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Gita Govinda -Shri Jayadeva Gosvami
Act Seven : nägara näräyaëaù
The Dextrous Divinity
Scene Sixteen : Song 16 : Verse 40
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CommentaryRädhä criticizes her own heart in the madness of separation. She complains to her sakhé, “Alas! Whom can I blame? Today my memories of Kṛṣṇa make the happy company of those dear friends who forbade me to meet with him seem like a hostile rain of enmity. The cool breeze burns me like fire and the moon seems to be deadly poison. O sakhi, despite all this adversity, my heart still runs incessantly after that merciless, cruel person, Çré Kṛṣṇa. Therefore the only cause of my suffering is my own indiscriminate heart. For lotus-eyed women who have no power to discriminate between the beneficial and the detrimental, käma is extremely difficult to restrain and turns into the cause of unlimited misery. Kämadeva is uncontrollable. He is a harsh antagonist to beautiful young women and his behaviour is especially wanton towards heroines in separation.” This verse features hariëé chanda and virodha alaìkära. |
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