{"id":46607,"date":"2015-09-13T19:01:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T19:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=46607"},"modified":"2015-09-13T19:01:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T19:01:57","slug":"krishna-meet-radha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=46607","title":{"rendered":"Krishna, meet Radha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; Muslims in India celebrate Krishna and his beloved ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amicable coexistence.  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here we see a Muslim father in India, with his daughter arrayed as <strong>Radha<\/strong>, the beloved, lover, and companion of the Hindu deity Krishna:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Radha-and-father-602.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Radha-and-father-602.png\" alt=\"Radha and father 602\" width=\"602\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Radha-and-father-602.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Radha-and-father-602-300x224.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m posting it here because it beautifully complements another photo which you may have seen before, since I&#8217;ve posted it here at least once:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Krishna-and-mother-602.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Krishna-and-mother-602.png\" alt=\"Krishna and mother 602\" width=\"602\" height=\"385\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Krishna-and-mother-602.png 602w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Krishna-and-mother-602-300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here a Muslim mother is walking with her son dressed in the costume of <strong>Krishna<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Krishna is a manifestation of the divine as playful, beautiful, musical, seductive. He steals the hearts of his devotees, both male and female, with the entrancing music of his flute &#8212; but it is Radha who is his beloved.<\/p>\n<p>For a full appreciation of the love between Radha and Krishna, the Bengali poet-saints have composed numerous songs. In this one, it is Radha who speaks: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How can I describe his relentless flute,<br \/>\nwhich pulls virtuous women from their homes<br \/>\nand drags them by their hair to Shyam<br \/>\nas thirst and hunger pull the doe to the snare?<br \/>\nChaste ladies forget their wisdom,<br \/>\nand clinging vines shakes loose from their trees,<br \/>\nhearing that music.<br \/>\nThen how shall a simple dairymaid withstands its call?<\/p>\n<p>Chandidasa says,<br \/>\nKala the puppet master leads the dance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can recommend two books on the topic, the first exploring the theology of Radha and Krishna as sung by the wandering saints of Bengal, the second offering a selection of poems which might be sung of an evening to recount the story of their love, and from which the example above was taken:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><strong>Edward Dimock<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Place-Hidden-Moon-Mysticism-Vaisnava-Sahajiya\/dp\/0226152375\">The Place of the Hidden Moon: Erotic Mysticism in the Vaisnava-Sahajiya Cult of Bengal<\/a>\n<li><strong>Edward Dimock<\/strong> and <strong>Denise Levertov<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/In-Praise-Krishna-Songs-Bengali\/dp\/0226152316\">In Praise of Krishna: Songs from the Bengali<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; Muslims in India celebrate Krishna and his beloved ] . Amicable coexistence. Here we see a Muslim father in India, with his daughter arrayed as Radha, the beloved, lover, and companion of the Hindu deity Krishna: I&#8217;m posting it here because it beautifully complements another photo which you may have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,832,560,753,688,533,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-hinduism","category-india","category-islam","category-peace","category-religion","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46607"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46622,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46607\/revisions\/46622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}