Gopis, they are full of anxiety: “Oh, Krsna has gone to the pasturing ground.” Their anxiety is there. Just like Rukmini, she was thinking, “Oh, Krsna may not give me up. He is talking in this way.” She fainted. So anxiety is there. So that…, the anxiety is that one may not be separated from Krsna. That is the anxiety. And actually there is no separation, but the feeling of separation out of ecstatic love. Just like one who has got love for the other person, beloved, he always thinks like that, “My beloved may not be separated from me.” This is ecstasy of love. Just like a miser man who has got much wealth, he always thinks, “My money may not be lost. My money may not be lost.” Out of his too much attachment for the money, he thinks like that. Is it not? “How shall I protect this money? How shall I protect this?” To earn money is also troublesome. To keep money also troublesome. And when it is lost, that is also troublesome. This is the position. But there is no such thing, loss, but the anxiety is there.

Srila Prabhupada — May 1, 1974, Bombay