gopī-gaṇera śuddha-prema aiśvarya-jñāna-hīna
premete bhartsanā kare ei tāra cihna

 gopī-gaṇera - of the gopīs; śuddha-prema - unalloyed love; aiśvarya-jñāna-hīna - devoid of knowledge of opulences; premete - of pure love; bhartsanā - chastisement; kare - do; ei - this; tāra - of that; cihna - the symptom.


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“Obsessed with pure love, without knowledge of opulences, the gopīs sometimes chastise Kṛṣṇa. That is a symptom of pure ecstatic love.

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