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 47 the Gopis, and to “teach ‘them to put themselves into religious communion with God and to find their beloved and absent Krishna in the ever- present God-head that pervades the universe. ‘‘ Communion !” ery the enraged and exasperated Gopis, “ We have no room for it in our frames. There is not an inch of our bodies and minds where Krishua himself is not. Our frames and ‘our visions in and out are full of Krishna tothe brim. There is no room left for communion when we feel one with him already even in this separation.” -The foster-mother’ Jasoda speaks more plainly and bluntly: “Ido not know that my child Krishna is God—I do not believe it. How can the lord of the universe tend my cows? Uddhav, I must tell yon, we shepherds are not philosophers, and will have none of your philosophy. Iam the mother of my child Krishna, and shall weep, and weep, and weep, for him, and shall never accept your word to believe that my child is God and is present in invisible form, though he is bodily present elsewhere.” Uddhav is wonder-struck with what he sees and hearsatGokul. Krishna, he finds, has .& wonderful fascination over the hearts of all people in this little village. Man and woman, child and adult, at work or at leisure, has the name of Krishna on the tip of his or her tongue, and thinks of Krishna, and the invisible Krishna reigns in all hearts. He returns to Krishna, and tells him that the world. at Gokul is full of him. It is in