When Uddhava already had so much knowledge about Krishna, why did Krishna send him to learn from the Vrajavasis?

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Hare Krishna.
Question, why did Krishna send Uddhava to Vrindavan to learn about the love of the Gopis when Uddhava already had so much knowledge about Krishna’s glories? Answer, there are two kinds of knowledge about Krishna. There is Aishwarya Gyan and there is Madhurya Gyan. Aishwarya Gyan means knowledge of Krishna’s greatness and Madhurya Gyan is knowledge of Krishna’s sweetness.
So in one sense, Uddhava’s knowledge was more about Krishna’s greatness. It was not so much about Krishna’s sweetness. Of course, every devotee has experience of Krishna’s sweetness but the special Madhurima, special sweetness that is there in Vraja Bhakti where Krishna is not at all considered to be God.
Krishna is considered to be just a lovable cowherd boy. So that is very special and that Madhurya Gyan is not known to even great souls and that’s why when Brahmaji gets bewildered when he sees Krishna eating the Uchishtam from the mouth of the Gopas, so he sees them taking the same food and sharing it. How can God do this? God has to be offered very pure bhoga.
So just as this Madhurya, Brahmaji cannot understand, so even Uddhava in this Leela, it is described as if Uddhava also does not know. So of course at one level we can say Uddhava is eternal associate of the Lord and Uddhava knows everything but within the past time, the Lord arranges in such a way that Uddhava appears in Dwarka Mathura Leela and in Dwarka Mathura Leela, the sweetness of Vrindavan is not there. So in order to reveal to Uddhava the greatness of Praja Bhakti and through Uddhava to reveal to the Mathura Vasis and the Dwarka Vasis that how great is the glory of the Praja Vasis, Krishna sends Uddhava to Vrindavan.
So Uddhava has knowledge but that knowledge is more of Aishwarya Gyan of Krishna, not Madhurya Gyan. So when Uddhava goes to Vrindavan and first he tries his philosophical instruction to Gopis but then when he sees how great is the love of the Gopis, he says how completely almost like mad women, they are completely absorbed in Krishna. He says this Divyonma, this divine madness, it is supreme perfection of life.
The perfection of yoga after great endeavor and exercise is to fix the mind on Krishna but the Gopis even without any effort their mind is spontaneously and irreversibly, unshakably fixed on Krishna and that’s why he tells the Gopis what you have attained is unparalleled, it’s extraordinary, it’s so exalted and he after seeing that experience, it’s one thing to know theoretically, it’s quite another to know him experientially. That’s why when he experiences how completely devoted to Krishna the Gopis are. We know Yogis meditate to fix the mind on Krishna, the Gopis sometimes do meditation to try to forget Krishna because they think thinking of Krishna is causing us so much agitation.
They say so great is the love of the Gopis that their mind is spontaneously, irreversibly, unshakably fixed on Krishna and that’s why he desires that let me become a shrub in the forest of Vrindavan so that the Gopis will put their feet on the shrub and thereby I will get the dust off their feet. So in this way to reveal to those who have Aishwarya Gyan, the Madhurya Gyan and the glory of those who have Madhurya Gyan, Krishna sends Uddhava to Vrindavan and through this he reveals this beauty, this Aishwarya Gyan to Uddhava and to everyone else who are situated similar to Uddhava, those who are more inclined towards Aishwarya Gyan. Thank you.
Hare Krishna.