Verse 6: The Severity of Nāmāparādha

…Kṛṣṇa and Baladeva could understand what was going on, and in this way, the gopīs inspired the two brothers to wrestle with each other. Kṛṣṇa and Baladeva were naked, and stood opposite each other. They began to slap Their thighs and chests like adult wrestlers. Then They caught hold of each other and tried to bring each other to the ground. They were equally matched and sometimes Baladeva would almost defeat Kṛṣṇa but then, Kṛṣṇa would turn just in time to defeat Baladeva…

And only a great, perfected personality who is ragatmika, or a devotee who is in the final stage of raganuga-sadhana, will understand the prema of the gopis. Even devotees such as Bhisma who were contemporary with them could not fully understand the exalted nature of their prema. Only those who were near them could understand something of it. For instance, Uddhava had to leave Dvaraka and go to Vraja to understand something about how exalted the gopis were; if he had remained in Dvaraka, he would have never understood…