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Gita Govinda -Shri Jayadeva Gosvami
Act Two : akleça kecavaù
Carefree Krishna
Scene Six
Song 6
Verse 11
Commentary
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Therefore, Rädhä’s keen desire for Kṛṣṇa acts to increase rasa. “Sakhi, the very first time Kṛṣṇa enjoyed with me, he realized the bliss of making love. Now that we are apart, I constantly remember the happiness o our amorous play. The erotic sentiment (madana-rasa) makes me distraught with impatience. Separation from Kṛṣṇa has become intolerable. Sakhi, arrange my union with him at once!” In this way the poet has portrayed Rädhä’s anuräga for Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa’s anuräga for Rädhä. If an author introduces the subject of union before depicting mutual anuräga, the defect of rasäbhäsa occurs. Sa-vikäram – Shri Rädhä says, “I have experienced the transformations of käma.” When a woman’s lust is aroused, she devises an excuse to show her navel, breasts and other parts of her body. As stated in the commentary entitled Rasika-sarvasva: When a woman is aroused, her gestures are full of anuräga. For example, she creates an opportunity to show her navel, breasts and abdomen; she repeatedly glances towards her beloved with desire in her eyes; her undergarments begin to loosen; the arrangement of her hair slips and she tries to fix it; she carefully observes all the activities of her beloved’s friends and she praises his good fortune and virtues along with them. “O sakhi, I am guilty of all these love-laden gestures. Arrange my meeting with Shri Kṛṣṇa at once.” |
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