sri-suka uvaca

ity adista bhagavata

 labdha-kamah kumarikah

dhyayantyas tat-padambhojam

 krcchran nirvivisur vrajam

 

Translation: 

 

Sukadeva Gosvami said: Thus instructed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the young girls, their desire now fulfilled, could bring themselves only with great difficulty to return to the village of Vraja, meditating all the while upon His lotus feet.

 

Purport: 

 

The gopis’ desire was fulfilled because Lord Krsna had agreed to act as their husband. A young girl can never spend the night with any man except her husband, and thus when Krsna agreed to engage the girls in the nocturnal rasa dance during the coming autumn season, in effect He was agreeing to reciprocate their love for Him in the role of a husband.