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The reciter said: On Uddhava's arrival in Vrindavan the herd-boys and the women of Vraja came running, eager to see him. They all asked, "Is Sri Krishna well? Has he forgotten us? Does he speak our names?" Saying this, some began to weep; some took him round to the different places of Vrindavan and said, "Here Sri Krishna held up Govardhan; here he slew the demon Dhenuka, and here the demon Sakata. In this field he grazed the cows, on this bank of the Jamuna he would play. Here he sported with the cowherd boys; in these groves he talked with the gopis." Uddhava said, "Why do you grieve so for Krishna? He is in all beings. He is God Himself. There is nothing but Him." The gopis said, "We do not understand all that. We know nothing of reading and writing. We know only the Krishna of our Vrindavan, who played here in so many ways and then went away." Uddhava said, "He is God Himself. If you think of Him, you need not come back into this world again; the soul becomes free." The gopis said, "Liberation and all such talk, we do not understand it. It is Krishna, the life of our lives, whom we long to see."