Vivekananda Mailing List-8/14/03

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So, when Prahlâda forgot himself, he found neither the universe nor its

cause; all was to him one Infinite, undifferentiated by name and form;

but as soon as he remembered that he was Prahlada, there was the

universe before him and with it the Lord of the universe — " the

Repository of an infinite number of blessed qualities " . So it was with

the blessed Gopis. So long as they had lost sense of their own personal

identity and individuality, they were all Krishnas, and when they began

again to think of Him as the One to be worshipped, then they were Gopis

again, and immediately (Bhagavata ) — " Unto them appeared Krishna with

a smile on His lotus face, clad in yellow robes and having garlands on,

the embodied conqueror (in beauty) of the god of love. "