One day Yasodha was searching for Krishna who had strayed away; she sought almost everywhere and at last, she went to the house of Radha. Radha just closed her eyes and meditated on Krishna for a while and when she called “Krishna,” Krishna was there. Then, Yasodha shed tears of joy. She said, “I love Krishna as a mother; I have a sense of egoism in me that He is my son and that I must save Him from harm and seek to give Him guidance and protection. Your Prema is pure; it has no egoism prompting it.”

One day, Krishna pretended to be fast asleep, with the flute carelessly thrown aside by His side when Radha approached the fortunate flute and asked it in plaintive terms, “O lucky Murali! Tell me how you earned this great good fortune. What was the vow you observed, the vigil you kept, the pilgrimage you accomplished? What was the Manthra you recited, the idol you worshipped?” The flute got a voice through His Grace and said: “I rid myself of all sensual desire, of envy, greed, of ego, that is all. I had no feeling of ego left to obstruct the flow of His Prema through me to all creation.”