Ye the Lakshmana Janaki virahitam maam khedayantyambudaa
Marmaanicha ghattayantyala Mami kruraah kadambaanilaaha
Ittham vyahruta purvajanma charitam yo Radhayaa vikshitas sersyaa
Sankitayaa sanas sukhayathu swapnaa maano Harihi!
Krishna has been described as a child extremely beautiful and attractive! It is Impossible to resist the attraction! Gopikaas, affectionately lift Him up and kiss Him. But the child kisses them wildly leaving red imprints on their soft lips! Krishna’s behavior is very much unlike that of an ordinary child! Gopikaas hug child Krishna thinking that He is, after all, a child but were in for shock and surprise! Like a lover, Krishna groped over their private parts to their utter dismay and disgust! The Gopikas were spell bound at these mischievous and rude acts of Krishna which were pure fun for Him! Leela Shuka visualizes Krishna in this manner and hopes that such BalaKrishna shall ward off all our sins and evil deeds!
“ Oh! Lakshmana! These clouds are sad and worried about me since I am without Janaki! Cruel winds from the “ Kadimi” flowers are attacking my private parts! In this manner, Krishna began recollecting the various incidents of His earlier Ram Avatar in His dream! Listening to these words of Krishna, Radha felt that Krishna was more interested in another woman and became highly jealous! She looked at Krishna with doubt and suspicion! Let such Krishna looked at with suspicion and doubt by Radha make us all happy!” declares Leela Shuka in this beautiful sloka!
The poet is in the habit of portraying Krishna as remembering the various incidents in His previous Avatars! Child Krishna starts talking in His sleep to the shock of His mother. She is very much worried and curses those that have cast an evil eye on her darling child! She blesses Him by saying that He will live for long! Yasoda dotes on her child Krishna so dearly that she cannot think of any harm to Him. Yasoda treated Krishna as her darling child and hence her love is called “ Vatsalya bhava”- the love of the mother for her child! This is one of the nine types of Bhakthi or devotion exhibited by the devotee! God, who is Omnipresent can be worshipped in many ways, as a Lord, child, friend, master, guru and other ways.The intense filial bond of affection is excellently exhibited in the treatment of Krishna by Yasoda!
Poetic imagination runs riot and Leela Shuka suddenly introduces Radha in to the picture! Radha is imagined to be present at the scene. She hears the pathetic words of Krishna who feels sad at the separation from His spouse Sita during His Ramavatar! Rama is suffering “Viraha vedana” pangs of separation from Sita! Hearing the name of Janaki, Radha suspects Krishna's character and thinks that He is more interested in Sita than herself! How can a wife tolerate her husband interested in another woman? Radha becomes jealous and doesn’t approve the words of Krishna? “Viraha” or separation from lover or spouse is unbearable. Things that are normal become abnormal for the lover! Gentle breeze becomes a gale, cool pleasant moonlight turns burning hot and every second of separation looks like a never ending year!
Radha is considered as a Goddess and eternal consort of Krishna. She is the embodiment of love, tenderness, compassion and devotion! She is also the chief of Gopis! During Krishna's youth, Radha appears as His lover and companion though He is not married to her. According to Brahmavaivartha Purana and Garga Samhitha Radha and Krishna were married. Radha was revered as the primary consort and wife of Krishna. She is also considered as the eternal counterpart and the internal potency of Krishna! She resides with Him in their abode Goloka! It is significant to note that Brahmavaivartha Purana centers around Krishna and Radha! Radha is also symbolic of the Jivatma or the Individual Soul trying to merge into the Brahman or the Absolute Soul!
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