Do gopis know Krishna’s future pastimes?
Thank you so do the gopis know Krishna's pastimes in advance or do they sometimes know it, sometimes don't know it this is in the acharyas in the commentaries to the Gopi Gita when the gopis refer to Yomasur attacking Krishna Mayaatmaja son of Maya that is Yomasur and his attack comes after the Gopi Gita so from that point the acharyas explain that the gopis do know the future so how do they know it it is because they are very evolved souls although they are in the form of simple cowherd women but they are very spiritually evolved so just as evolved souls sometimes have a siddhi of trikal ajna of knowing past present and future similarly the gopis know about past present and future and now of course the devotees their specific powers whatever they may have or may not have the devotees mood is to serve Krishna constantly just like in Vrindavan there are kalpatarus, desire fulfilling trees but when Radharani has to cook for Krishna she doesn't tell a desire fulfilling tree please make this, please provide this rasgulla, please provide this please provide that, she actually cooks for Krishna because there is joy in the effort to serve there is joy in that so basically the gopis do not normally act as if they know past present and future it's not merely acting it means that whatever is needed for their service that is what they know and other things are just pushed in the background of their awareness and if at all sometime it is required then that comeback comes to the foreground otherwise it doesn't so from that perspective in the normal dealings the gopis don't know about Krishna's past times and future when they are searching for Krishna they are not thinking Krishna is going to come back now we are going to go and we are seeing the Gopi Gita and Krishna is going to come back it's not like that in fact even when Krishna himself is running away from Mother Yashoda no he doesn't think oh I know Yashoda is going to catch me afterwards he is actually thinking if she catches me she will beat me and it will hurt me so much I have to run for my life now he is trying his best to run so this unawareness we could say is brought about by yoga maya yoga maya is the energy of you could say divine illusion yoga maya maya is illusion but yoga is connection so the illusion that deepens one's connection with Krishna that is yoga maya and this yoga maya is what enables the soul in the spiritual world to relish Krishna Leela more and to assume the mood by which we can serve Krishna the best so the Gopis they by their spiritual exaltedness can know the future and at this particular point when they are desperately trying to beseech Krishna to come back so here they are remembering various occasions when Krishna saved them and does this as an occasion also of Krishna saving the Varjavasis from Yomasur that also comes in at this particular point but the important thing is that the Gopis are not constantly in the mood of all knowing sages or knowing about the future for them the suspense, the excitement what is going to happen next, what is Krishna going to do all that is there because their whole purpose is to serve Krishna and they are, they have the knowledge that is required for their service to Krishna, they don't necessarily have the Trikalakya knowledge that may come from some, from their spiritually exalted status.