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ject. In  Vidagdha-mādhava , Second Canto, 53rd verse, Lalitāgopī expressed her anger, which was caused by Kṛṣṇa, when she addressed Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī thus: “My dear friend, my inner desires have been polluted. Therefore I shall go to the place of Yamarāja. But I am sorry to see that Kṛṣṇa has still not given up His smiling over cheating You. I do not know how You could repose all Your loving propensities upon this lusty young boy from the neighborhood of the cowherds.”
After seeing Kṛṣṇa, Jaratī sometimes said, “O You thief of young girls’ properties! I can distinctly see the covering garment of my daughter-in-law on Your person.” Then she cried very loudly, addressing all the residents of Vṛndāvana to inform them that this son of King Nanda was setting fire to the household life of her daughter-in-law.
Similar ecstatic love for Krṣṇa in anger was expressed by Rohiṇīdevī when she heard the roaring sound of the two falling  arjuna  trees to which Krṣṇa had been tied. The whole neighborhood proceeded immediately towards the place where the accident took place, and Rohiṇīdevī took the opportunity to rebuke Mother Yaśodā as follows: “You may be very expert in giving lessons to your son by binding Him with rope, but don’t you look to see if your son is in a dangerous spot? The trees are falling on the ground, and He is simply loitering there!” This expression of Rohiṇīdevī’s anger toward Yaśodā is an example of ecstatic love in anger caused by Krṣṇa.
Once, while Krṣṇa was in the pasturing ground with His cowherd boys, His friends requested Him to go to the Tālavana Forest, where Gardabhāsura, a disturbing demon in the shape of an ass, resided. The friends of Krṣṇa wanted to eat the fruit from the forest trees, but they could not go because of fear of the demon. Thus they requested Krṣṇa to go there and kill Gardabhāsura. After Krṣṇa did this, they all returned home, and their report of the day's activity perturbed Mother Yaśodā because Krṣṇa had been sent alone into such danger in the Tālavana Forest. Thus she looked upon the boys with anger.
There is another instance of anger on the part of a friend of Rādhārāṇī's. When Rādhārāṇī was dissatisfied with the behavior of