{"id":48493,"date":"2023-03-15T02:45:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T06:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=48493"},"modified":"2023-10-02T16:52:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T20:52:25","slug":"the-smiling-faces-and-restless-eyes-of-her-sakhis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/the-smiling-faces-and-restless-eyes-of-her-sakhis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smiling Faces and Restless Eyes of Her Sakh\u012bs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sakhis-and-Divine-Couple.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-48494 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sakhis-and-Divine-Couple-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sakhis-and-Divine-Couple-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sakhis-and-Divine-Couple.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">R\u0101dh\u0101-Govinda awoke at the same time and stretched Their limbs. R\u0101dh\u0101\u2019s extended body looked like a bow of golden campaka flowers and Krishna\u2019s resembled a bow of blue lotuses. Giving up each other\u2019s embrace, R\u0101dh\u0101-M\u0101dhava felt pangs of separation. They tightly embraced again and experienced intense bliss<a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/F1746352-4AB4-4DC2-9A66-6EAEA3551866#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\" rel=\"nofollow\">[1]<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">The joyful sakh\u012bs, with gentle sweet smiles, pushed each other toward the entrance of the ku\u00f1ja. They were unhappy over the arrival of dawn. The sakh\u012bs timidly entered the ku\u00f1ja along with a swarm of humming bees. R\u0101dh\u0101\u2019s pleasure doubled upon seeing the smiling faces and restless eyes of Her sakh\u012bs. R\u0101dh\u0101 immediately got up from Her lover\u2019s lap to greet them. In Her rush to stand up, R\u0101dh\u0101 had covered Herself with Krishna\u2019s yellow cloth. She looked shyly at the sakh\u012bs and then sat down beside Krishna<a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/F1746352-4AB4-4DC2-9A66-6EAEA3551866#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\" rel=\"nofollow\">[2]<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">R\u0101dh\u0101-M\u0101dhava smiled to greet Their joyful and affectionate sakh\u012bs. In their association, the bud of R\u0101dh\u0101-M\u0101dhava\u2019s beauty<a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/F1746352-4AB4-4DC2-9A66-6EAEA3551866#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\" rel=\"nofollow\">[3]<\/a> fully blossomed. That r\u016bpa-ma\u00f1jar\u012b<a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/F1746352-4AB4-4DC2-9A66-6EAEA3551866#_ftn4\" name=\"_ftnref4\" rel=\"nofollow\">[4]<\/a>\u00a0 most expertly served the Divine Couple.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/F1746352-4AB4-4DC2-9A66-6EAEA3551866#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\" rel=\"nofollow\">[1]<\/a> Krishna-bh\u0101van\u0101m\u1e5btam 1.25<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/F1746352-4AB4-4DC2-9A66-6EAEA3551866#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\" rel=\"nofollow\">[2]<\/a> Govinda-l\u012bl\u0101m\u1e5bta 1.60-62<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/F1746352-4AB4-4DC2-9A66-6EAEA3551866#_ftnref3\" name=\"_ftn3\" rel=\"nofollow\">[3]<\/a> r\u016bpa-ma\u00f1jar\u012b<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/F1746352-4AB4-4DC2-9A66-6EAEA3551866#_ftnref4\" name=\"_ftn4\" rel=\"nofollow\">[4]<\/a> Bud of beauty<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">This is a section of the book \u201cVrindavana Lila\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">To buy the complete book,<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kadachaeditions.com\/art\/vrindavana-lila-english\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">click above<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; R\u0101dh\u0101-Govinda awoke at the same time and stretched Their limbs. R\u0101dh\u0101\u2019s extended body looked like a bow of golden campaka flowers and Krishna\u2019s resembled a bow of blue lotuses. Giving up each other\u2019s embrace, R\u0101dh\u0101-M\u0101dhava &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/the-smiling-faces-and-restless-eyes-of-her-sakhis\/\" aria-label=\"The Smiling Faces and Restless Eyes of Her Sakh\u012bs\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":48494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-vrindavana-vrajamandala"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-01 09:27:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}