Young Radha (the Divine Beloved of Krishna) is complaining about Her big brother now, and Her complaints are not without merit. He does do all of those things, as big brothers are bound to do. Big brothers also get a lot of pleasure out of teasing their younger sisters.
So Shreedama (elder brother of Radha in this leela) also liked to tease young Lali (affectionate name for Radha). Like, in fact, in the very next pad kirtan, (devotional song) in this section, Radha comes back and tells mother Kirti (Radha’s mother) after an incident,
“I don’t want Shreedama to be My brother anymore! I’m not making him My brother anymore!”
Like She’s decided, and it’s final,
“He’s not my brother!”
Why? What happened? So She’s telling Maiya (mother),
“You know, I always go and play in those kunj (flower groves) with My friends!”
Young Radha, five- or six-year-old Radha, She would go and play with the other gopis (cowherd girls) of the same age. So on this particular day, Shreedama went ahead. He was alone. He went ahead, and he had a black blanket with him, and he hid in the bushes on the edge of the kunj where they couldn’t see him, and he covered himself completely in that black blanket.
And when Radha and Her friends got there and They started playing, after some time he started making some noises, some scary noises, like there was some monster nearby. So Radha and Her friends started getting worried, and then all of a sudden he started standing up, and he was covered in the black blanket. So while he was making all those scary noises, he started standing up, and then Radha and Her friends just started running as fast as they could, and he was yelling,
“I’m going to eat all of you!”
And he’s running after them. So Lali told her mother,
“Mother, we ran and ran as fast as we could! We were afraid for our lives, and when we couldn’t run anymore, we were about to fall down out of exhaustion, then he threw off the blanket and said,
“It’s only me, your brother!”
“So you see, Mother, this kind of thing happens all the time, and he teases us so much! So I don’t want him to be my brother anymore!”
So in that particular case, Kirti said to her daughter,
“It’s okay, I’ll take care of him. He’ll have to come around sooner or later. He’ll get hungry, he’ll want some roti (flatbread) and butter or something. So when he comes around, then I’ll take care of him.”
So in that case, Lali was pacified. She said,
“Okay, good! Brother’s going to get some punishment!”
But here in this case, the brother is complaining about Lali that she never plays with me,
“She’s always playing with that dark-complexioned son of Yashoda (Krishna’s foster mother), Maiya!”
And then Lali comes back with her own argument,
“So Mother, you see, he’s always teasing me, mocking me, pinching me, showing his teeth to Me, trying to scare Me!”
So this type of back and forth is going on between Lali and her older brother Shreedama. So in the end, Shree Kripaluji Maharaj comes and he explaines to Lali and Shreedama that brother and sister shouldn’t fight. They should get along.
And that’s how this leela ends.
