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A 951 31 108 the heart of the devotee through the ear steals away all his evil desires.75 So, his ever-alert ears can catch the sweet tingling sound made by the bangles round the waste and ankles of Lord Krsna. 176 Describing the mental states of the parents after their son Lord Krsna return house killing Bakāsura Mādhavadeva writes : 'Life come back to their lifeless bodies, they smell their son on the head and lost themselves in the feelings of final love.177
Nose :
Tongue : 'Drink. O drink the nectar-like sweetness of the Lord's holy name.:78
Skin :
'O my life, imprisoned in the world of luxuries, catch holy of the Lord's feet and touch them. 79
Here, of course, the role of the Vaisnava's of Bengal is noteworty. Sri Rupa Goswāmī in his Bengali work, Kārikā. particularly in that section where the qualities of the Lord Krsna are being determined, refers to the five qualities of beauty, taste, smell, touch and sound and points out that these qualities reside respectively in the eye. the tongue. the nose. the skin and the ear of Rādhā.80 The
st phase of the story of love between Sri Rādha and Sri Krsna known as 'pūrvarāga "l begins at that stage when the five senses of Srī Rādhā are attracted to the five corresponding qualities of Lord Krsna. In an aphorism of Sri Rūpa Goswāmī quoted in the Caitanyacaritāmrta of Krsnadāsa Kavirāja it has been said: "The beauty of Lord Krsna, His touch. His words, His body-smell and His wet lips bring delight to the eyes, the skin, the ears, the nose and the tongue respectively of Srī Rādhā."82 Following this the Vaisnava poet of Bengal wrote: "Beauty has filled my eyes to the brim, remembering His touch the tremors of delight would not leave my body, my ears are filled with sound of His flute and have turned deaf to other sounds, the nose has become wild with His body-smell and lips do not pronounce anyother name". In this context other examples may be quoted from the Vaisnava literature of Bengal:
Eye : My eyes are crying to see the beauty of the Lord and my mind has got submerged in His qualities'.84 Describing the eyes lost in the enjoyment of beauty Vidyāpati has used a beautiful simile: "Just as the honey-bee beats its wings in vain, for it cannot fly for being intoxicated in drinking honey, so also do I fail to turn my eyes away from that beauty".85 In the language of Jñänadāsa: 'My eyes have got drowned in the ocean of beauty". 86
Tongue : 'Even then the sweetness of the name seems to be inexhaustible and my tongue goes on repeating it'.87 90 A |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||I TO U 3106 108
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