compared to that of one who has just achieved the bliss of spiritual liberation. Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti quotes from the Padma Purana, Uttara-khanda, wherein we learn that the brahmana actually entered the palace of Rukmini: sa tu rukminy-antah-pura-dvari ksanam tusnim sthitah. “He stood for a moment in silence at the doorway of Queen Rukmini’s palace.”