Devaki and Vasudev holding the Divine Baby, a 5th century CE sculpture, Gupta Era.

Parikshit Mahârâj said—“Dear mother! Sri Krishna greeted His mother and addressed brother Baladev with respect. Then He stretched His hand for picnic-food (since He thought it was time He went cattle-grazing with His friends). The intelligent Rohini Devi marked this and said, “Child! Today Your oversleep has made your mother is slightly ill with worry, since You are her only child. So no need to talk too much with her. The Gopa-boys have already left for the woods long with the cattle. Now better You follow them. I will prepare lovely delicacies and send You.” When Sri Krishna heard the loving words of Mother Rohini, He thanked her. He softly stole the butter that Vishwakarma had already placed in Mother Yashoda’s hand, laughed, and called brother Baladev to go to the forest. However seeing that Baladev had already left, He kept the butter to Himself. He did not eat it (since He wanted to share it with His elder brother). In this manner, He took a few steps towards the forest, and then addresed the Gopis in jest. He stopped the cattle using His flute, and stated joking with Srimati Radhikâ Who was surrounded by Her sakhis. HE said, “Dear Beloved of my soul! I am exclusively devoted to You. In spite of getting me in a lonely place like this, why are You not talking to me? Have You gone into mân? Have I committed some aparâdha to Your lotus feet? Oho! I know! You have learnt of my dream of last night! O my darling! I dreamt that I have forsaken You and have gone to some far away place called Dwarakâ. There I married many princesses who were ready to die for me. And that I have got many children and grand children. Anyway, forget all this; now I must hasten to the forest. Today evening, I shall meet You and make You happy”. After narrating hs dream to the statue of Radhikâ and promising Her, Sri Nanda-Nandan plummeted Her with flowers. He looked around surreptitiously, embraced Her and planted a kiss on Her lips. Then He hurried forth and caught up with the other cowherd boys and the cattle.

When Devaki Devi saw this extremely captivating wonderful flute-playing cowherd-form of Sri Krishna, something she had seen before, then although she was old, her breasts started oozing milk. Some of the queens such as Rukmini and Jâmbamati could not bear the onslaught of that extraordinary sweet beauty; they lost all self-control since they were overcome with great love. They fell down unconscious. Old Padmâvati, along with Satyabhâmâ was intoxicated with passion and rushed behind Sri Krishna with stretched arms to catch Him. The intelligent Kâlindi Devi, who is the daughter of the Sun-God, had already experienced Sri Krishna’s Vrindâban-form earlier, hence she managed to control herself, but with much difficulty. She, with Uddhav’s assistance, caught both the crazy women and held them back.

(Commentary – Why did these women go mad on seeing Sri Krishna’s cowherd form, dressed in wild flowers and natural decorations? The answer is that although, Sri Bhagavân is always sweet, the sweetness He expresses else where other than in Vrindâban, is His ordinary sweetness. Srila Rupa Goswâmipâd has written –

Leelâ premnâ priyâdhikyam mâdhurye venu-rupayoh,

Itya-sâdhârananm proktam govindasya chatushtayam.

Meaning – “Sri Bhagavân’s extraordinary sweet beauty, sweet pastimes, sweet flute-song and sweet