Further Features of Ecstatic Love for Krsna 266
Impudence

In the Tenth Canto, 52nd Chapter, 33rd verse of the Srimad-
Bhagavatam, Rukmini addresses a letter to Krsna as follows: “My
dear unconquerable Krsna, my marriage day is fixed for tomorrow. I
request that You come to the city of Vidarbha without advertising
Yourself. Then have Your soldiers and commanders suddenly sur-
round and defeat all the strength of the King of Magadha and by thus
adopting the methods of the demons, please kidnap and marry me.”

According to the Vedic system there are eight kinds of marriages,
out of which one is called raksasa-vivaha. Raksasa-vivaha refers to kid-
napping a girl and marrying her by force and is considered to be a
demonic method. When Rukmini was going to be married to Sigupala
by the choice of her elder brother, she wrote the above letter to
Krsna requesting Him to kidnap her. This is an instance of impudence
in ecstatic love for Krsna.

One of the gopis said, ““May Krsna’s sweet flute be washed away by
the waves of the Yamuna, and let it fall into the ocean! The sweet
sound of that flute is so impudent that it makes us lose all composure
before our superiors.”

Dizziness

Every evening at sunset Krsna used to return from the pasturing
ground where He herded cows. Sometimes when Mother Yasoda
could not hear the sweet vibration of His flute she would become very
anxious, and because of this she would feel dizzy. Thus, dizziness
caused by anxiety in ecstatic love for Krsna is also possible.

When Yasoda had tied Krsna up one time, she began to think,
““Krsna’s body is so soft and delicate, how could I have tied Him with
rope?” Thinking this, her brain became puzzled, and she felt dizzi-
ness.

The gopis were advised by their superiors to bolt the doors at
night, but they were so carefree that they did not carry out this order
very rigidly. Sometimes, by thinking of Krsna, they became so con-
fident of being out of all danger that they would lie down at night in
the courtyards of their houses. This is an instance of dizziness in
