Text 40] Bhisma’s Passing Away 495

Personality of Godhead within or without attains his svariipa, which is the
highest perfection of life.

TEXT 40

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lalita-gati-vilasa-valguhasa-
pranaya-nirik: sana-kalpitorumanah
kria-manu-krta-vatya unmadandhah
prakrtim agan kila yasya gopa-vadhvah

lalita—altractive; gati-movements: vilasa—fascinaling acts: valgu-hdsa—
sweet smiling; pranaya—loving; nirtksana—looking on: kalpita— mentality:
urumanah—highly gloritied; krta-manu-kria-vatyah—in the act of copying
the movements; unmadaéndhah—gone mad in ecstasy: prakrtim—charac-
teristics: agan—underwent; kila—certainly: yasya—whose: gopa-vadhvah—
the cowherd damsels.

TRANSLATION

Let my mind be fixed upon Lord Sri Krsna, whose motions and
smiles of love attracted the damsels of Vrajadhama [the gopis]. The
damsels imitated the characteristic movements of the Lord [after His
disappearance from the rasa dance].

PURPORT

By intense ecstasy of loving service, the damsels of Vrajabhiimi 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 I{im with a loving attitude. The relation of the Lord with Arjuna is
undoubtedly praiseworthy by devotees like Bhismadeva, but the relation
of the gopis with the Lord is stili more praiseworthy because of their still
more purified loving service. By the grace of the Lord, Arjuna was fortunate
