Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 10 - Chapter 1 - Verse 60

Sanskrit:

नायं श्रियोऽङ्ग उ नितान्तरते: प्रसाद:स्वर्योषितां नलिनगन्धरुचां कुतोऽन्या: ।रासोत्सवेऽस्य भुजदण्डगृहीतकण्ठ-लब्धाशिषां य उदगाद् व्रजवल्ल‍भीनाम् ॥ ६० ॥

ITRANS:

nāyaṁ śriyo ’ṅga u nitānta-rateḥ prasādaḥsvar-yoṣitāṁ nalina-gandha-rucāṁ kuto ’nyāḥrāsotsave ’sya bhuja-daṇḍa-gṛhīta-kaṇṭha-labdhāśiṣāṁ ya udagād vraja-vallabhīnām

Translation:

When Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa was dancing with the gopīs in the rāsa-līlā, the gopīs were embraced by the arms of the Lord. This transcendental favor was never bestowed upon the goddess of fortune or other consorts in the spiritual world. Indeed, never was such a thing even imagined by the most beautiful girls in the heavenly planets, whose bodily luster and aroma resemble the lotus flower. And what to speak of worldly women who are very beautiful according to material estimation?

Purport:

The word meanings and translation for this verse are taken from Śrīla Prabhupāda’s English rendering of Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Madhya 8.80). Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī comments as follows: Lord Kṛṣṇa, the best of all avatāras, exists on the highest platform of purity and morality, and thus He always remained praiseworthy by all, even while accepting worldly criticism for His cow-tending, wandering in the forest, taking meals with young monkeys, stealing yogurt, seducing other men’s wives, and so on. Similarly, the gopīs, who are constituted of the Lord’s pleasure potency, achieved the highest standard of purity and auspiciousness, even in comparison to the goddesses of fortune, and thus the gopīs are supremely glorious, even though they were criticized by worldly people because they were mere cowherd women living in the forest and behaving in an apparently improper way.