メトロポリタン美術館のインスタグラム(metmuseum) - 7月15日 22時15分

Summer is here and so is festival season! Here, Hindu god Krishna plays the flute in the center of a whimsical celebration known as the Raslila. 🎶 He has replicated himself to dance with each of the gopis (female cowherds) circling around him. On a night that is said to last a billion years, the gods Indra, Brahma, and Shiva shower the crowd with tiny red and white flowers.⁣⁣
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See it on view in “Seeing the Divine: Pahari Painting of North India,” but hurry! The exhibition closes this Sunday, July 21. ⁣⁣
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🎨 Krishna Dances in the Raslila with the Gopis (Female Cowherds). India, Punjab Hills, kingdom of Basohli, ca. 1750. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper. On view in Gallery 251. #TheMet

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shama_dasi @alcibiaides Srimad Bhagavatm, 11th Canto. If I painted you sitting in your house eating dinner with your family, it’s a representation, as all art is, but it’s also a pastime, because it actually happened. Radha is not only a devotee, she is the other half of Krsna. Two souls, one body: and she is also the top most devotee. Radha is derived from “aradhana” worship. Whoever does the best worship, that is Radharani. I am a practicing Gaudiya Vaisnavi who studies these texts daily, under the guidance of my Uttamahabhagavat Guru. This is my whole life and soul. If you want to have a discussion to battle, I’m not interested. If you wanted to know more about Raslila directly from the ancient lineage that this pastime is derived from, I’m happy to discuss. These text are ancient and the meanings are clear and elaborated on by the sages, whom I call my holy teachers. If you want to understand Bhakti, you have to practice it. Trying to grab onto the meaning of this from a book is like trying to taste a new food dish by reading the menu. If you really want to be an authority on these subjects, you must humbly submit and dedicate yourself under the guidance of a qualified spiritual master. Otherwise, you’re eating the menu and trying to tell everyone what the dish tastes like.

shama_dasi @alcibiaides it’s not a representation, it’s a pastime. The illusory energy (maya) doesn’t exist in the spiritual world of Goloka Vrindavan, (prakrit Lila) or in Vrindavan on The earthly plane (aprakrit Lila) where this takes place. The point of the Raslila is to show the supremacy of Srimati Radharani as the topmost Gopi. Krsna leaves the Rasa dance and the Gopi’s find him with Radharani, proving she is the favorite. Material illusion, or Maha Maya Devi, has nothing to do with it at all. In Vrindavan, Yogamaya, causes illusion for the sake of enjoying pastimes. Not to be confused with the illusory energy we experience as conditioned souls. One maya causes material pain for the sake of spiritual realization (Maha Maya) and the other maya causes spiritual illusion to create and enhance the pastimes in the spiritual world. They are completely different. It’s wonderful to see so much interest in this. I’m glad it’s captivating for you. Thought you would enjoy learning more about it. Hope this comment finds you well ??

chas_prange I’m still searching for representation and publication if you think we might find a mutually beneficial professional collaboration between us. Please never hesitate to contact me for any reason. Best! Chas Prange Professional/Work Experience 1992-Present Experimenting constantly with film photography, digital photography, digital imagery, traditional and digital print making, painting, drawing, video, and conceptual art. Artist Statement In my work, I try to leave myself open to discovery. I explore each situation capturing moments in time and examing the way that light falls on a scene and the colors that are reflected. My photographs are interpretations of visual reality. Distillations of color and form that represent the instant of perception unbound by any preconceptions or expectations.

shama_dasi @alcibiaides that’s wonderful. If you really want to gain knowledge, find a teacher who has no self interest, doesn’t want your money or worshipers, women or wine and submit yourself completely to their qualified guidance. Then, very easily, realization can come, which is very different from knowledge. Knowing is good, but realizing, acting on these things, is better. Tasting is better than theory. If you’re reading alone and have some misconception, no one will be there to explain, to clear your confusion, without a teacher.. You can have all these things. Anyone can. No one is disqualified or unfit. No one is excluded based on their faith background, color or creed. Even the animals can benefit. If you want this, go find it. If you take one step towards Krishna, he takes a hundred towards you.

alcibiaides @shama_dasi art work is representation, and so is the raslila a representation of a narrative-- whichever one you choose to believe/read. Which text are you referring to for this interpretation? There is also a bhakti tradition which places Radha in the place of the devotee. Re my own post, I referred to the lived tradition of the practised ras at Nathdwara, which has an archive of this practise going back at least to the 18th c, when the prangan for the ras performance during Holi was made.

alcibiaides The Raslila isn't actually a festival or celebration though... It's an iconographical representation of the illusory nature of the universe. Although the ras is replayed during certain ritual celebrations of other designated "calendar" festivals, for example, during Holi and Janmastami celebrations at Nathdwara.

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