Delivering the Message of Krṣṇa to the Gopīs
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service was achieved by the  gopīs  because they did not care to know anything but Krṣṇa. It is confirmed in the  Vedas ,  yasmin eva vijñāte sarvam eva vijñātam bhavanti . This means that simply by knowing Krṣṇa all other knowledge is automatically acquired.
Krṣṇa continued: “Transcendental knowledge of the Absolute is no longer necessary for you. You were accustomed to love Me from the very beginning of your lives.” Knowledge of the Absolute Truth is specifically required for persons who want liberation from material existence. But one who has attained love for Krṣṇa is already on the platform of liberation. As stated in the  Bhagavad-gītā , anyone engaged in unalloyed devotional service is to be considered situated on the transcendental platform of liberation. The  gopīs  were not actually feeling any pangs of material existence, but they were feeling the separation of Krṣṇa. Krṣṇa therefore said, “My dear  gopīs , in order to increase your superexcellent love for Me, I have purposely separated Myself from you. I have done this so that you may be in constant meditation on Me.”
The  gopīs  are in the perfectional stage of meditation. The  yogīs  are generally more fond of meditation than the execution of devotional service to the Lord, but they do not know that the perfectional stage of devotion is the attainment of the perfection of the  yoga  system. This constant meditation on Krṣṇa by the  gopīs  is confirmed in the  Bhagavad-gītā  to be the topmost  yoga . Krṣṇa knew very well the psychology of women. When a woman’s beloved is away, she thinks of him meditatively, and he is present before her. Krṣṇa wanted to teach through the behavior of the  gopīs . One who is constantly in trance like the  gopīs  surely attains the lotus feet of Krṣṇa.
Lord Caitanya taught people in general the method of  vipralambha , which is the method of rendering service unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the feeling of separation. The six Gosvāmīs also taught worship of Krṣṇa in the feeling of the  gopīs  in separation. The prayers of Śrīnivāsa Ācārya about the Gosvāmīs explain these matters very clearly. Śrīnivāsa Ācārya said that the Gosvāmīs were always absorbed in the ocean of transcendental feelings in the mood of the  gopīs . When they lived in Vṛndāvana they were searching for Krṣṇa, crying, “Where is Krṣṇa? Where are the  gopīs ? Where are You, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī?” They never said, “We have now seen Rādhā and Krṣṇa, and therefore our mission is fulfilled.” Their mission remained always unfulfilled; they never met Rādhā and Krṣṇa. At the time of the  rāsa  dance, those  gopīs  who could not join the  rāsa-līla  with Krṣṇa gave up their bodies simply by thinking of Him. Absorption in Krṣṇa consciousness by feeling separation is thus the