Fwd: About the Gopis, Their Divine Love and Divine Form

December 9, 2007

Hare Krsna That love that is capable of giving immense joy and bliss to God is not in qualities and attributes, but is in that which is without qualities and attributes. God who is without qualities and attributes, is craving for that Love, than how can that love be with qualities and attributes ? Just like God's body is divine, it is not with qualities, similarly the body of the Gopis had also become divine. There was no remaining traces of qualities and attributes in the Gopis. Even God with form does not possess qualities such as sattva (purity), rajas (passion), and tamas (inertia); yet He possesses divine qualities such as glories, sweetness, beauty, generosity etc. Therefore worship of God with a form, is also expressed as worship of the formless. Just like it is said "Manniketam tu nirgunam," (Srimad Bhagvat 11:25:25). "Matsevaayaam Tu Nirgunaa" (Srimad Bhagvat 11:25:27). etc. By worshipping God,

one becomes free of qualities. The point is that on having a relationship with God, the sattva (purity), rajas (passion) and tamas (inertia), qualities do not remain. That is, the bodies that were in "Raaslila", those bodies were not like our bodies with qualities, rather they were like God's divine body, free of the three gunas (attributes - sattva, rajas and tamas). In other words they were divine. All the Gopis that had participated in the Raaslila per Lord's wishes and they had gone there only after taking on a form filled with divine expressions. Therefore the husbands of the Gopis saw their bodies with qualities and attributes sleeping next to them in their homes. "Manyamaanaah svapaarshvasthaan swaan swaan daaraan vrajaukasah, " (Srimad Bhagwat 10:33:38). The point is that those Gopis that did not feel the fire of deep longing and feeling of separation, their bodies with attributes remained next to their husbands, but just like one who has attained

salvation, there was no relationship left with the body, simply there was awareness of the body. Whereas those Gopis that had intense fire and feeling of separation, they were totally unaware of their bodies with qualities, therefore where does the question arise about them having a relationship with their bodies, because for them from time immemorable there was no relationship with qualities and attributes, which are the main cause of birth and death.

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