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Chapter 3o: The Gopîs Search for Krishna Gone with Râdhâ

(2) The smitten ones who in their hearts were overwhelmed by the movements, affectionate smiles, playful glances, charming talks and other games of enticement of the husband of Ramâ, enacted absorbed in Him each of those wonderful activities.

(14) The gopîs thus speaking madly got, distraught in their search for Krishna, fully immersed in Him, with indeed each of them acting out the games of their Lord of Fortune.

(35) He, although by the Soul perfectly contented and in Himself complete, did enjoy Himself with Her demonstrating the state of being fallen of people in love as also the self-centered of its femininity.

(41) S'rî S'uka said: 'The gopîs not far away searching out the track of the Supreme Lord discovered their unhappy friend bewildered of her separation from Her Beloved.

Chapter 31: The Songs of the Gopîs in Separation

(9) Your sweet talks as described by the great thinkers do, driving away all sins, bring the wretched back to life and give, charged with spiritual power, upon being heard the spiritual benefit; o how beneficent the persons who with song spread them all over the world [*].

Chapter 32: Krishna Returns to the Gopîs

(11-12) The Almighty One taking them with Him arrived at the soft sandbanks of the Yamunâ that the auspicious river had collected by the hands of her waves. There the kunda and mandara flowers with their bees bloomed fragrant in the autumnal breeze as the moon, plentifully shining, with its rays dispelled the dark of night.

Chapter 33: The Râsa Dance

(3-4) The festive play commenced with the gopîs in a circle that was decorated with, in their midst, Krishna, the Controller of the Mystic Union, who held the woman, two by two present besides Him, by their necks. At that moment was the sky crowded by hundreds of celestial carriers belonging to the denizens of heaven and their wives who by the eagerness of respecting them in their minds were carried away.

(17) He, the Master of the Goddess of Fortune, thus with embraces, touches of His hand, affectionate glances and broad playful smiles enjoyed the young women of Vraja just like a boy who is playing with His own reflection.

(24) In the water was He from all sides splashed wet by the girls eyeing Him with love and laughter, my best, and being worshiped from the heavenly carriers with a rain of flowers reveled He, personally always pleased within, there in playing the king of the elephants [see also 8.3].

Chapter 34: Sudars'ana Delivered and S'ankhacûda Killed

(12-13) The [erstwhile] serpent said: 'I am Sudars'ana, a certain Vidyâdhara well-known for his opulence and appearance, who used to wander the directions in his celestial carrier. Vainglorious having laughed at the sages born of Angirâ was I for my sin of deriding them made to assume this ugly form.

(31) Overtaking him like nothing blew He, the Almighty Lord, with His fist simply his crest jewel off together with his head.

Chapter 35: The Gopîs Sing of Krishna as He Wanders in the Forest

(18-19)

When He, with the garland
of the by Him favored fragrance
of tulsi, counts the cows
on a string of colored beads
and, throwing His arm
over the shoulder of a loving
companion, so now and then sings,

do the wives of the black deer,
the doe, just like the gopîs
who gave up their homely aspirations,
approach that ocean
of transcendental qualities to sit
at His side with their hearts stolen
by the sound that Krishna
produces with His flute.