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Krṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
“Dear Krṣṇa,” the  gopīs  continued, “You are very cunning. You can imagine how much we are distressed simply by remembering Your cunning smile, Your pleasing glance, Your walking with us in the forest of Vrṇdāvana, and Your auspicious meditations. Your talks with us in lonely places were heart-warming. Now we are all aggrieved to remember Your behavior. Please save us. Dear Krṣṇa, certainly You know how much we are saddened when You go out of Vrṇdāvana village to tend the cows in the forest. How we are afflicted simply to think that Your soft lotus feet are being pricked by the dry grass and the tiny stones in the forest! We are so attached to You that we always think simply of Your lotus feet.
“O Krṣṇa, when You return from the pasturing ground with the animals, we see Your face covered by Your curly hair and dusted by the hoof-dust of the cows. We see Your mildly smiling face, and our desire to enjoy You increases. O dear Krṣṇa, You are the supreme lover, and You always give shelter to surrendered souls. You fulfill everyone’s desire; Your lotus feet are even worshiped by Lord Brahmā, the creator of the universe. To whomever worships Your lotus feet, You without a doubt always bestow Your benedictions. So kindly be pleased with us and keep Your lotus feet on our breasts and thus relieve our present distresses. Dear Krṣṇa, we are seeking Your kisses which You offer even to Your flute. The vibration of Your flute enchants the whole world and our hearts also. Kindly, therefore, return and kiss us with Your mouth of nectar.”
When Lord Krṣṇa finally reappeared and assembled with the  gopīs , He looked very beautiful, just befitting a person with all kinds of opulences. In the  Brahma-saṁhitā , it is stated,  ānanda-cin-maya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhiḥ : Krṣṇa alone is not particularly beautiful, but when His energy—especially His pleasure energy, represented by Rādhārāṇī—expands, He looks very magnificent. The Māyāvāda conception of the perfection of the Absolute Truth without potency is due to insufficient knowledge. Actually, outside the exhibition of His different potencies, the Absolute Truth is not complete.  Ānanda-cin-maya-rasa  means that His body is a transcendental form of eternal bliss and knowledge. Krṣṇa is always surrounded by different potencies, and therefore He is perfect and beautiful. We understand from  Brahma-saṁhitā  and  Skanda Purāṇa  that Krṣṇa is always surrounded by many thousands of goddesses of fortune. The  gopīs  are all goddesses of fortune, and Krṣṇa took them hand in hand on the bank of the Yamunā.
It is said in the  Skanda Purāṇa  that out of many thousands of  gopīs , 16,000 are predominant; out of those 16,000  gopīs , 108  gopīs  are especially prominent; and out of 108  gopīs , eight  gopīs  are still more prominent; out