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Gita Govinda -Shri Jayadeva Gosvami
Act Seven : nägara näräyaëaù
The Dextrous Divinity
Scene Fifteen : Song 15 : Verse 22
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CommentaryShri Rädhä speaks incoherent words of lamentation, extending her imaginative projections about what Kṛṣṇa must be doing now. She is actually remembering her own previous pastimes with Kṛṣṇa and describing what she sees through the eyes of her ecstatic loving mood (bhäva-netra). Rädhä sees a wonderful heroine who is thinking, “Now Madhuripu has defeated me in this love-battle and he will observe his victory festival (vijayautsava).” Describing the characteristics of this imaginary mistress, Rädhä says, “In a forest on the Yamunä riverside, Kṛṣṇa is playing with that beautiful young woman by artistically decorating her. He is applying a tilaka of deer-musk upon the lotus face of that attractive lover, causing her to thrill with horripilation. On the pretext of decorating her, he has drawn her face close to his with the intention of kissing her. By doing this, his käma has become fully aroused and his hairs are also standing on end. He cannot contain his feelings. With great difficulty, he is painting a tilaka that ends up as a zigzag pattern. Now her beauty is like that of the moon with its deer-shaped mark. By kissing her upon the lips and face, the colour of that tilaka has become smudged across Kṛṣṇa’s lips.” |
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