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Part Forty-Two
DESCENTION OF RADHA KRISHNA TO GOLAK DHAM BRINDABAN

Eighty-Seventh Chapter

INTIMATE TALK BETWEEN KRISHNA AND RADHA AT NIGHT

As evening began to fall, ShreeGovind came to see his father at his quarters and had a chit-chat for a while. Then he went to Yashoda’s room, where he ate Nani-makhan. As it as getting late at night, he got up from his asand [chair] and lay on a couch, simulating a sound sleep.

Yashoda has forgotten her hundred years’ wretchedness and heartache, now that she was quite content with the fulfilment of her wish to see her son again. Full of motherly love for her Krishna, whom she still considered to be a boy, she also went to sleep soundly.

When his mother was fast asleep, Govind got out of bed and came out stealthily. He was full of Anurag [passionate attachment] with Radha. He walked over to Radha’s quarters. Radha received him warmly and seated him in a divan. After paying homage she sat down on his left side. Various sakhis, very affectionately served them with sharbat. Then, taking note of the time and place, they left them alone.

Krishna held Radha’s two hands tightly in his palms. He was very worried that he might lose her again after one hundred years of separation. She was like an apparition, not real. He then made a poignant request with a voice that was delicate and hungry, “Listen my love, and please say yes to what I am going to ask you.

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