Uddhava's Lesson in Vrindavan

He went to teach them, and they taught him instead.

The errand

Krishna had been gone from Vrindavan a long time before he finally sent anyone back.

And he did not go himself. He sent Uddhava - his closest friend and minister, and a man as learned in scripture as anyone at the Dwaraka court.

He was chosen because Krishna trusted him to carry something delicate. An answer, of a kind, to a village that had never stopped waiting.