The Story of the Kaushala Women
Before reading my below article, I would like to request my viewers to read my other article first “The Story of the Personified Vedas” – material relationships are based on lust desire only which cannot be compared with Lord Krishna’s pastimes. Lord Krishna is free from material defects of possessiveness, false-ego and free of the modes of material nature. Lord Krishna serve his devotees in reciprocation according to their desires.
In the Garga Samhita, Sri Narada Muni explains to Sri Bahulashva, the story of the Kaushala women that became gopis, which is a sacred story that removes all sins and is filled with the nectar of Lord Krishna’s pastimes.
By Lord Ramachandra’s blessing, they were born in the homes of the nine Upanandas. Decorated with jewel ornaments, they were married to various gopas.
They were young, glorious as full moons, delicate as lotus flowers, and graceful as swans. Their eyes were like lotus petals.
They had fallen passionately in love with Nanda’s handsome son Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. They loved Him as a paramour.
Smiling, and tugging at their yellow garments, Krishna teased them and joked with them on the pathways of Vraja.
In the market selling yogurt, they did not call out, Yogurt! Yogurt!” Instead, they called “Krishna! Krishna!” Overcome with love for Krishna, they wandered the forests searching for Him.
When they looked at the different objects of the creation made of ether, air, fire, and water when they looked in the different directions when they looked at the luminaries in the sky, when they looked at trees, and when they looked at people, they did not see them. They only saw Krishna.
They were filled with love for Krishna. Krishna had stolen their hearts. They could not help but display many symptoms of love for Him.
Filled with love, they followed the path of the Paramahamsas. Filled with bliss, they ran along Vraja’s pathways.
Sometimes they were stunned, sometimes they could not understand that inanimate objects were not alive, sometimes they were silent, and sometimes they spoke on and on without care or shyness.
Rapt in thinking of Krishna, they attained the highest goal of life. Irresistibly attracted to Krishna, they could not help but kiss His lotus lips.
How can I describe the austerities they must have performed? Abandoning the path of what is ordinarily thought desirable in this world, with all their heart and senses they loved Lord Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Overcome with love and placing an arm around His shoulders in the rasa dance, they made Krishna their surrendered servant. Even Lord Shesha with His many mouths cannot describe the austerities they must have performed.
Whatever good result may be attained by yoga, Sankhya, good deeds, or the study of logic and philosophy, is at once attained simply by loving Lord Krishna.
Love and devotion make Lord Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, into one’s surrendered servant. The gopis are the proof. They followed neither Sankhya nor yoga. Only because they loved Him did they gain His company.
We can have paramour relationship with Lord Krishna only. The living entity is the fragmental part and parcel of the Supreme Lord – eternally. We must follow in the footsteps of Lord Ramachandra to live an ideal and perfect life. We must follow the instructions given by Lord Krishna to live an ideal and perfect life, we should never try to imitate Lord Krishna.