Night pastimes Prema Bhajan in direct contact Great devoutness to complete realized state or to highest objective—‘Prema-bhakti’

8th Verse of Sri Shikashastaka

Excessive subservience to Krishna alone

āśliṣya vā pāda-ratāṁ pinaṣṭu mām
adarśanān marma-hatāṁ karotu vā
yathā tathā vā vidadhātu lampaṭo
mat-prāna-nāthas tu sa eva nāparaḥ

Jewel amongst all beloved gopis Srimati Radhika’s apophthegm—Sri Krishna can crush this maid servant, devoted to His Lotus Feet, by firmly embracing me or mortifying me anywhere and everywhere by His profligate behavior with any of His beloved gopis, yet He is my dearest beloved and nobody else. In this context, it will be relevant to go through one verse of Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita (Antya lila 20/52), written by Srila Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami:

nā gaṇi āpana dukha, sabe vāñchi tāra sukha,
tāra sukha āmāro tātparya,
more yadi diyā dukha, tāra hailo mahāsukha,
sei dukha mora sukhavarjya

Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, accepting the mode of worship and form of Radharani, with extreme separation grief, has stated thus—Radharani’s apophthegm. Only Radharani can speak like this—“I do not consider my own grief, I only want His contentment, my purpose is His satisfaction. If by giving suffering to me, He becomes very happy, that distress to me will be my highest contentment.” Nobody on earth can inflict suffering to any person who is well-established in such thought or at least sincerely endeavoring to attain such state of mind.

Indication of night pastimes of RadhaKrishna

tāv utkau labdha-saṅgau bahu-paricaraṇair vṛndayārādhyamānau
preṣṭhālībhir lasantau vipina-viharaṇair gāna-rāsādilāsyaiḥ
nānā-līlā-nitāntau praṇaya-sahacarḥ vṛnda-saṁsevyamānau
radha-krishnau niśāyāṁ sukusuma-śayane prāpta-nidrau smarāmi
(Govinda-lila-amrita, 22/1)

Only dearest confidantes are entitled to enter into the night pastimes of RadhaKrishna. Sakhis always try for the union of RadhaKrishna. Actually, RadhaKrishna are very much eager for mutual union at night. When RadhaKrishna’s union is manifested, Vrinda Devi with dearest sakhis worship RadhaKrishna in various ways. After that RadhaKrishna with those sakhis move in the forest, sing songs, do Rasalila with dancing etc. When RadhaKrishna, by doing so much pastimes become extremely fatigued, most beloved sakhis serve them nicely and at the end, make nice bed with flowers where RadhaKrishna make the pastimes of sleep. I remember such sweet pastimes of RadhaKrishna.

Our Revered Guruvargas used to caution us by saying—only eligible votaries can remember the pastimes of RadhaKrishna of mid-day at Radhakunda, dusk pastimes and night pastimes of Rasalila.