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Caitanya-caritāmṛta 17.281

gopīnāṁ paśupendra-nandana-juṣo bhāvasya kas tāṁ kṛtī vijñātuṁ kṣamate durūha-padavī-sañcāriṇaḥ prakriyām āviṣkurvati vaiṣṇavīm api tanuṁ tasmin bhujair jiṣṇubhir yāsāṁ hanta caturbhir adbhuta-ruciṁ rāgodayaḥ kuñcati
[gopeenaam pashupendra-nandana-jusho bhaavasya kas taam kritee vijnaatum kshamate durooha-padavee-sanchaarinah prakriyaam aavishkurvati vaishnaveem api tanum tasmin bhujair jishnubhir yaasaam hanta chaturbhir adbhuta-ruchim raagodayah kunchati]
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
gopīnāṁ paśupendra-nandana-juṣo bhāvasya kas tāṁ kṛtī vijñātuṁ kṣamate durūha-padavī-sañcāriṇaḥ prakriyām āviṣkurvati vaiṣṇavīm api tanuṁ tasmin bhujair jiṣṇubhir yāsāṁ hanta caturbhir adbhuta-ruciṁ rāgodayaḥ kuñcati
“Once Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa playfully manifested Himself as Nārāyaṇa, with four victorious hands and a very beautiful form. When the gopīs saw this exalted form, however, their ecstatic feelings were crippled. Even a learned scholar, therefore, cannot understand the gopīs’ ecstatic feelings, which are firmly fixed upon the original form of Lord Kṛṣṇa as the son of Nanda Mahārāja. The wonderful feelings of the gopīs in ecstatic parama-rasa with Kṛṣṇa constitute the greatest mystery in spiritual life.”

This is a quotation from the Lalita-mādhava (6.54), by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
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