Rukmini’s secret love letter to Krishna :
Oh Krishna, you are the epitome of beauty and your qualities are renowned for their ability to enter the ears of those who hear, relieving them of bodily distress. Your beauty is known to fulfill all visual desires. Having heard of both, I have shamelessly fixed my mind upon you.
You are incomparable in lineage, character, beauty, knowledge, youthfulness, wealth, and influence. You delight the minds of all mankind, and what girl of good family, aristocratic, sober-minded, and marriageable, would not choose you as her husband when the time is right?
Thus, dear Lord, I surrender myself to you and have chosen you as my husband. Please come quickly and make me your wife. Let me not fall into the hands of Sishupala, who is like a jackal stealing the property of a lion.
If I have worshiped the Supreme Lord through pious works, sacrifices, charity, rituals, vows, and the worship of demigods, brahmanas, and gurus, then may you come and take my hand, not Damaghosa’s son (Sishupala) or anyone else.
Tomorrow, as my marriage ceremony is about to begin, you should arrive unseen in Vidarbha and surround yourself with the leaders of your army. Crush the forces of Caidya (Sishupala) and Magadhendra (Jarasandha) and marry me in the Rakshasa style, winning me with your valor.
You may wonder how to carry me away without killing my relatives since I will be staying in the inner chambers of the palace. But I have a solution: the day before the marriage, there is a grand procession to honor the royal family’s deity, and the new bride goes outside the city to visit Goddess Girija (Ambika).
O lotus-eyed one, great souls like Lord Shiva yearn to bathe in the dust of your lotus feet and thereby destroy their ignorance. If I cannot obtain your mercy, I shall give up my life, weakened by the severe penances I will perform. Then, after hundreds of lifetimes of endeavor, I may finally obtain your mercy.