– Krsna needed to finish His activities (mainly killing the demons).
– Srimati Radhika said to Uddhava: “Let Him complete His purpose before returning.”
– “Oh gopis, please be patient, think that I am already there.” Don’t press too hard for Krsna to return.
– Krsna was very harsh in His words, telling the queens of Dvaraka that they were not qualified to be His wives and that He had only married them because they slightly resembled the vraja-gopis.
– Rukmini wrote a letter to Krsna saying: “the lion’s food is going to the jackal.”
– Rukmini’s marriage to Sisupal was being arranged.
– Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada took sannyasa without going through the grhastha stage because he never found a qualified wife.
– The queens of Dvaraka themselves desire to feel attachment to the lotus feet of the gopis.
– On the eighteenth time Jarasandha attacked in Mathura, Krsna went to Dvaraka.
– Child marriage, under the age of eighteen, is forbidden according to the scriptures.
– Krsna stayed seventeen years in Mathura and then, at eighteen, He married in Dvaraka.
– When Krsna married Satyabhama, she requested that an artificial Vrndavana and a tribhanga-lalita Deity of Sri Krsna be built.
– Satyabhama is a representation of Radha, and Rukmini of Candravali.
– Vrnda-devi in Dvaraka is Navavrnda.
