The literal form of the love of Shree Radharani was the Gopis (cowherd maidens devoted to Shree Krishna). The Gopis were the form of Shree Radharani’s love. Gopis were the mind of Shree Krishna.
मन्माहात्म्यं मत्सपर्यां मच्छ्रद्धां मन्मनोगतम् ।
जानन्ति गोपिकाः पार्थ नान्ये जानन्ति तत्त्वतः ॥Man-māhātmyaṁ mat-saparyāṁ mach-chhraddhāṁ man-mano-gatam.
Jānanti gopikāḥ pārth nānye jānanti tattvataḥ.- Shree Caitanya-Charitāmṛit, Ādi-līlā 4.213
Lord Krishna is saying to Arjun, “Man-māhātmyaṁ mat-saparyāṁ mach-chhraddhāṁ man-mano-gatam.”
“What is My seva (service)? What is My puja (worship)? What is My shraddha (faith)? And what is in My mind? Nobody else knows about it. Nobody can know what is in My mind.”
But the Gopis knew it very well. Why? Because the mind of Shree Krishna had become the mind of the Gopis. The Gopis didn’t have their own mind. Why? Because they had already given it to Shree Krishna. It was totally dedicated to Shree Krishna. So the mind which was working in their heart was the mind of Shree Krishna. So because all of them were alike, all of them were thinking about only the service of Shree Radha-Krishna, and what could please Them.
That’s why - because all of them were the mind of Shree Radha-Krishna is why their thinking was matching. Everything was matching because they were seeing what leela (Divine pastime) was going to be played. Shree Krishna and Shree Radha were not telling
“What leela I am going to play?”
Everything was spontaneous, but it was blending. It was so matching because they knew everything. They knew what Shree Krishna was thinking right now. They don’t have to make any effort for that. So this was the state of the Gopis.
What (do) we do? We also surrender, but there is one lack in the surrender of other devotees.
Many devotees have surrendered themselves. But there is one thing which is not done by other devotees, but the Gopis did it. What is that? Surrender of the personality who is surrendering.
सब कुछ समर्पित करना है, और समर्पित करने वाले का भी समर्पण करना है। और समर्पण करने की भावना, समर्पण करने का जो ज्ञान है, वह भी समर्पित करना है।
Sab kuchh samarpit karnā hai, aur samarpit karne vāle kā bhī samarpaṇ karna hai. Aur samarpaṇ karne kī bhāvanā, samarpaṇ karne kā jo gyān hai, vah bhī samarpit karna hai.
Surrender means surrender of all what you have - body, mind, intellect, everything.
Plus, you have to surrender yourself also. Plus, you have to surrender the ज्ञान - gyan (knowledge), the cognition that I have surrendered everything. Then the surrender is completed.
