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are no obstructions there. So the bhaktas take up the idea of a girl who is in love with her own beloved man, and her mother or father or husband, objecting and obstructing the course of her love, the more is her love tending to grow in strength. The author of the Sreemad-Bhagavat has dealt with this sort of love-representation, in trying to relate the love of the Gopis towards Krishna, whom by divine illumination, they knew to be the incarnated Lord of the universe. Human language cannot describe how Krishna was, in the groves of Brinda, intensely, madly loved-how at the sound of His voice all the ever-blessed Gopis rushed out to meet Him, forgetting this world and its ties, its duties, its joys and its sorrows !
Man, oh man, you speak of divine love and as the same time are able to attend to all the vanities of this world are you sincere ?
Where Rama is, there is no room for any desire and where there is any desire, there is
