Yamuna

But that apart, the story goes, let's come to the story.

So they are all playing on the banks of Yamuna, but there is an area where they are not supposed to go.

Why? Because there is a poisonous snake inside.

So goes the story.

So one day, Shri Krishna with his maujmasthi, He, as if the ball has grown there, so that rule was, if ball goes there, don't go there.

Leave the ball, we'll get you another ball.

But while playing, the ball goes into that portion of Yamuna and Shri Krishna plunges into it, before anybody can stop.

Now all of them know that, you know, this means death.

So Krishna cannot leave this place.

And you also know one fact that when Akrur began to take Krishna and Mathura and he was bringing them and when he came to Brahma Harada on the borderline of Mathura and Vrindavan and Akrur was taking bath in Yamuna Harada, that Brahma Harada and when he, that, eh, underwater and he saw that Krishna is Baldev is here and when he came out and he saw that Krishna and Baldev are in chariot.

Again he did, again went there and again he saw.

What he saw?

And there is no tree where Krishna has not done anything past time.

So there I also become so worried.

And then return, I go to Yamuna.

But there also I see that, oh, here Krishna used to graze cows and take bath in Yamuna.

Now Nanda Baba is waiting where? In Bulakort, where in a shade of a tree he was out of Mathura.

At the bank of Yamuna he was sitting in a Bulakort with some friends like Sridam Subal, Madhumangal.

And they are also very worried.

But Krishna is not coming.

Yes, the gopis also need the mercy of Srimati Radhika.

They go to her, they meet at the Yamuna and they exchange sometimes, because they know that she is the Paramagopi, the highest.

beloved of Mohan.

So sometimes Srimati Radhika will exchange with them and also help them to meet Mohan because she is also not envious even of them.

After Kartik.

Yes, after Kartik.

So they also, they go to the Yamuna and they took bath in the cold water and doing mantras like, you know, and then I realized, wow, this is Gopi bath.

Because all this Katya Jani Vrat and all these mantras and all these austerities is to become a Gopi.

Then she made very high notes that sounded like the...

the waves of the Yamuna, and it was, she is Rathalani, the best of instrumentalists and poets, it sounded as if the whole forest of Vrindavan had entered her the birds who were outside in the trees and making their sounds became still an absolute reference about Ralarani's sound orchestra.

And they all listened very carefully like moonies to the beautiful sound of Srimati Ralarani's Veena.

Now, as Radharani played this, she went into a trance of meditation about Krishna.

She looked behind the tall and thick trees.

Krishna wasn't there.

She went down to the Yamuna and looked for Krishna there.

Krishna was not there.