Śrī Śrī Lilā Kiśora Yugala (the playful youthful Couple) are playing madhura vana vihāra (sweet forest pastimes), admiring the beauty of the springforest with Their girlfriends.
Śrīpāda is there in his kiṅkarī form, engaged in Their service.
The forest is filled with different kinds of blooming flowers surrounded by humming bees. The cuckoos create a romantic atmosphere by singing in the fifth note and Kṛṣṇa, the young transcendental Cupid of Vṛndāvana, sings along with Ratipriyā Svāminī (Rādhikā, Who enchants millions of Ratis) and Her girlfriends and maidservants.
How sweetly They play in the forest, embracing Each other like a male and a female elephant!
The sakhīs sing sweet songs about the pastimes of the Yugala Kiśora, inciting amorous feelings in Their hearts.
Sometimes Priyājī personally goes to pick flowers to decorate Her Priyatama.
The vinebuds bloom up when they are touched by Svāminī’s hands; they smile with their flowers, horripilate with their sprouts and cry streams of tears with their trickling honey.
How many jokes Śrīmatī makes with Her girlfriends while She picks flowers!
Viśākhā says: “Sakhi Rādhe! Be careful! A greedy bumblebee (Kṛṣṇa) is coming up to You to drink the honey from Your moon-like face!”
Śrīmatī says: “Sakhi! Why should a bumblebee come to Me, leaving behind the fragrant lotus-like faces of beautiful girls like you and your friends? You said that My face is like the moon.
Well, sakhi, the moon has no fragrance, so why would the bee feel attracted to it?”
Śrīpāda, in his kiṅkarī form, sees rādhā karāvacita pallava vallarīke – How beautiful the vine buds are horripilating when they are touched by Śrī Rādhā’s beautiful hands! Through these pastimes he relishes Vṛndāvana’s natural beauty.
Sometimes Śrīmatī wants to pick flowers from high branches, and Śyāma, seeing Her stretched out armpit, becomes attracted to Her and runs up to Her.
Svāminī cannot reach the flowers She wants, so Śyāma helps Her by pulling the branch down. Just as Svāminī catches the flower, Śyāma lets go of the branch, so that tender Rādhikā flies up along with the branch. Fearfully She calls out: “Lalite! Lalite! Help!”, while Śyāma loudly laughs and claps in His hands.
Lalitā pulls the branch back down and takes care that Svāminī returns to the ground.
How beautiful Śrī Rādhā’s footprints have marked the earth of Vrndāvana: rādhā padāṅka vilasan madhura sthalīke.
After picking flowers Śrīmatī sits down on a jeweled platform and makes ornaments from different flowers with Her own hands to decorate Śyāmasundara with.
Śyāmasundara and the sakhīs are overwhelmed with ecstasy when the birds begin to chirp of Śrīmatī’s glories. rādhā yaśo mukhara matta khagāvalīke.
Śrī-Śrī Rādhā Rasa Sudhānidhi
(Rādhākuṇḍa Mahānta Paṇḍita Śrīmat Ananta Dāsa Bābājī Mahārāja)
