Krishna, now in Mathura, sends Uddhava to console the women of Vraja with talk of the formless god; one of them, speaking to a bee, mocks the messenger; the Bhagavata never names her but commentators and poets made her Radha, and Surdas's Bhramar Geet turns the scene into the gopis' refusal of Uddhava's teaching.
Krishna, in Mathura, sends his friend Uddhava to Vraja with a message: he is never really away from them. Uddhava comes to Nanda's village and the women gather round him. While they talk a bumblebee flies near, and one of them, lost in thought of Krishna, scolds it as his messenger: friend of a cheat, do not touch my feet. Uddhava gives Krishna's teaching and stays some months, and goes back saying their love is greater than his learning. The text never names the woman.
In the songs of Surdas the women take the bee for Uddhava himself, a black thing that flits from flower to flower like Krishna. They laugh at his yoga and his god without a form; they want the cowherd with the flute. Unlike the Bhagavata's women they are not consoled, and the messenger who came to teach goes back taught.