Next, the poet says Sakala-adbhuta-keli-sima – “He is the height of all amazing love sports.”

What is a love-sport?

‘Keli’ or ‘love- sport’ is Sri Krishna’s playful pastime with the Vrajadevis who are full of sweet ras.  It consists of erotic ras.

When Srila Bilwamangal Thâkur saw Sri Krishna’s Mahâ-Râs with three hundred crores of Gopis, he said –”it is the height of all amazing sports.” The Râs-dance is indeed the height of love sports.  Sri Goursundar said –

“Sri Krishna sported with Râdhikâ and the other Gopis.  He relished the essence of ras to His heart’s content.  He fulfilled His adolescence with pastimes such as Râs–leelâ.”

–  [Sri Chaitanya-Charitâmrita.Âdi.8.101-102]

All the leelâs of Vraja are sweet. Even if Sri Krishna displays His majesty in Vrajadhâm, the Brijwâsis are so loving that they relish sweetness even in His majesty.  However, Râs–leelâ is so sweet that Sri Krishna loses Himself completely every time He thinks about it.

(Sri Krishna said) – “Although I have performed various attractive leelâs, whenever I think of Râs–leelâ, something happens in my heart – I too cannot understand this.”

The memory of Râs–leelâ enchants the Râs–nayikâs (heroines of the Râs dance, the Gopis) as well.  When Sri Krishna dispatched His friend Uddhav to console the Gopis during those painful days of viraha, the virahini Vrajabâlâs had asked Uddhav-

‘O Uddhav! It is possible that Your Master has forgotten us after gaining new company in Mathura, but does He remember the nights of the Râs-dance?  Those nights – the memory of which – makes the heart restless with indescribable madness?  On that night the full moon had arisen, the moonbeams were cascading from the sky all over Vrindâvan. 

In the Yamuna the kumud^[1], kamal^[2] and kahlâr^[3] had bloomed and the blue water of Yamuna had turned white.  The woods of Vrindavan were agog with Kunda, Mallikâ, Jâti and Juthi (all white flowers) turning dark Vrindavan into white. 

In that romantic Vrindâvan the Râs-dance took place with hundreds of crores of Vrajabâlâs.  During the Râs-dance, their anklets, kinkini^[4] and bangles jingled so sweetly that they put to shame the musical instruments. 

O best of the Yadus!  All those damsels with whom He had performed the Râs are no more, for it is impossible that they could be suffering so much”.

– [Srimad-Bhâgavatam10.47.43]

The Gopis who are saying this are those same Râs-nâyikâs, but they are speaking in this manner, since they are lost in the sweet memory of Râs–leelâ.  Hence, we can very well conclude that Râs–nâyka^[5] Sri Krishna is the ‘height of all amazing love-sports’.