When one of them was rolling on the ground in terrible anguish at the separation from Krishna, they sat around her and instead of assuaging her grief by turning her thoughts away from Krishna, they augmented it because they themselves could not think of any other subject to talk to her than Krishna’s glory and Krishna’s Prema! They sat around and sang, “Govinda! Damodara! Maadhava!” Whoever has the thirst, Krishna will quench it; whoever calls on Him in the agony of that thirst, Krishna, the rain-cloud, will answer that call and appear.

Once, Krishna too pretended to be suffering from headache, intense, unbearable headache! He acted that role quite realistically. He wound warm clothes around His head, rolled restlessly in bed. His eyes were red and He was in evident distress. The face too appeared swollen and pale. Rukmini, Sathyabhaama and the other queens rushed about with all kinds of remedies and palliatives.