Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 26

Sanskrit:

श्रीशुक उवाचएवं व्रजस्त्रियो राजन् कृष्णलीलानुगायती: ।रेमिरेऽह:सु तच्चित्तास्तन्मनस्का महोदया: ॥ २६ ॥

ITRANS:

śrī-śuka uvācaevaṁ vraja-striyo rājankṛṣṇa-līlānugāyatīḥremire ’haḥsu tac-cittāstan-manaskā mahodayāḥ

Translation:

Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: O King, thus during the daytime the women of Vṛndāvana took pleasure in continuously singing about the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa, and those ladies’ minds and hearts, absorbed in Him, were filled with great festivity.

Purport:

This verse definitely confirms that the so-called pain of the heartbroken gopīs is actually great spiritual bliss. On the material platform, pain is pain — period. But on the spiritual platform, so-called pain is simply a different variety of spiritual ecstasy. In the Western countries, people take pleasure in mixing different flavors of ice cream to produce wonderful combinations of flavor. Similarly, on the spiritual platform Śrī Kṛṣṇa and His devotees expertly mix the flavors of spiritual bliss, and thus every day was a treat for the gopīs.