Symbol of Love: Flute Playing Krishna

Flute playing Krishna is pictured as a joyous situation of Krishna's life which represents love chastity, entertainment and romance.Every 'Arts form' in India served the need of masses and is very much about emotional equation, so in almost every art work, this act (flute playing) abundantly represents Krishna as God of the masses romance. The Vaishnava revival of the 11th and 12th centuries brought about by Ramanuja and saint poets like Jayadeva of Bengal gradually established Krishna as the supreme deity, the approachable hglorious Vishnu. Jayadeva's Gita Govindam, the song of the divine cowherd echoed the poet's deep spirituality with Krishna as the human soul attached to earthly pleasures and Radha , the wise divine. In 15th century and more particularly in the 16th and 17th centuries, there was a prolific popularity of paintings (specially miniature) based on the Bhagwata Purana and Gita Govinda . Later, the poetry of Surdas , Keshavadasa , Bihari a...