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to become blind and puffed up, but he should take care of his friends and relatives.”
When Vasudeva was speaking to Nanda Mahārāja in this way, he was influenced by a great feeling for the friendship of Nanda Mahārāja and the beneficial activities executed by King Nanda on his behalf. As such, his eyes filled with tears, and he began to cry. Desiring to please his friend Vasudeva and being affectionately bound with love for Lord Krṣṇa and Balarāma, Nanda Mahārāja passed three months in their association. At the end of this time, all the members of Yadu dynasty tried to please the inhabitants of Vrṇdāvana to their hearts’ content. The members of the Yadu dynasty tried to satisfy Nanda Mahārāja and his associates by offering them clothing, ornaments, and many other valuable articles, and they all became fully satisfied. Vasudeva, Ugrasena, Lord Krṣṇa, Lord Balarāma, Uddhava and all other members of the Yadu dynasty presented their individual gifts to Nanda Mahārāja and his associates. After Nanda Mahārāja received these farewell presentations, he, along with his associates, started for Vrajabhūmi, Vrṇdāvana. The minds of the inhabitants of Vrṇdāvana remained, however, with Krṣṇa and Balarāma, and therefore all of them started for Vrṇdāvana without their minds.
When the members of the Vrṣṇi family saw all their friends and visitors departing, they observed that the rainy season was approaching, and thus they decided to return to Dvārakā. They were fully satisfied, for they regarded Krṣṇa as everything. When they returned to Dvārakā, they began with great satisfaction to describe the sacrifice performed by Vasudeva, their meeting with various friends and well-wishers, and various other incidences which occurred during their travels in the places of pilgrimage.
Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the Second Volume, Twenty-Ninth Chapter, of Krṣṇa, “Sacrificial Ceremonies Performed by Vasudeva.”