Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Second Series

Fragment ID: 20725

The Gopis are not ordinary people in the proper sense of the Word: they are embodiments of a spiritual passion, extraordinary by their extremeness of love, personal devotion, unreserved self-giving. Whoever has that, however humble his or her position in other respects (learning, power of presentation, scholarship, external sanctity, etc.) can easily follow after Krishna and reach him: that seems to me the sense of the symbol of the Gopis. There are many other significances, of course – that is only one among the many.