You may concentrate your attention on him, you shall not be doing anything wrong by this.”902.
Speech of the gopis:
SWAYYA
Hearing these words of Udhava, they replied, “O Udhava! hearing about whom, there is feeling of separation and the happiness is decreased,
“That Krishna has left us
When you go, you may tell this to him, “You have forthwith forsaken love.”903.
The women of Braja said to Udhava again, “On one side he has left us and on the other side, your talk is inflaming our mind,”
Saying thus, the gopis added, “O Udhava! you may tell Krishna this much definitely : ‘O Krishna! you have bidden farewell to the passion of love.”904.
Getting mad again in the passionate love of Krishna, the gopis said to Udhava, “O Udhava! we request you that
“Those gopis, whose bodies were like gold, their bodies have been destroyed
O Udhava! none except you has communicated with us.”905.
Someone in extreme worry and someone in extreme ire is saying, “O Udhava! he, for whose sight, our love is overflowing, the same Krishna has cast off his love for us
“He has forsaken us and has absorbed himself with the residents of his city
It is true the way in which Krishna has abandoned the women of Braja, now you may accept this that the women of Braja have abandoned Krishna.”906.
Some of the gopis said that they had forsaken Krishna and some of them said that they would do whatever Krishna has asked them to do
The guises that Krishna had asked them to do, the guises that Krishna had asked the gopis to wear, they would wear them
Some of them said that they would go to Krishna and others said that they would sing his praises
Some gopi says that she will die by taking poison and someone else says that she will die while meditating upon him.907.
Speech of Udhava addressed to the gopis:
SWAYYA
Seeing such a state of gopis, Udhava marveled over it and said, “I know that you are immensely in love with Krishna,
“But you are advised not to assume the garb of Yogins
I have been sent by Krishna to you ask you to forsake your homely duties and only meditate on Krishna.”908.
Speech of gopis addressed to Udhava:
SWAYYA
Once in the alvoces of Braja, Krishna bedecked me with ear-pendants which were studded with very precious stones
Their praise could not even be uttered by Brahma
Just as the lightning flashes in the clouds, their beauty was just like that
O Udhava! Krishna gave all these at that time, but now he, having clad you in the garb of yogi, has sent to us.909.
Some gopi said that they would become yogins according to the saying of Krishna and rub ashes on the body and carry begging bowls
Someone said that they would go to Krishna and die there on taking poison
Someone said that they would produce the fire of separation and burn themselves in it.910.
Speech of Radha addressed to Udhava:
SWAYYA
Being immersed in the love of Krishna, Radha said, “Now Krishna has forsaken Braja and gone to Matura and has put us in such straitened circumstances
“He has fallen in passionate love with the women of Matura, on seeing them
Krishna has been tamed by Kubja and in such a state no pain has arisen in the heart of that butcher.911.
“The bed of flowers is looking splendid in the moonlit night
The current of the whilte Yamuna appears like a beautiful raiment and the particles of sand appear like the necklace of gems
“The god of love seeing us without Krishna is attacking us with his arrows and that Krishna has been taked by Kubja