I am absorbed in your love and I have found you today after a great search
“Bow before me with folded hands I tell you on oath that from today you are mine,
“Krishna said smilingly, “Listen, everything has occurred on your coming out of water, why are you absorbed in more thoughts now uselessly.”275.
“Do not feel shy from me and also do not have any doubt about me
I am your servant accepting my request, bow before me with folded hands
Krishna said further, “I live only on seeing your doe-like eyes
Do not delay, you will not lose anything by this.”276.
DOHRA
When Krishna did not return the clothes, then accepting defeat, the gopis decided to do whatever Krishna said.277.
SWAYYA
All of them smiling among themselves and uttering sweet words, began to bow before Krishna
“O Krishna! now be pleased with us, whatsoever you want, we acceded to that, Now there is no difference between you and us whatever pleases you, is good for us.”278.
“Your eyebrows are like a bow, from which the arrows of lust are coming out and striking us like the dagger
The eyes are extremely beautiful, the face is like moon and the hair like a she-serpent even if we see you a little, the mind gets infatuated
Krishna said, “When the lust has arisen in my mind, therefore I had requested you all
Let me kiss your faces and I swear that I shall not tell anything at home.”279.
The gopis accepted with pleasure all, that Krishna said the current of joy increased in their mind and the stream of love flowed
The shyness disappeared from both sides and Krishna also said smilingly, “I have obtained today the store of happiness.”280.
The gopis said amongst themselves, “See, what Krishna has said
” Hearing the words of Krishna, the stream of love gushed up further
Now from their minds all the suspicions were removed and they all said smilingly, “The boon bestowed by the mother Durga, has evidently manifested in reality before us.”281.
Krishna performed amorous play with all of them and then giving them their clothes, he released all of them
All the gopis, adoring the mother Durga, went to their homes
The happiness grew in their hearts to the extreme like the growth of green grass on the earth after the rain.282.
Speech of the gopis:
ARIL
Bravo to mother Durga, who bestowed this boon on us and bravo to this day today, in which Krishna has become our friend.
“Mother Durga! now be graceful to us so that on other days also we may get opportunity of meeting Krishna.”283.
Speech of the gopis addressed to the goddess:
SWAYYA
“O Chandi! be graceful to us so that Krishna may remain our beloved
We fall at thy feet that Krishna may meet us as our beloved and Balram as our Brother
Therefore, O mother! Thy name is sung all over the world as the destroyer of demons
We shall fall at thy feet again, when this boon will be bestowed upon us.”284.
KABIT
The poet Shyam says, “O goddess! Thou art the death of the demons and
Lover of the saints and the creator of the beginning and the end
“Thou art Parvati, the eight-armed goddess, extremely beautiful and the sustainer of the hungry
Thou art the red, white and yellow colour and Thou art the manifestation and creator of the earth.”285