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the damsels of Vṛndāvana who had the opportunity of enjoying Kṛṣṇa’s kissing must be the foremost of all the fortunate women in the world.” In this example, the ecstasy of fraternal devotional service is the whole, and the ecstasy of conjugal love is the part.
The following statement was made by Krṣṇa to the  gopīs : “My dear enchanted, don’t gaze at Me with longing eyes like this. Be satisfied and return to your homes in Vrṇdāvana. There is no necessity of your presence here.” While Krṣṇa was joking in this way with the damsels of Braja, who with great hope had come to enjoy the  rāsa  dance with Him, Subala was also on the scene, and he began to look at Krṣṇa with wide and laughing eyes. Subala’s feeling contained a mixture of fraternity and laughter in devotional service. Fraternity is considered here as the whole, and the laughter is considered as the part.
The following example contains a mixture of ecstatic fraternity and laughter, taken respectively as the whole and part. When Kṛṣṇa saw that Subala, in the dress of Rādhārāṇī, was silently hiding under the shade of a beautiful  aśoka  tree on the bank of the Yamunā, He immediately arose from His seat in surprise. Upon seeing Kṛṣṇa, Subala tried to hide his laughter by covering his cheeks.
There is also an example of a mixture of parental love and compassion in devotional service. When Mother Yaśodā was thinking that her son was walking in the forest without any umbrella or shoes, she became greatly perturbed to think of how much difficulty Kṛṣṇa must have been feeling. In this example the whole is the paternal love, and the part is compassion.
There is the following example of a mixture of parental love and laughter. A friend of Mother Yaśodā told her, “My dear Yaśodā, your son has very cunningly stolen a lump of butter from my home. And to make me blame my own son for His mischief, He has smeared some of the butter on my son’s face while he was sleeping!” Upon hearing this, Mother Yaśodā shook her curved eyebrows. She could only look at her friend with a smiling face. May Mother Yaśodā bless everyone with this smiling attitude. In this example the whole is the parental love, and the part is the laughter.
There is an example of a mixture of several humors with devotions.