The gopis pray, pranata-dehinam papa-karsanam : “O Govinda, You are so merciful that You destroy the sins of those who surrender to You. We are surrendered to You, so is it that because of the sins of our previous lives You remain hidden from us and do not give us Your darcsana? We are crying in separation from You, and today, in this world there is no one as unhappy as us. We have abandoned forever our homes and families, and now we are left with no other shelter besides You! So won’t You destroy all of our sins?”.
These are the inner sentiments of one gopi. There are so many different kinds of gopis with different sentiments, and another gopi is saying, “You destroy the sins of one who is surrendered. Until tonight we have not been able to surrender, but having abandoned our homes, husbands, children, and the fear of being disgraced in society, we have come to You. So what remains for us to surrender?
Now please give us Your darsana, and by placing Your lotus feet on our heads, give us the boon of mitigating our fear of the snake of separation from You. Those feet are eternally served by Sri Laksmi, so are we to be deprived of the favor of serving them because we have taken birth in cowherding families in Gokula? Those feet follow after the cows in the pastures, and You are so merciful that even without any umbrella over Your head or any shoes on Your feet You take those cows, who are merely ignorant animals, out to graze, so who could be as kind as You?”
In this way, even though they were anguished, they continued to sing the glories of Krsna’s lotus feet.
Bhakti Rasayana page 93-94 [CC-by-ND GVP]