In plain words
God is not a person in form. He is the Self of all. The principle of the Ātma that is everywhere is one. That very Ātma goes on taking one form after another, to uplift the world and to uphold Dharma.
It was the Gopīs who recognised this feeling of the Paramātma. They had no feeling of difference, that this is a tree, this a flower, this merely a creeper, this a bush. Sakkubāi too knew that Kṛṣṇa pervades everything. She knew that He is every form. But she found contentment only in calling, Raṅgā, Raṅgā. Uddhava comes and describes Kṛṣṇa to Yaśodā in many ways. Yaśodā loves only one name. I do not care where He who roams in Bṛndāvana has gone. I do not mind it. Is my Gopāla well? Gopālā, Gopālā, Gopālā! That very name Gopāla was most sweet to her. In the same way, though all the Gopīs too had the faith that God dwells within all, only the longing to hear their own Kṛṣṇa's form, that soft and sweet music of the flute, filled their hearts. They went into Bṛndāvana. They wander about like mad women. They ask the bushes:
The dark One, the One with lotus eyes, the One who sprinkles the nectar of grace, the One with the peacock feather spread over His crown, whose smile lights up His face: has such a One stolen away the maidens' treasure of honour? O jasmines! He is not hiding behind your bushes, is He? Tell us!
Is He hiding anywhere here? Tell us. Tell us. Do jasmine plants talk! Do trees talk? They have no power of reasoning at all. Their faith is very great. Wherever the power of reasoning is, there is nothing but doubts from foot to head. Full faith is theirs. To those who dwell in this fullness, what sense can this incompleteness make?
Only the Gopīs understood the principle of Kṛṣṇa well. But what was Kṛṣṇa like? Though He was with everyone, though He played and sang with everyone and was happy, He did not take anything into Himself. He stayed as though nothing touched Him. Ever content. Ever in Ānanda. Beyond the guṇas. Free of Ahaṅkāra. A great king. However many kingdoms He conquered, He did not rule even one kingdom Himself. He gave the kingdoms to others and lived on happily Himself. There were no desires at all in Him. All His desires too were only for the sake of others. It was because He was beyond the guṇas that He took on the form of God. God is in the guṇas too. But in God there are no guṇas. Only when we recognise well the principle of Prema that rises from the heart, as rays rise from the sun, as trees spring from the earth, can we understand that Divinity well.