Dandavats.com (@dandavats) %u2022 Instagram photos and videos: Srila Prabhupada exclaims, %u201COne friend of one gopi, she is warning, %u2018Please don%u2019t go that side.'%u201D
%u201CWhere? Why are you warning me, and what happens?%u201D
This is a very nice verse composed by Rupa Gosvami. Prabhupada references *Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu* 1.2.239:
*My dear friend, if you are indeed attached to your worldly friends, do not look at the smiling face of Lord Govinda as He stands on the bank of the Yamuna at Kesighata. Casting sidelong glances, He places His flute to His lips, which seem like newly blossomed twigs. His transcendental body, bending in three places, appears very bright in the moonlight.*
Prabhupada explains, %u201CThis is a very nice verse composed by Rupa Gosvami. In it, one friend of one gopi is warning, %u2018My dear friend, please do not go that side.%u2019
%u201C%u2018Where?%u2019 her friend asks.
%u201C%u2018On the bank of Kesi-ghata, Yamuna,%u2019 she answers.
%u201C%u2018Why are you warning me?%u2019 her friend asks again.
%u201C%u2018Because there is that boy whose name is Govinda.%u2019
%u201C%u2018What is He doing?%u2019
%u201C%u2018He is simply smiling, and with His flute. He is so bright by the rays of the moon that He looks very, very beautiful.%u2019
%u201C%u2018Then? What happens?%u2019
%u201C%u2018Now, if you go and see Him, you will forget your engagement with family and friendship and love and everything, all. He will absorb everything. So don%u2019t go there.%u2019
She is warning, yes, %u2018Don%u2019t go.'%u201D
> **Ref. VedaBase**: Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.9 %u2013 July 4, 1968, Montreal
