The Pursuit of Love

The gito govinda was enormously popular at every level hindoo society. It united courtly salons and village squares in a shared religious culture of passionate intensity. Through all this, rada's love is so intense that she awakens god himself to new levels of passion. He kneels before her, anoints her as a goddess and calls her his true essence. Hinduism contains no doctrine of original sin. The purpose of the incarnations of various deities was less to save humanity than to lead humans to greater wisdom counter specific threats.