Radha Krishna

$60
Item Code: HA24
Specifications:
Water Color On Old Jaipur Stamp Paper.
Dimensions 8" X 13"
Handmade
Handmade
Free delivery
Free delivery
Fully insured
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100% Made in India
100% Made in India
Fair trade
Fair trade
O anxious one, abandon fear, imagining
me devoted to other women,
You alone entirely occupy my heart
with your voluptuous breasts and hips. None other than the god of love-
the bodiless one, is blessed
to enter my heart.
O my beloved, be content in this
and allow me to embrace you.

Gitagovinda.

Unlike other gods in the Hindu pantheon, Krishna's personality has a softness to it that makes it conspicuously responsive to the longings and desires of women. As a child, his impish adorability tugs at the maternal instincts of women. As an adolescent, his aggressive behaviour with its transparent sexual overtones, is secretly understood by them. As a lover, he is prepared to overcome his own initial scruples to respond with equal passion to their overtures. When he danced the rasa he took care to perpetuate the illusion that he was available exclusively for each one of them. In lovemaking he was both untiring and accomplished. Above all he was human, treating women not just as sex-objects, but suffering like them in separation and longing.

For women, Krishna was a personal god, always accessible and unfailingly responsive.

The intimate and playful themes that run through Krishna's love for Radha and the festival nature of his dalliance with the gopis portray a vision of the divine that is approachable, warm, irresistible, blissful, and intoxicating. Krishna moves in a realm of love and lovemaking that invites (indeed demands) a total, impassioned response. All those who enter this realm are freed from bondage to the ordinary and customary, freed to behave imaginatively and spontaneously. The erotic aspect of this other world is not degrading but life-affirming. Erotic dalliance shuns the world of taboos and lived for the moment. It is an ovation to all that is vigorous and full of joy. The young god Krishna is an unrepentant reveller stirring all those who join with him to uncontrollable frenzy. In the world of the great lover Krishna, the gopis, as representatives of the human, expand themselves; they plumb depths and reach heights of emotion that are impossible within the humdrum world of habitual action. They leave behind the ordinary and participate in the extraordinary. Under the influence of the intoxicating and intoxicated god they lose their inhibitions and revel in playful freedom.

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