Sita looks affectionately but hesitantly towards her beloved (i.e. Lord Ram)’ as if a soft wind is trying to move a delicate creeper nearer to the Kalpa Tree. (Here, Sita is compared to the ‘creeper’, and Lord Ram to the Kalpa Tree. Sita’s wish was to get close to Lord Ram permanently and live with the Lord for the rest of her life just like the creeper that survives only when it wraps around the tree. The ‘soft wind’ here refers to the good turn of events that has enabled this to happen. It also may refer to the summons of the royal priest, Shatanand, inviting Sita with the victory garland to be put around the neck of Lord Ram. There is yet another way of interpreting this verse. When Sita approaches Lord Ram, she is full of emotions. Anxiety, helplessness and desperation have given way suddenly to happiness, success and fulfillment. She seems overwhelmed and overjoyed, not knowing what to say and how to react. As she approaches Lord Ram, her eyes flicker, once looking at the Lord’s charming face and then looking away. She hesitates to gaze at the Lord because it would be too immodest to do so, but at the same time she is unable to resist the desire to see the Lord’s charming and handsome form. This constant flickering of her sight is compared to the swaying of the creeper as it is buffeted by the wind—once moving closer to the trunk of the Kalpa Tree and then moving slightly away from it. In this comparison, the ‘wind’ would be the changing emotions of Sita—once impelling her to fix her sight on her beloved by foregoing formalities and neglecting social niceties and then deterring her from doing so as it would be deemed immodest and against traditions for a young girl to look at another person so intently.)