The Gopīs Attracted by the Flute
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creatures. When Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma played on Their transcendental flutes, the moving creatures became stunned and stopped their activities, and the nonmoving living creatures, like trees and plants, began to shiver with ecstasy.
Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma carried binding ropes on Their shoulders and in Their hands, just like ordinary cowherd boys. While milking the cows, the boys bound the hind legs with a small rope. This rope almost always hung from the shoulders of the boys, and it was not absent on the shoulders of Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma. In spite of Their being the Supreme Personality of Godhead, They played exactly like cowherd boys, and therefore everything became wonderful and attractive. While Kṛṣṇa was engaged in tending the cows in the forest of Vṛndāvana or on Govardhana Hill, the  gopīs  in the village were always absorbed in thinking of Him and discussing. His different pastimes. This is the perfect example of Kṛṣṇa consciousness: to somehow or other remain always engrossed in thoughts of Kṛṣṇa. The vivid example is always present in the behavior of the  gopīs ; therefore Lord Caitanya declared that no one can worship the Supreme Lord by any method which is better than the method of the  gopīs . The  gopīs  were not born in very high  brāhmaṇa  or  kṣatriya  families; they were born in the families of  vaiśyas , and not in big mercantile communities but in the families of cowherd men. They were not very well educated, although they heard all sorts of knowledge from the  brāhmaṇas , the authorities of Vedic knowledge. The  gopīs ' only purpose was to remain always absorbed in thoughts of Kṛṣṇa.
Thus ends the Bhaktivedanta purport of the Twenty-first Chapter of Kṛṣṇa, "The Gopīs Attracted by the Flute."