Jatila, Radhika's mother-in-law, bids her worship Suryadeva. Kundalata brings a priest: "I could hardly find a brahmin — I had to go all the way to Mathura! But here is the best of brahmacharis, a disciple of Gargacharya himself, praised by every scholar of the Vedas." And it is Krishna in disguise. They enter the temple, the puja begins: the mysterious brahmin passes the articles and gives Radhika mantras to repeat — "Om Kamadaya namaha." Obediently she says them after him. But each mantra has a double floor: they truly mean — "I offer myself to my beloved, to fulfil his every desire." Jatila watches, delighted: "What a fine puja! So many mantras! O best of brahmanas, my son Abhimanyu will give you a million cows; live long and free of care — I pray to Suryadeva for it." And she holds out gold to the priest. Krishna: "I serve only from duty, I want no reward… well, never mind, I'll take it." The guarding mother-in-law cannot praise the puja enough — never knowing whose vows her daughter-in-law has just spoken aloud.