Verse 12

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Who it was they were playing with· Verses 7–12

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Some of them played on flutes and some blew their horns; some sang along with the bees, and others called back and forth with the cuckoos. Some ran after the shadows of the birds, some walked handsomely alongside the swans, some sat down with the cranes, and some danced with the peacocks. Some pulled the young monkeys about, and climbed the trees with them, and made faces along with them, and swung about in the leafy branches. They jumped along with the frogs, soaked with the water of the stream; they laughed at their own reflections, and shouted at the echoes that answered them. So those who had heaped up merit played together with him: the taste of Brahman's joy to the good, the highest god to those who have taken up his service, and a human child to those sheltering in maya.

The dust of whose feet even yogins who hold themselves in cannot come by through the hardship of many births: that very one stood there of himself where their eyes could rest on him. What is to be said of the good fortune of the people of Vraja?