CC Madhya 9.134
Madhya-līlā, Chapter 9, Text 134
বাহ্যান্তরে গোপীদেহ ব্রজে যবে পাইল ।
সেই দেহে কৃষ্ণসঙ্গে রাসক্রীড়া কৈল ॥ ১৩৪ ॥
সেই দেহে কৃষ্ণসঙ্গে রাসক্রীড়া কৈল ॥ ১৩৪ ॥
bāhyāntare gopī-deha vraje yabe pāila
sei dehe kṛṣṇa-saṅge rāsa-krīḍā kaila
sei dehe kṛṣṇa-saṅge rāsa-krīḍā kaila
Word by word
bāhya-antare — externally and internally; gopī-deha — the body of a gopī; vraje — in Vrajabhūmi; yabe — when; pāila — they got; sei dehe — in that body; kṛṣṇa-saṅge — with Kṛṣṇa; rāsa-krīḍā — pastimes of the rāsa dance; kaila — performed.
Translation
“The personified authorities on the Vedic hymns acquired bodies like those of the gopīs and took birth in Vrajabhūmi. In those bodies they were allowed to enter into the Lord’s rāsa-līlā dance.”