(Srimad Bhagavata 10.47.22 – 10.47.37)
Sri Suka said: 22. Hearing these words of the Gopis, mad with eagerness to meet Krishna, Uddhava consoled them by conveying the message of their beloved Krishna. Uddhava said:
23. ‘Listen! You indeed have attained to the highest fulfilment of life, and the whole world must adore you. For, you have succeeded in surrendering your mind completely to Vāsudeva, the Lord of all.
24. Devotion to Krishna is attained by the practice of several pious disciplines like gifts, vows, austerity, sacrifices, repetition of divine names, study of scriptures, and control of the senses.
25. But lo! Even without any of these I find in you an extraordinary and unparalleled manifestation of this love of the most holy one, Sri Krishna, which is rare even among sages.
26. It is a most fortunate circumstance that you have chosen Krishna the Supreme Being as your own, abandoning children, husbands, your own bodies, relatives, and homes.
27. You have attained to the state of complete and whole-hearted dedication to Krishna, body, mind and soul. This experience of love in separation that I have witnessed in you, has been a great blessing to me.
28. O holy ones! Hear from me the message sent by your beloved one, which will be most heartening to you. I, who conduct all his most private and personal affairs, have come here with this message for you.
‘The Lord has said: 29. You can never be separated from Me who am manifest as the whole universe. Just as the five elements, sky, air, fire, water and earth, permeate all objects that have come out of them, so I, the Supreme Cause, permeate this whole world of effects, including the mind, vital energy, elements, senses, Gunas, etc.
30. I create, sustain, and dissolve everything within Myself and out of Myself by My inherent Power—all these effects in the form of elements, sense powers, and Gunas being such manifestations of Mine in the creative process.
31. The Atman is of the nature of Pure Consciousness; he is distinct from the body and mind, and is thus distinct from and unconnected with the Gunas of Prakriti. He only seems to be linked with the three dispositions of Maya consisting of the states of waking, dream and sleep.
32. Just as an awakened man experiences the sublation of the objects seen in the dream, so also at the dawn of spiritual illumination, all the waking objects are sublated. Knowing this, one should with great vigilance control and gain mastery over that waking mind which broods over objects of the senses and enjoys them.
33. The purpose of the whole Veda is the conquest of the senses. Yoga, Sankhya, Sannyasa, Tapas, self-control, observance of truth and all such disciplines have this conquest of the senses and the mind as their end, as rivers have the ocean as their goal.
34. I am now staying far away from you in order that you may practise the discipline of meditation on Me, your dear one, by which you can commune with Me.
35. In the case of a woman who is in love with a person, her mind does not dwell on him so continuously when he is nearby, as it does when separated from him.
36. Devoid of all other thoughts, allow your minds to enter into Me in its completeness; then you will attain Me without delay.
37. The proof of this, O pious girls, is the fact that those of the Gopis who were not able, because of obstructions, to leave Vraja and join Me in those nights of the Rasa dance, were able to reach Me instantly, giving up the physical body through intense meditation on My excellences.’
(Source: Srimad Bhagavata Volume 3 by Swami Tapasyananda)