The Birds Begin Chirping<\/strong><\/p>\n Verse 11 Rasa-tarangini Tika: Just as a talented musician’s instrument induces the mind and body to dance in elation, the buzzing of the bees has the same effect on the Divine Couple. So Vrinda Devi has them begin their intoxicating concert within the flower vines. From there they enter the vilasa mandir to surround the flower bedstead with their sweet vibrations. Just as the sounds of the conch and kartals are pleasing to a mandir’s devata, so is the intoxicating buzzing of the male and female bees to R\u0101dh\u0101 Madhava, the deities of the vilasa mandir.<\/p>\n Verse 16 Verse 17 Rasa-tarangini Tika: Verses 11-18 The Birds Begin Chirping Verse 11 Seeing that night has come to an end, Vrinda Devi directs the forest birds under her command to awaken Madhusudan and his beloved Radhika. Verse 12 Since they have surrounded the nikunja mandir for that very purpose and are just waiting silently for her signal, despite their…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-govinda-lilamrita"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7315"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8169,"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7315\/revisions\/8169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shakti.tattva.se\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSeeing that night has come to an end, Vrinda Devi directs the forest birds<\/strong> under her command to awaken Madhusudan and his beloved Radhika.
\nVerse 12
\nSince they have surrounded the nikunja mandir for that very purpose and are just waiting silently for her signal, despite their anxiety to serve, as soon as they receive her signal, they immediately begin chirping enthusiastically from all directions!
\nVerse 13
\nThe sharis sing in the grapevines and the shukas call from the pomegranate saplings. The mango groves resound with the peacock’s cry, the bumble bees buzz in the flower latas, and the roosters crow on the ground! The Bees, Kokilas and Pigeons Resound
\nVerse 14
\nThe nikunja mandir is decorated with hanging flower garlands and a bed thickly smothered in lotus petals. The male bumble bees enter this enchanting mandir in search of pollen; their humming drone resembles the auspicious sound of Ratipati’s (the husband of Rati Devi,” i.e., Kamadeva) conchshell!
\nVerse 15
\nOverwhelmed with elation and intoxicated by the honey from the flowers, the delirious female bees make their gun-gun-gun-gun buzzing. This is likened to the clanging sound of kartals (jhankriti) made by Cupid’s wife.”<\/p>\n
\nThe male kokilas continuously cry: ku-h\u016b ku-h\u016b in the fifth note. Their sound reverberates like Cupid’s vina.<\/p>\n
\nSeated by their drunken husbands, the female kokilas relish the soft mango buds and indistinctly echo, ku-h\u016b ku-h\u016b.<\/p>\n
\nExpert in loud shrills and invoking pleasure, the kokila’s singing is so maudlin and sweet that it seems that Cupid and his wife have directly appeared to play the vina and vipanchi (a smaller stringed instrument or lute, usually played by women) Thus, R\u0101dh\u0101 Govinda can neither remain asleep nor sober!
\nVerse 18
\nThe sudden shriek of the pigeons resounds! Has Cupid taken the form of a hyena to plunder the doe-like patience, shyness, and dharma of the Vraja gopis? This shrieking shakes the gopis’ pride that resembles a tiger cub!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"