With his left hand over her left shoulder and nearly touching her left breast, Krishna attempts to teach Radha the finer points of playing the flute. When Krishna, sweetness and grace itself, played the flute, its impact was bewitching. Indeed, his flute, with its obvious phallic connotations, is but an extension of his beauty.
How can I describe his relentless flute, which pulls virtuous women from their homes and drags them by their hair to Krishna as thirst and hunger pull the doe to the snare? wise men forget their wisdom, and clinging vines shake loose from their trees, hearing that music. Then how shall a simple dairymaid withstand its call. --------------------Chandidasa (circa 15th century) The Bhagwata Purana says that when the strains of his flute wafted through Vrindavan, all things became intoxicated with passion. Not even the wives of gods could resist its call. It was as if all of creation for a moment stopped to listen rapt in attention. As he played, clouds bent low to come closer to him, plants and creepers swayed in silent salute, the reeds from which his flute was made wept tears of joy and rivers slowed their pace in involuntary obeisance. Vallabhacharaya has categorized the sound of Krishna's flute into five kinds: When the lord plays with his flute to the left, passion awakes in women; when his face is to the right, desire surges in both men and women; when his face points upwards, Kama (physical desire) infuses the gods; and when downwards, animals and birds become its prey; and when he plays straight ahead, even insentient things cannot insulate themselves from its effect.
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