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Bhagavat Purana - Series Three
 
Plate 5 - Reunion On a Moonlit Night  

 

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tabhir vidhuta-shokabhir
bhagavan acyuto vrtah
vyarocatadhikam tata
purushah shaktibhir yatha
Srimad Bhagavatam 10.32.10

Translation:
Encircled by the gopis, who were now relieved of all distress, Lord Acyuta, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, shone forth splendidly. My dear King, Krsna thus appeared like the Supersoul encircled by His spiritual potencies.

Commentary: by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The gopis are Lord Krsna's internal potency, and therefore when they were relieved and happy again the Lord shone forth even more brilliantly than before, and His transcendental bliss increased. Krsna loves the gopis with pure transcendental love, and they love Him in the same pure way.

The whole affair, conducted on the transcendental platform, is inconceivable to those bound in material existence.

tah samadaya kalindya
nirvishya pulinaà vibhuh
vikasat-kunda-mandara
surabhy-anila-shatpadam
sharac-candrsmshu-sandoha
dhvasta-dosa-tamah shivam
krishnaya hasta-tarala
cita-komala-valukam
SB 10.32.11-12

The almighty Lord then took the gopis with Him to the bank of the Kalindi, who with the hands of her waves had scattered piles of soft sand upon the shore. In that auspicious place the breeze, bearing the fragrance of blooming kunda and mandara flowers, attracted many bees, and the abundant rays of the autumn moon dispelled the darkness of night.