In Kṛṣṇa-saṁhitā, Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, prolific 19th century author and reformer of Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism, draws a profound comparison between the Rāsa-līlā pastime of Śrī Kṛṣṇa and the principle of electromagnetic attraction in particle physics: "In the world of matter wrought by Māyā, there is one main star that appears

(4) মনে পড়ে জননি গো ! সে-স্থান তোমার  mane paḍe janani go! se-sthāna tomāra That place of yours comes to mind, O mother! সায়ংকালে যথা বসি' সে পাঠানে (*) সার-  sāyaṁ-kāle jathā bosi’ se pāṭhāne sāra- Where, in the evening,

Vijana-grāma, the twenty-seven part poem that follows is at first glance a maudlin or wistful memoir, but between the lines of its innovatively disjointed couplets, the author—Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, who singlehandedly revived the current of the Bhakti movement in the late 19th century—paints a portrait of his own