

After writing it, Jayadeva Swami thought its blasphemous to call out Radha to place her feet on paramatma's head and so he tore out the leaflet containing the verse and went out for a bath. In the said verse above, Jayadeva Swami writes that Sri Krishna, in his pangs of separation from Radha, cries out to Radha to place her feet over his head. Jayadeva Swami's Gita-Govindam is acclaimed by the learned to contain gems of insights into the mental workings of a true bhakta - and of his cravings of bhakti towards his lord.

May the intense heat of love-fire that is burning me be extinguished by them. Tonic to the poison of Kama, may your soft handsome feet be an ornament to Jvalati mayi dAruNo madanakadana analo haratu tat upAhita vikAram " "smaragaralakhanDanaM mama s'irasi maNDanaM dehi padapallavam udAraM In Gita Govindam, Jayadeva Swami sings: ( )
