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Arising out of a devotional and enthusiastic non secular flow that swept throughout such a lot of northern and jap India within the interval from the fourteenth during the 17th centuries, the robust and relocating lyrics accrued and skillfully translated the following depict the affection of Radha for the god Krishna—a love whose depth and diversity of feelings hint the process all real love among guy and girl and among guy and God. Intermingling actual and metaphysical imagery, the non secular longing for the divine is articulated within the passionate language of excessive sensual wish for an impossible to resist yet finally unpossessable lover, therefore touching a resonant chord in our humanity.

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