Chapter LXIII

This is most typical Vaishnava poetry, in one breath blaming Krishna's wiles and proclaiming Him One without second. The note of blame is specially characteristic. In the _Prema Sāgara_:

_'He forsakes goodness; He accepts badness: deceit is pleasing
to Him!'_

In Tagore's King of the Dark Chamber:

_'Well, I tell you, your King's behaviour is--mean, brutal,
shameful!'_

In the _Krishna_ of 'A.E.'

_'I saw the King pass lightly from the beauty that he had betrayed._
_I saw him pass from love to love; and yet the pure, allowed
His claim_
_To be the purest of the pure, thrice holy, stainless, without
blame.'_

6. The golden jar is Krishna's body.

12, 13. All love is one, though you may reject it,--sacred or profane:

_'Cowl of the monk and bowl of wine, how shall the twain by
man be wed'?_
_Yet for the love I bear to thee, these to unite I dare for thee.'_

Hafiz (translated by Walter Leaf).

Vidyāpati might have written (since Vaishnavas never used the Sufī symbol of wine), 'Lust of the flesh and love of Thee . . . these to unite I dare for Thee.'