So Madhavendra Puri and all the Brijvasis were very conscious that poor Gopal, He was in the heat and the cold, the winds and the rains. No one gave Him any food. No one gave Him any water for so many days. So to satisfy Him, to please Him, they were preparing enormous amounts of prasad. Enormous amounts of scented water. Wonderful wonderful bathing ceremony. It was all done in this consciousness that He's a person. He's the Supreme Person - Puroshattam. He's the beloved of our hearts - the beloved of our lives. And our perfection and our pleasure in life is only to the extent that we can please Him. Of course this consciousness originates in Srimati Radharani. She's the Bhakta Rupa. She's the personification and the storehouse of all love and devotion. And it is through her that this spirit of complete sacrifice and love for the pleasure of Govinda originates. Radha is non different than Krishna. They are the one Supreme Person. Krishna is the supreme object of love and Sri Radharani is the supreme lover. So therefore, great souls like Madhavendra Puri they are by the mercy of Radharani empowered with this spirit of hers in minute portion. Just as the jivatma is part and parcel of Krishna, all bhakti, all devotion, all love is part and parcel of the supreme whole of Sri Radhika's love - which is simply, how to satisfy Krishna? How to please Krishna in the most personal and wonderful way. How Gopal ate everything that was offered - mountains of food.
