
Sravika Reviews
February 3, 2025 at 10:28 AM
In the later acts of #gitagovinda, after Act 5, in which #radharani's sakhi describes her woes and her longing to #krishna, we see Radha learning of similar state of Krishna in another grove of the forest from the sakhi. She sends an mediator to set a place of rendezvous.
She waits the whole night, battling in a fever of unfulfilled amorous desire for Krishna, tormented by the southern Malayan breezes and the bright shards of moon beams. She fills her thoughts with jealousy for another maid with whom she imagines #krishna to be spending time with.
She imagines #krishna's love play with the maiden and in her desperation of wanting him, desires to give up her life. She wants to die by jumping into Yamuna but wants to see her beloved Krishna once before doing so. She is angry at him but cannot let go of her love towards him.
At the dawn of next day when Krishna appears and is in the process of making good with her, Radha launches a tirade of his betrayals against her and asks him to go back to that lover he spent the night with. She says his body has nail marks, lips swollen, red marks on his chest.
She says he is indiscriminate, two faced and doesn't come to her though she spent the night tormented by desire, so what's the point of living further? She asks him to go back to the maiden he spent the night with and not trouble her further.
#krishna swears to her that he had not spent the night with any maiden. He had been searching for her,going from grove to grove all night. His lips are bitten by the bees who want their nectar. His bossom bears the red marks of a special ochre.The nail marks are thorns of trees.
#radha doesn't want to believe his words and continues on her insinuations. So, #madhav does the only thing he can to besmirch her mind and stupefy her thoughts. He starts playing on his loving flute. Even the Gods are known to forget their torments when they listen to his flute.