Krishna Steals the Clothes of the Gopis
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A popular episode from the story of Krishna’s youthful years at Vrindavan, known as Gopi Vastraharana (‘theft of the gopi’s clothes’), recounts his playful theft of the clothes of the female cowherds, the gopis, who had left their clothes on the Yamuna River bank while bathing. Krishna placed them high in the branches of a tree, in which he is seen perched, daring the gopis to venture from the water. Metaphorically, this story serves to convey the power of devotion, to stand vulnerable before one’s God, secure in the power of bhakti, the unquestioning devotion to one’s god.
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