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Kṛṣṇa was very expert in playing the flute, and the gopīs were captivated by the sound vibration, which One of the gopīs told her friends, “The highest perfection of the eyes is to see Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma entering

Another gopī expressed her opinion that Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, while tending the cows with the cowherd boys One gopī told her friends, “How is it Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma are looking so beautiful?” of us gopīs?” Kṛṣṇa sometimes kisses the gopīs; therefore the transcendental nectar of His lips is available only to engaged in enjoying the nectar from Kṛṣṇa’s lips?

While Kṛṣṇa was engaged in tending the cows in the forest of Vṛndāvana or on Govardhana Hill, the gopīs of Kṛṣṇa. The vivid example is always present in the behavior of the gopīs; therefore Lord Caitanya declared that no one can worship the Supreme Lord by any method which is better than the method of the gopīs. The gopīs’ only purpose was to remain always absorbed in thoughts of Kṛṣṇa.

Another gopī said, “My dear friends, just see the deer! Although they are dumb animals, they have approached the son of Mahārāja Nanda, Kṛṣṇa. Not only are they attracted by the dress of Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, but as soon as they hear the playing The gopīs were envious of the deer because the deer were able to offer their service to Kṛṣṇa along with The gopīs thought themselves not so fortunate because whenever they wanted to go to Kṛṣṇa, their husbands

Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the twenty-first chapter of Kṛṣṇa, “The Gopīs Attracted by the

Another gopī said, “Everything appears wonderful when Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma travel in the forest of Vṛndāvana When Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma play on Their transcendental flutes, the moving creatures become stunned and These are the wonderful reactions to the vibration of the transcendental flutes of Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma

Another gopī said, “My dear friends, Kṛṣṇa is so nicely dressed that He appears to be the impetus to traveling in the air in their airplanes, enjoying the company of their husbands, on hearing the sound of Kṛṣṇa’s This means that the transcendental sound of the flute of Kṛṣṇa extended to all corners of the universe Also, it is significant that the gopīs knew about the different kinds of airplanes flying in the sky.

Persons who are constantly engaged in the transcendental meditation of seeing Kṛṣṇa, internally and externally Samādhi (trance) means absorption of all the activities of the senses in a particular object, and the gopīs indicate that the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa are the perfection of all meditation and samādhi. It is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā that anyone who is always absorbed in the thought of Kṛṣṇa is the

At that time Kṛṣṇa entered the forest of Vṛndāvana with the cows and cowherd boys. While the birds, trees and plants were all looking very happy, Kṛṣṇa, tending the cows and accompanied After hearing the vibration of the flute of Kṛṣṇa, the gopīs in Vṛndāvana remembered Him and began to talk amongst themselves about how nicely Kṛṣṇa was playing His flute. When the gopīs were describing the sweet vibration of Kṛṣṇa’s flute, they also remembered their pastimes

Another gopī spoke thus to her friends about Kṛṣṇa: “Dear friends, our Vṛndāvana is proclaiming the glories Although the gopīs were village cowherd women and girls, they had extensive Vedic knowledge.

Another gopī began to praise the unique position of Govardhana Hill in this way: “How fortunate is this Govardhana Hill, for it is enjoying the association of Lord Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, who are accustomed to And because Govardhana Hill is so obliged to Lord Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, it is supplying different kinds

Another gopī said to her friends, “My dear friends, the cows are also charmed as soon as they hear the transcendental sound of the flute of Kṛṣṇa. struck with devotion, and tears glide down from their eyes, illustrating vividly how they are embracing Kṛṣṇa These phenomena indicate that even the cows and calves in Vṛndāvana knew how to cry for Kṛṣṇa and embrace Actually, the perfection of Kṛṣṇa consciousness can be culminated in the shedding of tears from the eyes

Another young gopī told her mother, “My dear Mother, the birds, who are all looking at Kṛṣṇa playing From their features it appears that they have forgotten everything and are engaged only in hearing Kṛṣṇa’s This proves that they are not ordinary birds; they are great sages and devotees, and just to hear Kṛṣṇa’s Through the knowledge of the Vedas, Kṛṣṇa has to be understood. of these birds, it appeared that they were great scholars in Vedic knowledge and that they took to Kṛṣṇa’s

they smeared their faces and breasts with the dust of Vṛndāvana, which was reddish from the touch of Kṛṣṇa’s When they came out into the midst of the forest, they saw that while Kṛṣṇa was walking some of the leaves His lotus feet are held by the gopīs on their breasts, which are smeared with kuṅkuma powder, but when Kṛṣṇa travels in the Vṛndāvana forest with Balarāma and His boyfriends, the reddish powder falls on So the lusty aborigine girls, while looking toward Kṛṣṇa playing His flute, saw the reddish kuṅkuma on

Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma carried binding ropes on Their shoulders and in Their hands, just like ordinary cowherd almost always hangs from the shoulders of cowherd boys, and it was not absent from the shoulders of Kṛṣṇa

sunshine was sometimes intolerable, and therefore the clouds in the sky appeared in sympathy above Kṛṣṇa The clouds served as a soothing umbrella over Their heads just to make friendship with Kṛṣṇa.

because the waters were thinking, “How is it that our son, the bamboo rod, is enjoying the nectar of Kṛṣṇa’s