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Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana: Book 10: Chapter 82: Verses 39-46
When Sri Balarama and Sri Krsna had not even seen their parents and their father left them under your care, you protected them even as the eye-lashes protect the eyes. You gave them nourishment, protection and loving caresses and performed propitiatory rites for their welfare. In fact, you did all the duty of parents to them. Under your care, they had no cause, of fear from anyone. (It was but meet and proper for you to treat them as your own children, for) noble souls like you make no distinction between one who is their own and one who is not so. (0 consort of Nanda! you and your husband both are really great souls.") Sri Suka went on : (Pariksit I I have already told you that the highest object of the Gopis' love was Bhagavan Sri Krsna.) When seeing Him, they used to curse the Creator for having provided their eyes with eye-lashes (which interrupted their vision by falling every moment). Seeing the Lord, for whom they had cherished such intense longing, after such a long time, they all ushered Him into their heart through ( the gateway of) the eyes and holding Him in close embrace mentally became one with Him. The state of oneness with the Lord attained by them through Love was not within the easy reach of even those who are ever united with Him through meditation. When the Almighty Lord (Bhagavan Sri Krsna) found the Gopis in that state (of absorption), He saw them in private, embraced them, enquired after their health and smilingly said as follows:- " (Dear) friends, for the service of our people, We had to go (out of Vraja and leaving friends like you) had to engage ourselves in destroying enemies.
Do you still remember Us who have been out of sight for a long time? I hope you do not entertain a low opinion of us, considering us as ungrateful? (You will be unfair to Me, if you do so.) It is God's will that unites or disunites beings. Just as the wind brings together or scatters clouds, blades of grass, flakes of cotton, particles of dust, even so the Creator brings together or scatters beings of His creation. Friends, it is a matter for congratulation that you have developed that ( transcendental) Love for Me, which (automatically) leads to My realization; and I need not tell you that loving devotion to Me brings immortality to all who practise it. I am the beginning and end of all beings and pervade them both inside and outside, even as the elements, viz., the earth, water, air, fire and ether constitute the beginning and end of all material objects and pervade them both inside and outside, 0 fair ones!
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