Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 10.21.20

evam-vidha bhagavato

ya vrndavana-carinah

varnayantyo mitho gopyah

kridas tan-mayatam yayuh

SYNONYMS

evam-vidhah -- such; bhagavatah -- of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; yah -- which; vrndavana-carinah -- who was wandering in the Vrndavana forest; varnayantyah -- engaged in describing; mithah -- among one another; gopyah -- the gopis; kridah -- the pastimes; tat-mayatam -- fullness in ecstatic meditation upon Him; yayuh -- they attained.

TRANSLATION

Thus narrating to one another the playful pastimes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as He wandered about in the Vrndavana forest, the gopis became fully absorbed in thoughts of Him.

PURPORT

In this regard Srila Prabhupada comments, "This is the perfect example of Krsna consciousness: to somehow or other remain always engrossed in thoughts of Krsna. The vivid example is always present in the behavior of the gopis; therefore Lord Caitanya declared that no one can worship the Supreme Lord by any method that is better than the method of the gopis. The gopis were not born in very high brahmana or ksatriya families; they were born in the families of vaisyas, and not in big mercantile communities but in the families of cowherd men. They were not very well educated, although they heard all sorts of knowledge from the brahmanas, the authorities of Vedic knowledge. The gopis' only purpose was to remain always absorbed in thoughts of Krsna."

Thus end the purports of the humble servants of His Divine Grace A . C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada to the Tenth Canto, Twenty-first Chapter, of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled "The Gopis Glorify the Song of Krsna's Flute."

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