Text 42
apy avadhyāyathāsmān svid
akṛta-jñāviśaṅkayā
nūnaṁ bhūtāni bhagavān
yunakti viyunakti ca
api — also; avadhyāyatha — you hold in contempt; asmān — Us; svit — perhaps; akṛta-jña — as being ungrateful; āviśaṅkayā — with the suspicion; nūnam — indeed; bhūtāni — living beings; bhagavān — the Supreme Lord; yunakti — joins; viyunakti — separates; ca — and.
Do you perhaps think I’m ungrateful and thus hold Me in contempt? After all, it is the Supreme Lord who brings living beings together and then separates them.
Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī reveals the gopīs’ thoughts: “We are not like You, who, with Your heart shattered by remembering us day and night, gave up all sense enjoyment in Your distress of separation. Rather, we have not remembered You at all; in fact, we have been quite happy without You.” In response, Kṛṣṇa here asks whether they resent His ingratitude.