Verse 1

¹When the Bhagavan had vanished, all at once, the women of Vraja burned, not seeing him, like she-elephants who have lost the leader of the herd. ²Their minds were carried off by his walk, his loving smiles, the play of his glances, his charming talk and his games and his teasing; and the women, being made of him, took up one after another of the ways of moving of Fortune's lord. ³In his walking, his smiling, his looking, his speaking and the rest, the women who loved him took on the shape of the one they loved; and being made of him, and moving as Krsna moves at his games, they announced: I am he. ⁴Singing him aloud and no one else, they searched together from wood to wood like mad women, and asked the great trees after the Person who stands within all beings and outside them, as space does.