… these ideals -- work for work's sake, love for love's sake, duty for duty's sake, … … They were not floating about in the atmosphere when Krishna was born.
But the Lord Krishna was the first preacher of this; his disciple Vyasa took it up and preached it unto mankind. This is the highest idea to picture. The highest thing we can get out of him is Gopijanavallabha, the Beloved of the Gopis of Vrindaban.
When that madness comes in your brain, when you understand the blessed Gopis, then you will understand what love is.
- Swami Vivekananda, Address at Madras,
Lectures From Colombo to Almora
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