In the embrace of
Krishna, the gopis, maddened with desire, found refuge; in
their love dalliance with him who was the master in all the sixty-four arts
of love, the gopis felt a thrill indescribable; and in making love with him
in that climatic moment of release, in that one binding moment, they felt
that joy and fulfilment which could not but be an aspect of the divine.
Through their experience, thus, the erotic the carnal and the profane became
but an aspect of the sublime, the spiritual and the divine. This cumulative
myth sustained one basic point: for women,
Krishna was a personal god,
always accessible and unfailingly responsive. He was a god specially made
for women. In the popular psyche,
Krishna and Radha became the universal
symbol for the lover and the beloved.
Krishna was the ideal hero, and Radha
the ideal heroine.
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