In English
If you really want to understand the intimate relationship between and , you will have to note an incident which took place when went out into a bamboo thicket and was sitting in a lonely place. Her attachment to can be understood from her words. She was sent out of the village and in agony she sings, “There is trouble in the village and there is not a shade where I can take shelter! So I have come and I am maintaining this life breath in myself for your sake. This life exists for your sake. Show yourself at least in my dreams. My mind cannot rest even for a moment if I cannot see you. You are like my eyeball within myself if I am to describe you; but if I have to see you, you are like a small baby who is outside me. But if I have no eyeball in me, then I cannot even look at this small baby. You are the one who shows and you are the one whom I aspire to see. In your gross human form, will you not show yourself to me at least once?” At that time, was in , where he had gone to kill . In that prayer of , we notice that even though there was no place for her to take shelter, yet she was maintaining the life breath solely for the sake of . While she was engaging herself in this kind of introspection, it looked to her as if her companions were playing some games. One group of were singing and saying that Gopala had returned to . As soon as she heard that song, she thought that Gopala had really returned, and she jumped out of the bamboo thicket into the hot sand and she was running forward to meet Gopala, not minding the heat of the sand. ’s was such that she was always on the banks of the , both in the heat and in the cold. In the heat, her body was getting scorched and as the body was getting scorched she never bothered. She always remained on the banks of the braving the ravages of the heat and the cold. She was singing to the Lord, praying that he should come to her with the jingling of the anklets which he used to wear at the time of the killing of the great serpent. She was singing in ecstasy and addressing her Lord and asking him to come to her. In such ecstasy, she dropped dead.