The Gopis said amongst themselves: “O God! You have blessed us with eternal pleasure, but we fools have not been able to realise its majesty.” They recall one past incident and laments in the pain of separation.”
(We are most unwise. We have always called him ‘blackey’. Only on the rarest occasion have we tried to please him by agreeing with his views.)
The Gopis blamed themselves for their senseless behaviour. They used to calling Him ‘blackey’. Balram too would call him the same. Once, Shree Krishna sulked because of such insulting address and said to Mother Yashoda, “Maa! I will no longer look after the cows grazing in the hillside. Elder brother Balram calls me ‘blackey’ all day long and orders me with an address of ‘blackey’: “O Blackey! Go and get water for me. O Blackey! Bring back the calves.” Therefore, I am not going to go with him anymore:
(Take this stick and blanket of yours. I will not mind the cows anymore)
Mother Yashoda scolds Balram and asks him to stop such mischief. She advises them to behave properly.
The Gopis say, “Instead of respecting him, we have insulted him repeatedly. We have abused him harshly by branding him a ‘liar’ and a ‘cheat’. Krishna overlooked our insulting ways and loved us always.”
“A child often looks at us angrily if we blame him as a cheater or a liar. But here, Lord Shree Krishna showers us his majesty and eternal pleasure for such misbehaviour of the Gopis”:
(Lord Shiva and Lord Brahma worship His divine majesty. The Vedas have proclaimed their inability to describe his glory and majesty. We are the most ignorant of fools to have taken him as an ordinary lover.)