gopi
गोपी gopīThe cowherd women of Vraja whose love for Krishna, expressed in the raslila dance, the Bhagavata frames as the soul's longing for God.
Where this term appears
- Who is Krishna? Deities
On autumn nights Krishna plays his flute, and the gopis , the cowherd women of Vraja, leave their homes and husbands to come to him, and he dances with them by the Yamuna, multiplying himself so that each belie…
- What is Shaktipat? Lineages
In the winter of 1937, in a small house on the outskirts of Jammu, Gopi Krishna experienced an awakening he had neither sought nor prepared for.
- Reading the Tilaka: Forehead Marks Explained Deities
The Vaishnava urdhva-pundra is drawn in cooling pale clays and sandalwood paste, gopi-chandana among them, clay said to come from sacred ponds, and in the soft yellow of sandal that calms rather than warns.
- The Book of the Lord Treatise
…lage from a storm, the youth whose flute calls the cowherd women, the gopis , out into the autumn night for the circling dance of divine love, the rasa-lila .
- The Burning and the Colours Treatise
So he did, and the gopis with her, and the playful smearing of colour at Braj , at Mathura and Vrindavan where Krishna grew up, became the heart of the festival.
- The Sleeping Serpent Treatise
…n the twentieth century the most famous first-person account, that of Gopi Krishna, who published in 1967, described an awakening that brought years of physical torment and near-collapse before it stabilised, a…