When Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī left this world, Raghunātha Dāsa Gosvāmī, who had received his mercy, fell into an ocean of grief and could find no place for himself. He prays: O Rūpa Gosvāmī, without you the whole world is an empty, desolate wasteland. All this Vraja-maṇḍala gave me so much joy, but now you are not here, and it is empty. He cannot even look at Girirāja Govardhana: the hill seems to him the gaping mouth of a python, coming to swallow him.