Is Gopikaas' love for Krishna equal to Krishna's love for them?

[Ms. Laxmi Thrylokya asked: Pādanamaskāraṃ Swāmi, You said that Gopikās are the toppers in Spiritual path and they were given higher position than God Himself. Is Gopikās' love for Kṛṣṇa equal to the Kṛṣṇa's love for them? Is Gopikās' service to the Lord equal to the Lord's service to them? Kindly enlighten us. -At Your Divine Lotus feet, Laxmi Thrylokya]

Swāmi Replied: This is the most difficult question in the spiritual knowledge. If you look at the madness of Gopikās by which they sacrificed everything and everybody for the sake of their contemporary human incarnation, which is always doubted by the surrounding human beings, Gopikās become greater than Kṛṣṇa. But if you see the love of Kṛṣṇa to Gopikās in creating higher world so that the feet-dust of Gopikās always falls on God, God Kṛṣṇa is greater than Gopikās. The best conclusion to this situation is that Kṛṣṇa and Gopikās are the two sides of the same best coin of Divine love.

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