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Krṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
brought from Krṣṇa. Uddhava said, “My dear  gopīs , I am especially deputed to carry this message to you, who are such great and gentle devotees. Krṣṇa has specifically sent me to you because I am His most confidential servitor.”
The written message which Uddhava brought from Krṣṇa was not delivered to the  gopīs  by Uddhava, but he personally read it before them. The message was very gravely written, so that not only the  gopīs , but all empiric philosophers might understand how pure love of God is intrinsically integrated with all the different energies of the Supreme Lord. From Vedic information it is understood that the Supreme Lord has multi-energies,  parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate . Also, the  gopīs  were such intimate personal friends of Krṣṇa that while He was writing the message for them, He was much moved and could not write distinctly. Uddhava, as the student of Brhaspati, had very sharp intelligence, so instead of handing over the written message, he thought it wise to read it personally and explain it to them.
Uddhava continued: “These are the words from the Personality of Godhead. ‘My dear  gopīs , My dear friends, please know that separation between ourselves is impossible at any time, at any place or under any circumstances, because I am all-pervading.’”
This all-pervasiveness of Krṣṇa is explained in the  Bhagavad-gītā , both in the Ninth and Seventh Chapters. Krṣṇa is all-pervasive in His impersonal feature; everything is resting in Him, but He is not personally present everywhere. In the Seventh Chapter also, it is stated that the five gross elements, earth, water, fire, air and sky, and the three subtle elements, mind, intelligence, and ego, are all His inferior energies. But there is another, superior energy, which is called the living entity. The living entities are also directly part and parcel of Krṣṇa. Therefore Krṣṇa is the source of both the material and spiritual energies. He is always intermingled with everything as cause and effect. Not only the  gopīs , but all living entities are always inseparably connected with Krṣṇa in all circumstances. The  gopīs , however, are perfectly and thoroughly in cooperation in their relationship with Krṣṇa, whereas the living entities under the spell of  māyā  are forgetful of Krṣṇa. They think themselves as separate identities having no connection with Krṣṇa.
Love of Krṣṇa, or Krṣṇa consciousness, is therefore the perfectional stage of real knowledge in understanding things as they are. Our minds can never be vacant. The mind is constantly occupied with some kind of thought, and the subject matter of such thought cannot be outside the eight elements of Krṣṇa’s energy. One who knows this philosophical aspect