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Radha’s Prem -Swami Sivananda
Scene 5
Act 1
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Radha: Aey, don’t go on flattering me. I know there is something behind these words. You won’t talk in this fashion without some purpose. Now, what do you want? Haven’t we danced enough for today? Then why don’t you leave me alone? Krishna: You are a thought-reader, Radha. I come to ask you about my flute. Only you know where it is. I was fast asleep and woke up to find it missing. Radha: Hare, what is this? What do I know about it? Was it for this you wasted all your energy, hunting me out? Poor Krishna! Go, go! Leave me alone. And, all this worry for a little piece of bamboo. See, there is a forest of bamboos. Why don’t you cut a piece from one of the trees and be done with it? It is this piece of bamboo that made you extol me to the skies all the time suspecting that I would have stolen it. What a love you pretend to have for me! Krishna: Radha, do you still have any doubt that you are the life of my life? The flute is not a piece of bamboo. It is dear to me as my life and I cannot have peace of mind without it. Radha: If it is so dear to you, you ought to have guarded it scrupulously or asked me to guard it for you. What are you doing with that blessed Bansuri, that you should get peace only from it? |
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