For 40 years, Krishna and the Gopis, has been for me a significant erotic and spiritual image. This is one of many images of the story. All the Gopis think they dance with Krishna and he also is dancing with each of them.

            There is an inward voice, that in the stream Sends forth its spirit to the listening ear, And in a calm content it floweth on, Like wisdom, welcome with its own respect. Clear in its breast lie all these beauteous thoughts. It doth receive the green and graceful trees,…