But only the Prema that flows towards God alone is called ‘Bhakti’. Rather than splitting into many channels, dwindling, becoming of no use for anything, and lamenting, caught in unrest and sorrow, the sādhana of turning one's stream of Prema in a single direction so that it reaches the ocean called God's grace is called Bhakti. Rather than reaching the ocean of saṃsāra and becoming sapless, how holy it is to reach the ocean of the grace of the Lord of all and be fulfilled, to attain Sat-Cit-Ānanda! One's birth is blessed; that itself is Ānanda. Those who strove in this way, attained and rejoiced were the gopikās; those who crossed over were the gopikās. At all times and in every condition, all the karmas of the gopikās, of mind, speech and body, were being offered at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. That is why the gopikās were called ‘yogis’. Consider how holy their hearts must have been, that Kṛṣṇa Paramātma Himself should call the gopikās ‘yogis’!
21ఆయా జీవరాసులు అన్నింటికినీ తమ తమ బిడ్డలపై, తల్లిదండ్రులపై, మిత్రులపై, వస్తువాహనాదులపై, తిండి తీర్థాదులపై, పరిపరివిధముల ప్రేమ ప్రవహించుచుండును.22అయితే, పూజనీయులైన తల్లిదండ్రులపై, విద్యా గురువులైన ఆచార్యులపై ఈ ప్రేమ ప్రవహించిన, దానిని ‘గౌరవమనియూ, వినయమనియూ, విధేయత’ అనియూ అందురు.23కానీ, ఒక్క భగవంతునిపై మాత్రము ప్రవహించిన ప్రేమనే ‘భక్తి’ అని పిలువబడును.21 to 23