Text 40]
Bhīṣma's Passing Away
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Personality of Godhead within or without attains his  svarūpa , which is the highest perfection of life.
TEXT 40
ललितगतिविलासवल्गुहास-
प्रणयनिरीक्षणकल्पितोरुमानाः ।
कृतमनुकृतवत्य उन्मदान्धाः
प्रकृतिमगन् किल यस्य गोपवध्वः ॥४०॥
lalita-gati-vilāsa-valguhāsa-
praṇaya-nirīkṣaṇa-kalpitorumānāḥ
kṛta-manu-kṛta-vatya unmadāndhāḥ
prakṛtim agan kila yasya gopa-vadhvaḥ
lalita —attractive;  gati —movements;  vilāsa —fascinating acts;  valgu-hāsa —sweet smiling;  praṇaya —loving;  nirīkṣaṇa —looking on;  kalpita —mentality;  urumānāḥ —highly glorified;  kṛta-manu-kṛta-vatyaḥ —in the act of copying the movements;  unmadāndhāḥ —gone mad in ecstasy;  prakṛtim —characteristics;  agan —underwent;  kila —certainly;  yasya —whose;  gopa-vadhvaḥ —the cowherd damsels.
TRANSLATION
Let my mind be fixed upon Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, whose motions and smiles of love attracted the damsels of Vrajadhāma [the gopīs]. The damsels imitated the characteristic movements of the Lord [after His disappearance from the rāsa dance].
PURPORT
By intense ecstasy of loving service, the damsels of Vrajabhūmi attained the qualitative oneness with the Lord by dancing with Him on an equal level, embracing Him in nuptial love, smiling at Him in joke, and looking at Him with a loving attitude. The relation of the Lord with Arjuna is undoubtedly praiseworthy by devotees like Bhīṣmadeva, but the relation of the  gopīs  with the Lord is still more praiseworthy because of their still more purified loving service. By the grace of the Lord, Arjuna was fortunate