Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 11 - Chapter 1 - Verse 46

Sanskrit:

सुदुस्त्यजस्‍नेहवियोगकातरोन शक्नुवंस्तं परिहातुमातुर: ।कृच्छ्रं ययौ मूर्धनि भर्तृपादुकेबिभ्रन्नमस्कृत्य ययौ पुन: पुन: ॥ ४६ ॥

ITRANS:

su-dustyaja-sneha-viyoga-kātarona śaknuvaṁs taṁ parihātum āturaḥkṛcchraṁ yayau mūrdhani bhartṛ-pādukebibhran namaskṛtya yayau punaḥ punaḥ

Translation:

Greatly fearing separation from Him for whom he felt such indestructible affection, Uddhava was distraught, and he could not give up the Lord’s company. Finally, feeling great pain, he bowed down to the Lord again and again, placed the slippers of his master upon his head, and departed.

Purport:

According to the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (3.4.5), while Uddhava was enroute to Badarikāśrama he heard about the Lord’s journey to Prabhāsa. Turning back and following Lord Kṛṣṇa from behind, he saw the Lord alone just after the withdrawal of the Yadu dynasty. After being again mercifully instructed by the Personality of Godhead (along with Maitreya, who had just arrived), Uddhava felt his knowledge of the truth reawaken, and then, by the order of the Lord, he went on his way.