379 The Nectar of Devotion

ject. In Vidagdha-madhava, Second Canto, 53rd verse, Lalitagopi ex-
pressed her anger, which was caused by Krsna, when she addressed
Srimati Radharani thus: ‘‘My dear friend, my inner desires have been
polluted. Therefore I shall go to the place of Yamaraja. But I am sor-
ry to see that Krsna has still not given up His smiling over cheating
You. I do not know how You could repose all Your loving propensi-
ties upon this lusty young boy from the neighborhood of the cow-
herds.”

After seeing Krsna, Jaratt 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, ad-
dressing all the residents of Vrndavana 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 Krsna in anger was expressed by Rohini-
devi when she heard the roaring sound of the two falling arjwna trees
to which Krsna had been tied. The whole neighborhood proceeded
immediately towards the place where the accident took place, and
Rohinidevi took the opportunity to rebuke Mother Yasoda as fol-
lows: “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 Rohinidevi’s anger toward Yasoda
is an example of ecstatic love in anger caused by Krsna.

Once, while Krsna was in the pasturing ground with His cowherd
boys, His friends requested Him to go to the Talavana Forest, where
Gardabhasura, a disturbing demon in the shape of an ass, resided.
The friends of Krsna wanted to eat the fruit from the forest trees,
but they could not go because of fear of the demon. Thus they re-
quested Krsna to go there and kill Gardabhasura. After Krsna did
this, they all returned home, and their report of the day’s activity
perturbed Mother Yasgoda because Krsna had been sent alone into
such danger in the Talavana Forest. Thus she looked upon the boys
with anger.

There is another instance of anger on the part of a friend of
Radharani’s. When Radharani was dissatisfied with the behavior of
