It was night. Vrajanātha had completed his bhajana for that. day. Putting his hari-nāma - mālā aside, he fell asleep. Vijaya Kumāra had honored prasāda, and lay on his bed, but sleep would not come, for he was absorbed in thought. At first he had the
idea that Goloka and Gokula were different places. Now, however,
he concluded that Goloka and Gokula are non-different. The
root of parakīya-rasa is in Goloka. But how can Kṛṣṇa be upapati (paramour) there? He could not comprehend this point.
“If Kṛṣṇa is the supreme substance,” he thought, “and śakti
and śaktimān are non-different, even if śakti becomes separated from śaktimān, how can śakti be called paroḍhā (married to a
gopa other than Kṛṣṇa), and Kṛṣṇa be called upapati (paramour)?”
At first he thought, “Tomorrow I will ask Śrī Gurudeva the question and have my doubt removed,” but then he thought, “It
would be improper to ask Gurudeva anything further about
Goloka. Still, it must be cleared.”
Pondering in this way, he finally fell asleep. While asleep, he dreamt that he was in the presence of his gurudeva, and in order
to vanquish his doubt, he was asking the very question that had