In English
In those days, used to play on the very well. In fact, he used to play on it much better than any other Gopala could play. He could send everyone into ecstasy when he played on the . One of the would come to and say, “Sing, sing to my heart’s content and utter sweet words so that I might feel happy, take the essence of the and sing it through the golden voice of your flute and fill it to my heart’s content.” Another Gopala would come and tell , “Our cows are the and the four feet of the cows are like the four , and out of the cows’ milk, take the and the essence of the and the and pour it into your flute and sing it for us.” In this manner, the moved around and they regarded him as a friend and identified themselves with him. These used to go to the banks of the river, , and swim in the river. When they swam, they would try to catch the legs of the Lord, and it looked as if the big fish was going ahead with the small fish coming behind, trying to catch the legs of the big fish. Thus, in their daily lives they regarded as a common human friend, and they were enjoying the humane qualities of . were not worried, even if their own brothers and sisters were at a distance from them, but they used to grieve if they were separated from even for a moment. Thus, we see that the wanted to get close to by some method or the other. They were not doing any or . They were adopting methods of and love to be near .