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Krṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
The  gopīs  used to discuss Krṣṇa amongst themselves, and their talks were as follows. “My dear friends,” one  gopī  said, “do you know that when Krṣṇa lies on the ground He rests on His left elbow, and His head rests on His left hand. He moves His attractive eyebrows while playing His flute with His delicate fingers, and the sound He produces creates such a nice atmosphere that the denizens of the heavenly planets, who travel in space with their wives and beloved, stop their airplanes, for they are stunned by the vibration of the flute. The wives of the demigods who are seated in the planes then become very much ashamed of their singing and musical qualifications. Not only that, but they become afflicted with conjugal love, and their hair and tightened dresses immediately loosen.”
Another  gopī  said, “My dear friends, Krṣṇa is so beautiful that the goddess of fortune always remains on His chest, and He is always adorned with a golden necklace. Beautiful Krṣṇa plays His flute in order to enliven the hearts of many devotees. He is the only friend of the suffering living entities. When He plays His flute, all the cows and other animals of Vṛndāvana, although engaged in eating, simply take a morsel of food in their mouths and stop chewing. Their ears raise up and they become stunned. They do not appear alive but like painted animals. Krṣṇa’s flute playing is so attractive that even the animals become enchanted, and what to speak of ourselves.”
Another  gopī  said, “My dear friends, not only living animals, but even inanimate objects like the rivers and lakes of Vṛndāvana also become stunned when Krṣṇa passes with peacock feathers on His head and His body smeared with the minerals of Vṛndāvana. With leaves and flowers decorating His body, He looks like some hero. When He plays on His flute and calls the cows with Balarāma, the River Yamunā stops flowing and waits for the air to carry dust from His lotus feet. The River Yamunā is unfortunate like us; it does not get Krṣṇa’s mercy. The river simply remains stunned, stopping its waves just as we also stop crying out of frustration for Krṣṇa.”
In the absence of Krṣṇa the  gopīs  were constantly shedding tears, but sometimes, when they expected that Krṣṇa was coming, they would stop crying. But when they saw that Krṣṇa was not coming, then again they would become frustrated and begin to cry. Krṣṇa is the original Personality of Godhead, the origin of all Viṣṇu forms, and the cowherd boys are all demigods. Lord Viṣṇu is always worshiped and surrounded by different demigods like Lord Śiva, Lord Brahmā, Indra, Candra, and others. When Krṣṇa traveled through the Vṛndāvana forest or walked on the Govardhana