PLATE SIX
“Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued to describe His pastimes with Lord Kṛṣṇa in Vṛndāvana: ‘In Vṛndāvana, the trees and creepers are wonderful because throughout the entire year they produce all kinds of fruits and flowers. The  gopīs  and maidservants in the bowers of Vṛndāvana pick these fruits and flowers and bring them before Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. The  gopīs  peeled all the fruits and placed them together on large plates on a platform in the jeweled cottage. They arranged the fruit in orderly rows for eating, and in front of it they made a place to sit. Among the fruits were many varieties of coconut and mango, bananas, berries, jackfruits, dates, tangerines, oranges, blackberries,  santarās , grapes, almonds and all kinds of dried fruit. There were cantaloupes,  kṣirikās , palmfruits,  keśuras , water fruits, lotus fruits, bael,  pīlu , pomegranate and many others. Some of them are variously known in different places, but in Vṛndāvana they are always available in so many thousands of varieties that no one can fully describe them. At home Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī had made various types of sweetmeats from milk and sugar, such as  gaṅgājala ,  amṛtakeli ,  pīyūṣagranthi ,  karpūrakeli ,  sarapūrī ,  amṛti ,  padmacini  and  kaṇḍa-kṣīrisāra-vṛkṣa . She had then brought them all for Kṛṣṇa. When Kṛṣṇa saw the very nice arrangement of food, He happily sat down and had a forest picnic.’” (pp.167-170)