364 The Nectar of Devotion

sleeping even for a moment.” When the face becomes wet, the sleep-
ing tendency is immediately removed. So when Radharani was always
weeping for Krsna because of His separation, there was no chance of
Her getting any sleep for Herself. In the Prahlada-sarmhita Uddhava
says, ““The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda, painstricken
due to being pierced by the arrows of Cupid, is always thinking of
you [the gopis|, and He is not even accepting His regular lunch. Nor
is He getting any proper rest.”

When the lover and beloved come together and enjoy one another
by direct contact, this stage is called sambhoga. There is a statement
in Padyavali as follows: “Krsna embraced Srimati Radharani in such
an expert manner that He appeared to be celebrating the dancing
ceremony of the peacocks.”

Sri Ripa Gosvami thus ends the fifth wave of his Ocean of the
Nectar of Devotion. He offers his respectful obeisances to the Su-
preme Personality of Godhead who appeared as Gopala, the eternal
form of the Lord.

Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta summary study of the third division
of Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu in the matter of the five primary relation-
ships with Krsna.
