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selves to be Krishnas, and when they had begun again to think of Him as the one to be worshipped, then they were Gopis again, and immediately. "unto them appeared Krishna with smile on his lotus face, clad in yellow robes and having garlands on, the embodied conqueror (in beauty) of the god of love."*
Now to go back to our Acharya Sankara : “Those," he says, “who by worshipping the qualified Brahman attain conjunction with the Supreme Ruler preserving their individual mind is their glory limited or unlimited ? This doubt arising, we get as an argument : -Their glory should be unlimited, because of the scriptural texts They attain their own kingdom-To him all the gods offer worship’—Their desires are fulfilled in all the worlds.' As an answer to this, Vyasa uses the expression 'without the power of
* तासामाविरभूछौरिः अयमानमुखाम्बुनः । • Matarcrc: erant UNITATE:
-( Bhagabat, X. Ch. 31–2).
