{"id":16,"date":"2008-07-22T09:21:03","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T09:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2008-07-30T14:57:26","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T14:57:26","slug":"the-extraordinary-love-of-the-gopis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/sweet_books\/analytical_study_of_love\/the-extraordinary-love-of-the-gopis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Extraordinary Love of the Gopis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sri Chaitanya-Charit\u00e2mrita answers \u2013<\/p>\n

“The Gopis have an extraordinary mood and it is inconceivable. When the Gopis see Sri Krishna, they do not wish for happiness, yet their joy is infinite. Their pleasure is millions of times greater than the joy that Sri Krishna feels on seeing them. Although they do not desire happiness it increases manifold. Is this not contradictory? We have only one solution of this riddle \u2013 The Gopik\u00e2s joy lies in pleasing Sri Krishna; when He sees them His exultation increases and this makes Him incomparably sweet. When the Gopik\u00e2 sees that Sri Krishna is joyous on seeing her, she feels all the more blissful, which makes her prettier. This in turn makes Sri Krishna jubilant and thus He looks more handsome than ever. In this manner both start competing with one another. However Sri Krishna is pleased with the beauty and excellent qualities of the Gopis, while the Gopis are happy simply to give Him pleasure. This is the reason why the love of the Gopis is not tainted with lust.\u201d \u2013 (C.C.Aadi.4.185-195)<\/p>\n

Thus we discover that the Gopis love is absolutely flawless. Even though they may wish to make love to Sri Krishna it is only with the intention to please Him. Their love is unobstructed. Their love reveals all about Sri Krishna. Therefore He has admitted to Arjun \u2013<\/p>\n

“O P\u00e2rtha, only the Gopik\u00e2s truly know my glory, my sev\u00e2, my wish and my deepest moods; no one else knows like they do.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is why Sri Krishna is completely subjugated by the conjugal love of the Gopis.<\/p>\n

“Sri Bhagav\u00e2n states that Gopi-prem subjugates Sri Krishna completely and this love makes Sri Krishna available to the devotee in His most complete form.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 (C.C.Madhya.8.88)<\/p>\n

“Sri Krishna told the Gopik\u00e2s on the night of the raas-dance \u2013 My dear Gopis, the chords that bind a woman to the house is unbreakable, yet you have cut it asunder and have adored me selflessly. I will never be able to repay your debt. Your goodness is alone is the reward for your love.\u201d \u2013 (S.B.10.32.22)<\/p>\n

The Gopik\u00e2s have mah\u00e2bh\u00e2v and Srimati R\u00e2dh\u00e2r\u00e2ni is the best of them.<\/p>\n

Srila Vishwan\u00e2th Chakravartip\u00e2d has written \u2013 “Based on the amount, we can classify love into 4 categories \u2013<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. minute<\/li>\n
  2. relatively little more than minute,<\/li>\n
  3. great,<\/li>\n
  4. extremely great<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    A s\u00e2dhak has minute love and he is able to subjugate Sri Krishna to a minute degree. Sages such as N\u00e2rad and Vy\u00e2s have little more love than this and they subordinate Sri Krishna proportionally. The Vrajav\u00e2sis have great love while Srimati R\u00e2dh\u00e2r\u00e2ni has extremely great love. Thus Srimati R\u00e2dh\u00e2r\u00e2ni binds Him the most.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Sri Chaitanya-Charit\u00e2mrita answers \u2013 “The Gopis have an extraordinary mood and it is inconceivable. When the Gopis see Sri Krishna, they do not wish for happiness, yet their joy is infinite. Their pleasure is millions of times greater than the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,11,3,10,6],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytical_study_of_love","tag-chaitanya-mahaprabhu","tag-krishna","tag-love","tag-radha","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunjeshwari.com\/sweetblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}