Verse 18

¹³As Krsna sported so, by his walk, his talk, his glances and his smiles, by his jests and his teasing and his embraces, the minds of the women were carried off, so it is said. ¹⁴With a mind for Mukunda alone, they spoke, their speech gone dull as though they were mad, thinking of him whose eyes are lotuses. Hear these words of theirs as I say them. ¹⁵Osprey, you are crying out. Sleep has left you and you do not lie down. In the night, in this world, the Lord sleeps, his knowing hidden away. Or is it, friend, that your heart too is split deep open, as ours is, by the wide play of the glance and the laugh of the lotus-eyed one?

¹⁶You close your eyes at night, not having seen your mate, and you cry out piteously, alas, cakravaki. Or have you come to be a slave, as we have, and do you long to carry on your braid the garland that the Unfallen's feet have touched? ¹⁷Ho, ho, sea, you are always sounding. You get no sleep; you have come to a waking that stays. Or have you too, with the mark of your own self carried off by Mukunda, come to a state that cannot be got past? ¹⁸You are seized by a strong wasting, moon; you are worn thin, and you do not wear the darkness away with your own beams. Or is it, ho, that you have forgotten what Mukunda said, as we have, and so we see you with your speech shut up?