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The Lila of the Gopis
The lila of the Gopis seems to be conceived as something which is always
going on in a divine Gokul and which projected itself in an earthly
Brindavan and can always be realised and its meaning made actual in the
soul. It is to be presumed that the writers of the Puranas took it as having
been actually projected on earth in the life of the incarnate Krishna and it
has always been so accepted by the religious mind of India.
(CWSA, 28: 483-484)
The Gopis are not ordinary people in the proper sense of the word—they
are extraordinary by their extremeness of love, passionate devotion,
unreserved self-giving. Whoever has that, however humble his position
in other respects, learning, external sanctity etc. etc., can easily follow
after Krishna and reach him; that seems to me the sense of the symbol of
the Gopis. There are many other significances, of course—that is only one
among the many.
(CWSA, 29: 493)
