Dramatic QualitiesWith Examples From Vedic Literature
Part III
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Manipulative
Definition - manage to one’s own advantage, especially unfairly.
An example is found in the Toll Pastimes by Rupa Goswami.
The gopis bring milk products to be offered to the gods. Krishna and the cowherd boys block the path and demand that the gopis pay a toll in order to pass.
An example is found in the Toll Pastimes by Rupa Goswami.
The gopis bring milk products to be offered to the gods. Krishna and the cowherd boys block the path and demand that the gopis pay a toll in order to pass.
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Deception
Definition - to make a person believe what is false; to mislead purposely.
An example is found in Sri Vidagha-Madhava, Act three, text 46.
Mukhara: Rascal Lalita! I see Krishna tugging the edge of Radha’s clothing. Why do you try to fool me?
An example is found in Sri Vidagha-Madhava, Act three, text 46.
Mukhara: Rascal Lalita! I see Krishna tugging the edge of Radha’s clothing. Why do you try to fool me?
Lalita: (aside) At night, the old lady is almost blind. I will trick her. Blind old lady, you worry without reason. That is a tamal tree by the Jamuna. That is a golden bench by the tree roots. Moving in the wind, the branches tug at the girl’s bodice.
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Delusion
Definition - false belief or impression.
An example is found in Krishna Book Volume 2, Chapter 35.
The palaces of Dwaraka are being described. There are lakes, lotus flowers, swans, ducks cranes. “Lord Sri Krishna sometimes entered those lakes with His wives and enjoyed swimming pastimes with them in full jubilation.”
An example is found in Krishna Book Volume 2, Chapter 35.
The palaces of Dwaraka are being described. There are lakes, lotus flowers, swans, ducks cranes. “Lord Sri Krishna sometimes entered those lakes with His wives and enjoyed swimming pastimes with them in full jubilation.”
“The impersonalists would not dare to believe that in the spiritual world there are such varieties of enjoyment.”
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Arrogance
Definition - aggressively assertive or presumptions.
An example is found in Ujvala Nilamani.
An example is found in Ujvala Nilamani.
One of the groups of gopis is called prakara (harsh) who speak arrogantly. One time Krishna chastised a certain gopi for picking flowers in Vrindavan forest. When that gopi became very frightened by His words, one of the yuthesvaris said to her : Do you not have a friend by your side? Why do you tremble at heart? Is it because of this Krishna? My dear friend, I am accompanied by many intelligent gopis and strength is very formidable. I shall now stand before you, and raise my arms to defend you from this Krishna.
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Vanity
Definition - conceit about one’s appearance or attainments.
An example is found in Ujvala Nilamani
An example is found in Ujvala Nilamani
Syama gopi to Krsna: My dear Krsna, whose limbs are dark like a tamala tree, why do you throw these charming sidelong glances at us? I am Syama, famous as the guru of all pious, chaste girls in all three worlds. If you try to even lightly bind these doe-like gopis with Your sidelong glance, they will become furious, surround You, and violently attack You from all directions.
