uddāma smara-keli saṅgara bhare kāmaṁ vanāntaḥ khale
kṛṣṇenāṅkita pīna parvata kuca dvandvāṁ nakhair astrakaiḥ
tad darpeṇa tathā madoddhuram aho taṁ viddham ākurvatīṁ
dūre svālikulaiḥ kṛtāśiṣam aho rādhāṁ kadāhaṁ bhaje

O! When will I serve Śrī Rādhā, who enjoyed a great playful erotic battle of Cupid in the forest with Kṛṣṇa, who scratched Her huge, mountain-like breasts with the weapons of His nails, and who then proudly and madly scratched Him in return, being blessed from a distance by Her girlfriends?

Stavāmṛta Kaṇā Vyākhyā:

Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī has a transcendental vision of Śrī Rādhā being intoxicated by Cupid, and when this vision vanishes, he anxiously prays for Her devotional service in this verse.

In a transcendental vision he sees himself in his mañjarī-svarūpa, and he sees Rādhā and Mādhava enjoying in a nikuñja-cottage in the dense forest of Vraja. Śrī Kṛṣṇa was intoxicated by the wine of Cupid and during a fierce battle of eros He scratched Śrī Rādhā’s huge mountain-like breasts with the weapons of His nails. Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa, in his siddha-svarūpa of Tulasī Mañjarī, looks through the holes of the vine-cottage to witness these pastimes and sees how Kṛṣṇa’s beautiful nailmarks on Rādhā’s breasts resemble moon-beams on a golden Śiva-liṅgam.

The erotic intoxication and the erotic battle spoken of in this verse mean the intoxication caused by Rādhā and Mādhava’s spotless desire to make Each other happy. This is called mada rasa mattatā. Śrī Rādhā and Mādhava’s love is totally spotless and devoid of desires for personal sense-gratification. Their love is totally free from any of the most subtle kinds of motivations that may exist in the kingdom of love, and is splendid like gold washed a hundred times. But if there is no absorption that resembles personal gratification then the beloved cannot become happy, hence this kind of intoxication, that is the cause of the beloved’s happiness, gives the Divine Pair great mutual happiness. That is the internal beauty of Rādhā and Mādhava’s erotic intoxication.

Kiṅkarī Tulasī glances through the window of the kuñja and sees that during this erotic battle, Kṛṣṇa beautifies the breasts of her mistress with nailmarks that resemble moon-beams, and that Svāminī, in Her great erotic ecstasy, in return defeats Kṛṣṇa (taking an opposite position – viparīta vilāsa – throwing Him on His back) and attacks Him with Her nails also, severely scratching Him. Seeing Rādhārāṇī’s activities, Her girlfriends are very pleased and they bless Her.

One may ask here: “Being totally dedicated to Śrī Rādhā, the sakhīs are supposed to seek Her blessings, but instead they are blessing Her. How is that possible? Superiors can bless the juniors, juniors cannot bless the superiors!”

The answer is that sometimes the superiors bless the juniors by saying: “May all be auspicious for you!”, and the juniors will respond by saying: “May God bless you!”

This is not a diminution of the superior’s position at all. The sakhīs of Vraja feel that they are nondifferent from Śrī Rādhā, and therefore they blissfully bless the erotically intoxicated Śrīmatī by saying: “Hey Rādhe! May You always delight our eyes by showing such a great erotic intoxication!” After this vision vanishes, Śrī Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī covets the personal service of this Rādhārāṇī.

keli kuñja abhyantare, vilāsa śayyāra pare,
śrī rādhikā madana mohana
uddāma surata keli, paraspara duhu meli,
koriteche apūrva darśana

“Śrī Rādhikā and Madana Mohana are giving an amazing darśana of Their meeting during a ferocious erotic pastime on a play-bed within a play-grove.”

samara taraṅga mājhe, vidagadha rasarāje,
nija nakha astrete priyāra
pīna kuca-yuga śaile, vicitra aṅkita koile,
madonmatta hoiyā bāre bāra

“In the middle of that erotic battle the clever king of relishers, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, being wholly intoxicated by erotic bliss, constantly made amazing marks on the big mountain-like breasts of His beloved with His own nails.”

vilāsinī sei mate, āviddha kore prāṇanāthe,
sakhīgaṇa deya āśīrvāṇī
vilāsa rasera khani, premamayī guṇamaṇi,
kobe vā bhajibo rādhārāṇī

“In the same way Vilāsinī, playful Rādhikā, pierced the Lord of Her life, with the blessings of Her girlfriends. When will I worship that Rādhārāṇī, who is a mine of all kinds of rasika pastimes, who is full of love for Kṛṣṇa, and who is a jewel-of-qualities?”