304 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

brought from Krsna. Uddhava said, ‘“My dear gopis, I am especially deputed
to carry this message to you, who are such great and gentle devotees.
Krsna has specifically sent me to you because I am His most confidential
servitor.”

The written message which Uddhava brought from Krsna was not
delivered to the gopis by Uddhava, but he personally read it before them.
The message was very gravely written, so that not only the gopis, 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,
perasya saktir vividhaiva sriiyate. Also, the gopis were such intimate
personal friends of Krsna 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 gopis, 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 Krsna is explained in the Bhagavad-gita, both
in the Ninth and Seventh Chapters. Krsna is all-pervasive in His impersonal
feature; everything is resting in Him, but He is net 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 Krsna. Therefore Krsna
is the source of both the material and spiritual energies. He is always
intermingled with everything as cause and effect. Not only the gopis, but
all living entities are always inseparably connected with Krsna in all
circumstances. The gopis, however, are perfectly and thoroughly in
cooperation in their relationship with Krsna, whereas the living entities
under the spell of maya are forgetful of Krsna. They think themselves as
separate identities having no connection with Krsna.

Love of Krsna, or Krsna 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 Krsna’s energy. One who knows this philosophical aspect
