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Krṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
Uddhava appreciated the exalted position of the  gopīs  and wished to fall down and take the dust of their feet on his head. Yet he did not dare to ask the  gopīs  to offer the dust from their feet; perhaps they would not be agreeable. He therefore desired to have his head smeared with the dust of the  gopīs ' feet without their knowledge. He desired to become only an insignificant clump of grass or herbs in the land of Vṛndāvana.
The  gopīs  were so much attracted to Krṣṇa that when they heard the vibration of His flute, they instantly left their families, children, honor and feminine bashfulness and ran towards the place where Krṣṇa was standing. They did not consider whether they were passing over the road or through the jungles. Imperceptibly, the dust of their feet was bestowed on small grasses and herbs of Vṛndāvana. Not daring to place the dust of the  gopīs ' feet on his own head, Uddhava aspired to have a future birth in the position of a clump of grass and herbs. He would then be able to have the dust of the  gopīs ' feet.
Uddhava appreciated the extraordinary fortune of the  gopīs , who relieved themselves of all kinds of material contamination by placing on their high, beautiful breasts the lotus feet of Krṣṇa, which are not only worshiped by the goddess of fortune, but by such exalted demigods as Brahmā and Lord Śiva, and which are meditated upon by great  yogīs  within their hearts. Thus Uddhava desired to be able to constantly pray to be honored by the dust of the  gopīs ' lotus feet. The  gopīs ' chanting of the transcendental pastimes of Lord Krṣṇa has become celebrated all over the three worlds.
After living in Vṛndāvana for some days, Uddhava desired to go back to Krṣṇa, and he begged permission to leave from Nanda Mahārāja and Yaśodā. He had a farewell meeting with the  gopīs , and taking permission of them also, he mounted his chariot to start for Mathurā.
When Uddhava was about to leave, all the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana, headed by Mahārāja Nanda and Yaśodā, came to bid him good-bye and presented him with various kinds of valuable goods secured in Vṛndāvana. They expressed their feelings with tears in their eyes due to intense attachment for Krṣṇa. All of them desired benediction from Uddhava. They desired always to remember the glorious activities of Krṣṇa and wanted their minds to be always fixed upon His lotus feet, their words always engaged in glorifying Krṣṇa, and their bodies always engaged in bowing down and constantly remembering Him. This prayer of the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana is the superexcellent type of self-realization. The method is very simple: to fix the mind always on the lotus feet of Krṣṇa, to talk always of Krṣṇa without passing on to any other subject matter, and to