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Krṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
embarrassed before unknown persons. They began to welcome him with polite words, in great submissiveness. “We know that you are a most confidential associate of Krṣṇa and that He has therefore sent you to Vrṇdāvana to give solace to His father and mother. We can understand that family affection is very strong. Even great sages who have taken to the renounced order of life cannot give up family members. Krṣṇa has therefore sent you to His father and mother; otherwise He has no further business in Vrṇdāvana. He is now in town. What does He have to know about Vrṇdāvana Village or the cows’ pasturing grounds? These things are not at all useful for Krṣṇa because He is now a man in the city.
“Surely He has nothing to do with persons who do not happen to be His family members. Why should one bother about those who are outside the family, especially and specifically those who are attached as the wives of others. Krṣṇa is interested in them as long as there is a need of gratification, like the bumblebees who have interest in the flowers as long as they want to take the honey out of them. It is very natural and psychological that a prostitute does not care for her paramour as soon as he loses his money. Similarly, when the citizens find that a government is incapable of giving them full protection, they leave the country. A student, after finishing his education, gives up his relationship with the teacher and the school. A rich man, after taking his reward from his worshiper, gives him up. When the fruit season is over, the birds are no longer interested in the tree. Just after eating in the house of a lord, the guest gives up his relationship with the host. After a forest fire, when there is a scarcity of green grass, the deer and other animals give up the forest. And so a man, after enjoying his girl friend, gives up his connection with her.” In this way, all the  gopīs  began to indirectly accuse Krṣṇa by citing so many similes.
Uddhava understood that the  gopīs  of Vrṇdāvana were all simply absorbed in the thought of Krṣṇa and His childhood activities. While talking about Krṣṇa with Uddhava, they forgot all about their household business. They even forgot about themselves as their interest in Krṣṇa increased more and more.
One of the  gopīs , namely Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, was so much absorbed in thoughts of Krṣṇa by dint of Her personal touch with Him that She actually began to talk with a bumblebee which was flying there and trying to touch Her lotus feet. While another  gopī  was talking with Krṣṇa’s messenger Uddhava, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī took that bumblebee to be a messenger from Krṣṇa and began to talk with it as follows. “Bumblebee, you are accustomed to drinking honey from the flowers, and therefore you have preferred to be a messenger of Krṣṇa, who is of the same nature as