In this way the circular dance is once again performed.  The full moon pours down, the cowgirls deck themselves and songs rise in the air.  Flutes and drums play and in the midst of the throng Balarama sings and dances, clasping the cowgirls to him, making love and rousing them to ecstasy.  Night after night the dance is performed, while each day Balarama comforts Nanda and Yasoda with news of Krishna.  One night as his visit is ending, he feels exhausted and commands the river Jumna to change its course and bathe him with its water.  The Jumna fails to comply, so Balarama draws the river towards him with his plough and bathes in its stream.  From that time on, the Jumna’s course is changed.  His exhaustion now leaves him and he gratifies the cowgirls with fresh passion.  With this incident his visit ends.  He bids farewell to Nanda, Yasoda and the cowgirls and leaving the forest returns to Dwarka.

Krishna’s relations with the cowgirls are now completely ended, but on one last occasion he happens to meet them.  News has come that the sun will soon be eclipsed and accordingly, Krishna and Balarama take the Yadavas on pilgrimage.  They choose a certain holy place, Kurukshetra, and assembling all their queens and wives, make the slow journey to it.  When they arrive, a festival is in progress.  They bathe and make offerings.  While they are still encamped, other kings come in, including the Pandavas and Kauravas.  With them are their wives and families and Kunti, the mother of the Pandavas, is thus enabled to meet once more her brother, Vasudeva, the father of Krishna.  A little later, Nanda and Yasoda along with the cowherds and cowgirls also arrive.  They have come on the same pilgrimage and finding Krishna there, at once throng to see him.  Vasudeva greets his old friend, Nanda, and recalls the now long-distant days when Krishna had lived with him in his house.  Krishna and Balarama greet Nanda and Yasoda with loving respect, while the cowgirls are excited beyond description.  Krishna however refuses to regard them and faced with their ardent looks and impassioned adoration, addresses to them the following sermon.  ’Whoever believes in me shall be fearlessly carried across the sea of life.  You gave me your bodies, minds and wealth.  You loved me with a love that knew no limit.  No one has been so fortunate as you—­neither Brahma nor Indra, neither any other god nor any man.  For all along I have been living in you, loving you with a love that has never faltered.  I live in everyone.  What I say to you cannot easily be understood, but as light, water, fire, earth and air abide in the body, so does my glory.’  To the cowgirls such words strike chill.  But there is nothing they can say and when the festival is over, Krishna and the Yadavas return to Dwarka, while Nanda with the cowherds and cowgirls go back to Brindaban.  This is the last time Krishna sees them.