Verse 4
Nothing here worth his remembering· Verses 4–9
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4We know who you are: a companion of the Yadu lord, come here. Your master sent you, wanting to do something his parents would like. 5Otherwise we can see nothing in these cow pastures worth his remembering. The tie of affection to one's kin is hard to let go of, even for a sage. 6Friendship made with anyone else for a purpose is a pretence lasting as long as the purpose, like the friendship men make with women, or bees with flowers. 7Whores leave the man with nothing, subjects leave a king who cannot act, students who have finished their study leave the teacher, priests leave the man who has paid his fee, 8birds leave a tree whose fruit is gone, guests leave the house when they have eaten, deer leave a wood once it is burned, and lovers leave the woman when they have had their pleasure of her.
9So the cowherd women, whose speech and body and mind had all gone into Govinda, when Krsna's messenger Uddhava came, had let go of everything the world thinks of,