1. Thank You for making me contemplate.
2. Now i know why the Gopis were better off in seperation of Krshna.
This is also explained by Krshna during reunion with the Gopis at Kurukshetra (? solar eclipse) after many yrs, as Dwarkadheesh. "I pervade all, and am always with you". Something they could not appreciate when Krshna was in front of them in Gokul-Vrndavan.
3. The BhAgvat is more esoteric than it seems. Krshna is not just a dark cowherd lad , Gopis are not adolescent girls. They don't physically run into the woods on hearing His flute (of the Anhat sound - Shabda Brahman). Their minds and AtmA do. That is why their parents or husbands think they are home.
Its about the circle of AtmA finding its centre , ParamAtmA. Someone else will shed better light on this.
4. The answer to yr qn is evident in the Bhagavad Gita , if the sanskrt is read carefully.
5. In addition, VishnusahasranAma ( Thousand Names of Vishnu - Padma Purana) gives all clues.
( Guruji points out that the first word in VishnusahasranAma is Vishwam. He is Vishwam (Universe) , and the One who pervades it entirely, hence Vishnu. )
Translation by Swami Krshnanada.
http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/vishnu/vishnu_1.html
Here are only some of His beautiful names.
Vishvam: The all or the Universe.
Vishnu: He who pervades every thing.
Bhuta-bhavya-bhavat-prabhuh: The one who is the master and beyond the past, present and the future.
Bhutakrud: The creator and destroyer of all existences in the universe.
Bhutabhrud: One who supports or sustains or governs the universe.
Bhava: Pure existence.
Bhutatma: The essence of all beings. Bhuta-bhavanah: He who originates and develops all Elements.
Putatma: One whose nature is purity/who is purity
Paramatma: He who is the supreme one and the Atman.
Muktanam parama gatih: The highest goal of the liberated ones.
Avyayah: One for whom there is no decay.
Purusha: One who abides in the body or pura.
Sakshi: One who witnesses everything
Kshetraj'na: The knower of the field or body.
Akshara: He who is without destruction.
Yoga: One attainable through Yoga.
Purushottamah: The greatest among all Purushas.
sarvah: The omniscient source of all existence.
Sivah: One pure.
Sthanu: One who is steady, immovable and changeless.
Bhutadi: Source of all elements or existing things.
Brahma: One who creates everything as the creator Brahma.
Brahman: Being big expanding, the Lord who is known from indications like Satya (Truth), is called Brahman. Or Brahma is Truth, Knowledge and Infinity!
Svayambhuh: One who exists by Himself, uncaused by any other.
Shambhu: One who bestows happiness on devotees.
Aditya: The golden-hued person in the sun's orb.
Mahasvanah: One from whom comes the great sound - the Veda.
Anandi-nidhana: The one existence that has neither birth nor death.
Dhata: One who is the support of the universe.
Vidhata: He who generates Karmas and their fruits.
Dhaturuttamah: The ultimate support of every thing.
Aprameya: One who is not measurable or understandable by any of the accepted means of knowledge like sense, perception, inference etc.
Hrishikesah: The master of the senses or He under whose control the senses subsist.
Padma-nabha: He in whose navel (nabhi) the lotus (padma), the source of the universe, stands.
Amara-prabhuh: The master of Amaras or the deathless ones, i.e. the Devas.
Visvakarma: He whose Karma (work) has resulted in all that exists (Vishvam) or He whose power of creation is unique and wonderful.
Manu: He who thinks.
Stvashta: He who makes all beings shrunken (Tanukarana) at the time of cosmic dissolution.
Sthavishtah: He who excels in everything in bulk or substantiality.
Sthaviro-dhruvah: Eternal One, being the most ancient. It is taken as a single phrase, the name along with its qualification.
....... it goes on .........
Its wonderful to meditate on these names.
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5. Gopis may think -
OF [belong to ] Krshna
made BY Krshna
live FOR Krshna
walk INTO the heart of Krshna
fill the heart WITH Krshna
make Pradakshina (circumbulation) AROUND Krshna
hand self OVER TO Krshna
EAT food = PUrna-Brahman' = KRshna
DRINK dravya (liquid) = Krshna
sleep IN the bed of Supersoul = Krshna (shushupti - deep sleep)
think ABOUT Krshna (jagrat - waking)
dream ABOUT Krshna (swapna - dream state)
meditate in trance ON Krshna (turya - consciousness)
ShyAm VyAkran (grammar)
ShyAm Sangeet (music)
ShyAm KavitA (poetry)
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