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Some of my friends ask me to give some thing about the relation between Radha and Krishna… how many of us know that Radha is the wife of Ayana.. pls read and comment ( for this I refer many site and collect details also)

The Radha-Krishna Love and the Fact

The Radha-Krishna amour is a love legend of all times. It's indeed hard to miss the many legends and paintings illustrating Krishna's love affairs, of which the Radha-Krishna affair is the most memorable. Krishna's relationship with Radha, his favorite among the 'gopis' (cow-herding maidens), has served as a model for male and female love in a variety of art forms, and since the sixteenth century appears prominently as a motif in North Indian paintings.

Krishna's youthful dalliances with the 'gopis' are interpreted as symbolic of the loving interplay between God and the human soul. Radha's utterly rapturous love for Krishna and their relationship is often interpreted as the quest for union with the divine. This kind of love is of the highest form of devotion in Vaishnavism, and is symbolically represented as the bond between the wife and husband or beloved and lover.

Radha, daughter of Vrishabhanu, was Krishna's lover during that period of his life when he lived among the cowherds of Vrindavan. Since childhood they were close to each other - they played, they danced, they fought, they grew up together and wanted to be together forever, but the world pulled them apart. He departed to safeguard the virtues of truth, and she waited for him. He vanquished his enemies, became the king, and came to be worshipped as a lord of the universe. She waited for him. He married Rukmini and Satyabhama, raised a family, fought the great war of Ayodhya, and she still waited. So great was Radha's love for Krishna that even today her name is uttered whenever Krishna is refered to, and Krishna worship is though to be

incomplete without the deification of Radha.

One day the two most talked about lovers come together for a final single meeting. The union of Radha and Krishna in this ceremonious 'Gandharva' form of their wedding in front of five hundred and sixty million people of Vraj and all the gods and goddesses of heaven. The sage Vyasa refers to this as the 'Rasa'. Age after age, this evergreen love theme has engrossed poets, painters, musicians and all Krishna devotees alike.

The relationship of Radha and Krishna is the embodiment of love, passion and devotion. Radha's passion for Krishna symbolizes the soul's intense longing and willingness for the ultimate unification with God. Krishna is the soul of Radha and Radha is definitely the soul of Krishna. She is the undivided form of Krishna. She will remain a mystery unless one can know her inexpressible divine elements. She is worshipper as well as his deity to be worshipped. She being a beloved of Krishna is known

as "Radhika".

The whole universe material and spiritual is the creation of Radha - Krishna. Radha is the presiding Goddess of Krishna. The Paramatma - supreme Lord - is subservient to her. In her absence Krishna does not exist.

Krishna is not only the ultimate object of all love, but also is the topmost enjoyer of all loving relationships. Therefore, in the dynamic and expanding form of Krishna, He has unlimited desires to enjoy spiritual loving relationships or pastimes, known as leela. To do this, He expands Himself into the dual form of Krishna and Radha, His eternal consort and topmost devotee. In other words, Radha is the feminine aspect of Lord Krishna and is non-different from Krishna, but together (both the masculine and feminine aspects). They fulfill the purpose of engaging in sublime loving pastimes to exhibit supremely

transcendental loving exchanges.

Brajbhoomi where Lord Krishna was born comprises the twin cities of Mathura and Vrindavan. It is not just a sacred land where Lord Krishna was born and performed His cosmic leela, but a place full of divine reminiscences. It was here that He ultimately found Radha, His inseparable companion. Vrindavan, 15 km from Mathura. The lotus-eyed, dark skinned Krishna is the complete and perfect man of Indian mythological traditions. That makes Krishna a major non-Aryan God in the Hindu

pantheon. He was the eighth incarnation of Vishnu, the Preserver of Universe. He took the human form to redeem mankind from evil forces. Krishna was physically irresistibly appealing. Ancient texts dwell at length on his exceptionally alluring countenance: a blue complexion soft like the monsoon cloud ( there hindu Find God with the same colour of Atom in modern Science and the Colour of the sea and the Sky that we learn anoraniyan mahtho mahiyan alma ghuhayam that is why Krishna (Vishnu) represent the colour blue), shining locks of black hair framing a beautifully chiseled face, large lotus like eyes, wild -flower garlands around his neck, a yellow garment (pitambara) draped

around his body, a crown of peacock feathers on his head, and a smile playing on his lips, it is in this manner that he is faithfully represented since the ancient times to the modern.

Krishna was born in a prison cell in Mathura. Legend has it that Mathura was ruled by a king called Ugrasena. One day, Ugrasena and his wife were taking a walk in the gardens, where a demon saw the queen and fell in love with her. In this lust for her, he diverted the attention of Ugrasena, assumed his form himself and fulfilled his desire. The child born of this union was Kamsa. Kamsa grew up to dethrone his father and imprison his sister Devaki (daughter of Ugrasena) and her husband Vasudeva. Devki later became the mother of Krishna.

It so happened that on the day Kamsa was driving his newly married sister and her husband Vasudeva to their new home, a voice from the heavens intercepted him. The voice conveyed to him that the eighth child of Devki would kill Kamsa. Consequently, he imprisoned the couple and started killing their children, year after year. Seven children were lost but the eighth one - the Lord escaped the hands of the butcher and lived on to slay Kamsa later. Lord Krishna was born at midnight on the 8th day of the dark half of the month of Bhadrapada (August-September) and was brought to Vrindavan by Vasudeva (Krishna's father) on the same night to save Him from Kamsa. He was brought up in Vrindavan by the cowherd family of

Yashoda and Nanda Raja.

Radha is recognized as the loveliest of all the cowgirls. She was the wife of Ayana and the daughter of the cowherd Vrishabhanu and his wife, Kamalavati. Radha was a childhood friend and soulmate of Krishna and the two were inseparable as playmates and later as lovers. Theirs was a love hidden from society, given Radha's status of a married woman. They had their moments of love, passion and anger - just like any two lovers in love and yet their love could not stand the test of duty that Krishna had to face. He

had to leave Vrindavan, and Radha, to ensure that the ideals of truth and justice were established but in the process had to let down the ideal of personal love. He became a king, defeated innumerable enemies and even married a number of times. And yet it is said Radha kept waiting for him to come back to her. Her love for Krishna is considered so divine and so pure that Radha herself obtained the status of a deity, with her name being insperably linked to that of Krishna. Most of Krishna's images are considered complete when Radha stands by his side.

The word Radha means the greatest worshiper of Krishna. No other gopi in Vrindavana has such a significant name as Sri Radha. Of course, all the Braja gopis love and give pleasure to Krishna. However, compared to Radhika's ocean of love for Krishna, the other gopis are merely pools, ponds and rivers. As the ocean is the original source of all the water found in lakes and rivers, similarly the love found in the gopis, and in all the other devotees has its origin in Sri Radha alone. Since Radha's love is the greatest, she gives the greatest pleasure to Krishna. 'Krishna enchants the whole world, but Srimati Radhika enchants even Him. Therefore, Radha is the Supreme Goddess.' In Vrindavana, people are accustomed to chant Radha's name more than Krishna's name.

Radha's love for Krishna is all consuming and compels her to ignore her family honor and disregard her husband. Radha serves as a symbol for all of the Gopi girls' love for Krishna. Their relationship develops on Krishna's captivating charm and aura of passion as Radha falls into a state of desire for this God. Radha is the soul; Krishna is the God. Krishna is the shaktiman - possessor of energy - and Radha is His shakti - energy. She is the female counterpart of the Godhead. She is the personification of the highest love of God, and by her mercy the soul is connected with the

service and love of Krishna.

The relationship between Radha and Krishna is the example of the highest and purest love, an indissoluble union of the highest intermingling and completion; it is also a love expressed through music. Music underlines the illicit relationship; this love shadowed by secrecy, adultery and scorn, finds its outlet in Krishna's charming and passionate musical talents.

Radha is married or involved with someone else, and still cannot resist Krishna's musical call. In being with Him she risks social censure, alienation and humiliation. Riddled with shame and inappropriateness, this is hardly a relationship that purportedly embodies the highest union of pure love. Music becomes the voice of their illicit love which is too passionate, and secretive. Krishna is the cosmic musician who woos the gopi's (cowherd girls) with his tunes. Krishna's flute sounds so powerful that they embodied the energy of the cosmos. His beauty, charm and musical skill impassion women everywhere; at the sound of his flute playing, the gopis

"jump up in the middle of putting on her makeup, abandon her family while eating a meal, leave food to burn on the stove, and run out of her home to be with Krishna". In the embrace of Krishna, the gopis, maddened with desire, found refuge; in their love dalliance with him who was the master in all the sixty-four arts of love, the gopis felt a thrill indescribable; and in making love with him in that climatic moment of release, in that one binding moment, they felt that joy and fulfillment which could not but be an aspect of the divine.

Through their experience, thus, the erotic the carnal and the profane became but an aspect of the sublime, the spiritual and the divine. This cumulative myth sustained one basic point: for women, Krishna was a personal god, always accessible and unfailingly responsive. He was a god specially made for women. In the popular psyche, Krishna and Radha became the universal symbol for the lover and the beloved. Krishna was the ideal hero, and Radha the ideal heroine.

This is the tie that binds Him and Radha; erotic musical passion overrides the social and female responsibilities Radha is tied to and she relinquishes herself to her adulterous, but passionate affair with Krishna.

Krishna led a very pampered and amorous life in the Gokul, alongside thousands of gopicas, the cowherdresses who were all enthralled at His beauty and were thrilled whenever He played the flute. There are numerous playful instances of Krishna, playing mischief with the gopikas including breaking their butter pots.

Krishna represents the private life of the Absolute. His relationship with Radha, His Divine consort, actually constitutes the private life of Krishna. In this relationship, Love reigns supreme as Krishna surrenders to Radha. Krishna is lovestruck while Radha has taken over control. He has surrendered to the Power of Love. Very few people really understand this relationship and the message it contains. The supreme object of devotion, Krishna, worships the highest devotion, Radha. The zenith of Radha and Krishna's love affair is the Raas-Leela, the circular dance of love. The Raas-Leela points to the highest potential of the soul. It is within this context of the circular dance that the highest is couched in apparent selfishness.

Radha Krishna is the original principle of loving relationships (conjugal Love). The sex principle exists in the Absolute in its pure form without any inebriety or impurity, because Krishna is in fact Radha. In other words, the Lord is one, but for His pleasure and enjoyment, He expands himself to enjoy loving relationships. The original expansion is Radha. Together, Radha and Krishna enjoy eternal pastimes of transcendental love.

Real love exists between Radha and Krishna. Real love is transcendental and spiritual. We have to become attracted to spiritual love and give up false love and beauty, which are only skin-deep. There is nothing beautiful underneath the skin. Krishna consciousness means to be serious and determined to transcend the material attraction between man and woman in order to become attracted to the lotus feet of Radha and Krishna.

"The sum and substance of material life is attraction for woman. And the sum and substance of spiritual life is attraction for Radha-Krishna".

with regards

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Namaste veenaji

First My Heaty Congratulation for your great sucess and we all Kannan devottes are proud of you.

Thanks for your attention. did you read my other posting regarding our kannan please go thru it may be you will be happy.

 

Herewith I attach what I send after my first posting about Radha and kannan.

 

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OM NAMO NARAYANAYA NAMA

 

 

 

 

 

 

Implied meaning of Lord Krishna’s relationship with Radha and the Gopis About Radha: Radha is the manifest form of devotion unto Krishna . In response to the question, "How devoted should one be?"’ the Naradbhaktisutra writes, "Like the gopis (wives of the cowherds) of Vraj." Krishna Himself sent His great friend Uddhav to the gopis to teach him what devotion meant. The incident goes as follows - ‘Once to illustrate the devotion of the gopis, Sri Krishna pretended that He had intense headache, which did not respond to any medicine. Then He told, “ Krishna ’s pain will vanish with the application of mud beneath anyone’s feet. However, the one giving the mud beneath his feet will die. Proclaim this and then bring the mud that anyone gives.” No one was prepared to give the mud from under their feet. On entering Gokul, when Uddhav asked this question to the first gopi that he met, she replied, “If the mud under my feet will relieve Krishna ’s headache then I am prepared even to go to hell.” ‘

The devotion of the gopis is an illustration of ultimate devotion. Radha among them was like a jewel in the crown. Common misconceptions about Lord Krishna and Radha’s relationship: Radha’s spiritual love (priti) that is devotion unto Krishna has been misinterpreted as love in the Radha-Krishna relationship. Its futility will be realized if one considers Krishna ’s age at that time. When Krishna left Gokul permanently He was only seven years old; thus His relationship with Radha was only during the period when He was three to seven years old. The significance and implied meaning of Lord Krishna’s flute:

The sound of the flute means the anahat sound (the unceasing subtle sound of the universe). That sound had made the gopis (wives of the cowherds) crazy for Lord Krishna. So one will realize how highly spiritually evolved they were (as the spiritual experience of anahat sound is a high level experience). When leaving Gokul, Krishna gave His flute to Radha and never played it again. Thus, He made sure that She constantly got the spiritual experience of Absoluteness (Purnatva), which is superior to anahat sound.

Implied meaning: ‘Water flows from a higher to a lower level. It is called a stream (dhara). When the letters of the word dhara are reversed the word becomes radha. That stream which flows from below upwards is called radhagati. When it reaches the origin, it gets a spiritual experience of being Radha Herself. Acquisition of this state itself is called “blending into zero” or “sainthood”. In other words, Radha and Krishna were one and the same. Hence, although Radha had merged into Krishna , She continued to worship Him for the sake of guiding the other gopis. One will think that once a gopi reaches the zenith, she will see several Radhas. Those following Radha, that is those seekers following the Path of Devotion, will see only one Radha because there is no duality in spiritual love, only non-duality.’ Special Features of Lord Krishna Krishna was an absolute incarnation (paripurnavatar). His special features are given in ‘Science of Spirituality : Vol. 7 - Supreme God, God, Incarnations and Deities’. An absolute incarnation is not actually an incarnation but The Lord Himself; hence it possesses all the characteristics of The Lord. Some special features and missions of Lord Krishna are enumerated below. Childhood Devaki and Vasudev were the parents of Krishna . On the command of Lord Vishnu, the Great Illusion (Yogamaya)

placed the seventh child of Devaki in the womb of Vasudev’s second wife, Rohini and Herself entered the womb of Devaki. After birth when Kansa came to kill Her, She escaped from his clutches and left for Her abode. Krishna is Devaki’s eighth child. After He was born, Vasudev took Him to the home of Nanda and Yashoda in Gokul. Vasudev also sent Rohini along with her son to Gokul. The priest of the Yadu dynasty, Sage Garga at the request of Vasudev, secretly performed the naming ceremony of

both the children, Rohini’s son as Rama and Devaki’s as Krishna . Later Rama came to be known as Balaram because of the tremendous strength that He possessed. Childhood only for seven years: Krishna went to Mathura to slay Kamsa at the age of seven years. It was then that His childhood ended. Intelligent: After the slaying of Kamsa and the thread ceremony, Balaram and Krishna went to the ashram of Guru Sandipani in the city of Avanti . There within a span of sixty-four days He learnt the fourteen types of sciences (vidyas) and the sixty-four arts (kalas). Generally to

learn one science one requires two to two and a half years. Elders heed His advice: He was close even to people who were much older than Him. At the age of just seven, Krishna did not allow the milkmaids to go to Mathura because He did not want the money that was procured by selling milk to evil Kansa. Since then, the elders began to heed

His advice and He proved true to their faith. Bestower of spiritual experiences 1. Once the cowherds (gopas) told Yashoda, “ Krishna has swallowed mud.” So, she asked Krishna to open His mouth. When He opened it, she got the vision of the entire universe in it. This example illustrates how an incarnation carries out its mission even in childhood.

2. On a moonlit night in autumn (sharad rutu) He performed the rasakrida with the gopis (wives of the cowherds) in Gokul. At that time they experienced Bliss (Brahmanand).

Physical: Krishna’s beauty was unparalleled. All would get enticed by it.

To capture Krishna, Jarasandha’s armies surrounded Mathura eighteen times. Nowhere in the world have so many attempts been made to capture an individual. Kansa ferried 280 elephants on wooden rafts across the Yamuna

river. He surrounded Mathura for three months, but Krishna could not be captured because He would change His home everyday. Apart from this, the thousand children living in Mathura also wore peacock feathers in their hair to resemble Krishna . Kansa’s soldiers assaulted them, yet they did not reveal ‘who the real Krishna was’. His wives 1. Rukmini was Krishna ’s chief queen. His seven other main queens were Satyabhama, Jambavati,

Kalindi, Mitravinda, Satya, Bhadra and Kakshamana. These eight queens represent the eightfold basic natures of man (prakruti). The implied meaning is that the eight principles are within the control of Krishna .

Krishna killed Narakasura by the request of Tharakadevi (mother of Narakasura) for the freedom of ladies one who are suffering under the imprison of Narakasura and freed those 16000 ladies . When this ladies gone to there home there family did not accept that ladies because of they are under the custody of Narakasura. Then this ladies come back to Lord Krishna and request him to protect. At that time Lord Krishna give this ladies Status of Queen, then all the people ready to accept them , so that they acquired social status and family status and they get married also ( Please think Once more same like this happen At China in AD1946 when Mao Sethung set free the ladies from the jail that ladies also refused by the society at that time Mao Sethung give this ladies National women status certificate.. The person one who marry will get job , tax free and many benefits and all that ladies then accepted by the society .. from where Mao Sethung got this idea from Krishna or Krishna got this idea from Mao sethung . I leave this conclusion for your imagination) The 16,000 princesses represent the 16,000 spiritual energy flow channels (nadis) in the body. Marrying them means activating them. This was misinterpreted by many fellows and say Lord Krishna got 16008 wives. Supernatural powers: Sri Krishna had eighteen supernatural powers in all, eight being the eight great supernatural powers (ashtamahasiddhis) – represented by His eight wives, and the rest His own (God’s) ten supernatural powers. It was with one of these supernatural powers that Krishna assumed the form of ‘provider of clothes’ to save Droupadi’s honor. With this form, He provided clothing to her when she was being stripped in the court of the Kouravas. Adorning the peacock feather: The center of minute observation is the focus of supra-sensory energy. When it gets activated, the house of Vaishvanar and the horoscope in it assume the form of a peacock feather. The peacock feather adorned by Lord Krishna signified that this center of minute observation was perpetually active in Him.

 

 

 

 

 

Chronology of Events in Lord Krishna’s Life

 

 

 

This chronology has been decided based mainly on the Mahabharata, the Harivansh and the Bhagavat Gita.

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Period of Time

 

 

Event

 

 

Before Salivahan Shak

 

Before Christ

 

 

3263 [the eight day (astami) of the dark fortnight of Shravan]

 

3185

 

Birth of Krishna

 

 

3244

 

3167

 

Slaying of Kansa

 

 

3241

 

3163

 

Akrur's departure to Hastinapur

 

 

3238

 

3160

 

Marriage to Rukmini

 

 

3236

 

3158

 

Birth of Pradyumna

 

 

3220

 

3142

 

Droupadi's selection of her groom (svayam var)

 

 

3218

 

3140

 

Establishment of Indraprastha

 

 

3212

 

3134

 

Marriage of Pradyumna

 

 

3210

 

3132

 

Arjuna's embaking on a pilgrimage

 

 

3198

 

3120

 

Abduction of Subhadra

 

 

3196

 

3118

 

Birth of Abhimanyu

 

 

3195

 

3117

 

The rajasuya sacrificial fire (yadnya)

 

 

3193

 

3115

 

Loss of Hastinapur in a game of dice

 

 

3180 (Margashirsha)

 

3101

 

The Bharatiya war

 

 

3180 (Phalgun)

 

3101

 

Marriage of Aniruddha

 

 

3144 (Margashirsha)

 

3065

 

Krishna's renunciation of His body (age 119 years)

 

Om Namo Narayanaya

with regards

dilip --- On Wed, 8/13/08, Veena <veeus18 wrote:

Veena <veeus18Re: [Guruvayur] Radha is wife of Ayana not the wife of Krishnaguruvayur Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 7:16 AM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Om Namo Narayanaya.

 

Namaste Dilipji.

 

Yoy have posted an interesting article on the relationship between Radha & Krishna. I would also request you to check out a very beautiful and scholarly piece, written by Sarojaji, on the Raasakreeda and the love between the gopis/Radha and Krishna, . I am reproducing a short excerpt below. Pl. read message 2908, June 26, 2006 from the group archives, http://groups. / group/guruvayur/ message/2908? threaded= 1 for the complete text:--

 

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"........... ..I am giving below the significance of rasakreeda and theRadhakrishna concept.By contemplating on Him as a butter thief our dishonest desiresdisappear. By imagining Him as bound to the mortar our bondage isbroken and by meditating on Him as the lover of gopis our lust isdestroyed.When the mind is fully engaged in the Lord it becomes the flute inHis hand, a hollow tube full of holes through which all theimpurities have been washed off. then His fingers move through theholes and fills it with divine music. When the mind wants to unitewith Him but is not able to do so due to egocentric impulses thatseparates it from Him , the resulting sorrow is depicted as theviraha of the gopies and Radha.The gopies went to meet Krishna but they were never missed athome, says Bhaagavatha Puraana. Their union was one of spirit and notof body. When the thought is centered on the object of

love it is theunion of the spirit. When every thought that occurs is centered onthe Lord the devotee's mind becomes a stage for Rasleela. Eachthought is the gopi having Krishna as its object. this idea isbrought out beautifully in the sloka anganaam anganaam anthareMaadhavo Maadhavam Maadhavam anthare anganaa there was a Krishnabetween each gopi and there was a gopi between each Krishna. Thenwhat happens is the divine music played by Devakinandhana, When allthoughts merge into one like the big fish swallowing the smaller onesor like a big wave absorbing the small waves the mind is filledwith only one thought which is represented by the concept of Radha,who is the jiva, the individual soul.When the jiva turns towards the Lord it finds that it is unable todo so blinded by ego born out of ignorance. Then the Acharya advisesthe jiva to shed its ego and approach the Lord with humility andlove. This

is the part played by the sakhi friend of Radha, in thelegends of Radha-Krishna. The Lord is ever merciful and ready toreceive the jiva with outstreched arms and He is as eager to unitewith the jiva, if not more, as the jiva itself...... ......... ."

 

--- On Tue, 7/29/08, DILIP KUMAR RAVINDRAN <prdili > wrote:

DILIP KUMAR RAVINDRAN <prdili >[Guruvayur] Radha is wife of Ayana not the wife of KrishnaTuesday, July 29, 2008, 9:45 AM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Namaste

Some of my friends ask me to give some thing about the relation between Radha and Krishna … how many of us know that Radha is the wife of Ayana.. pls read and comment ( for this I refer many site and collect details also)

The Radha-Krishna Love and the Fact

The Radha-Krishna amour is a love legend of all times. It's indeed hard to miss the many legends and paintings illustrating Krishna 's love affairs, of which the Radha-Krishna affair is the most memorable. Krishna's relationship with Radha, his favorite among the 'gopis' (cow-herding maidens), has served as a model for male and female love in a variety of art forms, and since the sixteenth century appears prominently as a motif in North Indian paintings.

Krishna's youthful dalliances with the 'gopis' are interpreted as symbolic of the loving interplay between God and the human soul. Radha's utterly rapturous love for Krishna and their relationship is often interpreted as the quest for union with the divine. This kind of love is of the highest form of devotion in Vaishnavism, and is symbolically represented as the bond between the wife and husband or beloved and lover. Radha, daughter of Vrishabhanu, was Krishna 's lover during that period of his life when he lived among the cowherds of Vrindavan. Since childhood they were close to each other - they played, they danced, they fought, they grew up together and wanted to be together forever, but the world pulled them apart. He departed to safeguard the virtues of truth, and she waited for him. He vanquished his enemies, became the king, and came to be worshipped as a lord of the universe. She waited for him. He married Rukmini and Satyabhama, raised a family, fought the great war of Ayodhya, and she still waited. So great was Radha's love for Krishna that even today her name is uttered whenever Krishna is refered to, and Krishna worship is though to be incomplete without the deification of

Radha. One day the two most talked about lovers come together for a final single meeting. The union of Radha and Krishna in this ceremonious 'Gandharva' form of their wedding in front of five hundred and sixty million people of Vraj and all the gods and goddesses of heaven. The sage Vyasa refers to this as the 'Rasa'.

Age after age, this evergreen love theme has engrossed poets, painters, musicians and all Krishna devotees alike. The relationship of Radha and Krishna is the embodiment of love, passion and devotion. Radha's passion for Krishna symbolizes the soul's intense longing and willingness for the ultimate unification with God. Krishna is the soul of Radha and Radha is definitely the soul of Krishna . She is the undivided form of Krishna . She will remain a mystery unless one can know her inexpressible divine elements. She is worshipper as well as his deity to be worshipped. She being a beloved of Krishna is known as "Radhika". The whole universe material and spiritual is the creation of Radha - Krishna . Radha is the presiding Goddess of Krishna . The Paramatma - supreme Lord - is subservient to her. In her absence Krishna does not exist. Krishna is not only the ultimate object of all love, but also is the topmost enjoyer of all loving relationships. Therefore, in the dynamic and expanding form of Krishna , He has unlimited desires to enjoy spiritual loving relationships or pastimes, known as leela. To do this, He expands Himself into the dual form of Krishna and Radha, His eternal consort and topmost devotee. In other words, Radha is the feminine aspect of Lord Krishna and is non-different from Krishna , but together (both the masculine and feminine aspects). They fulfill the purpose of engaging in sublime loving pastimes to exhibit supremely transcendental loving exchanges. Brajbhoomi where Lord Krishna was born comprises the twin cities of Mathura and Vrindavan. It is not just a sacred land where Lord Krishna was born and performed His cosmic leela, but a place full of divine reminiscences. It was here that He ultimately found Radha, His inseparable companion. Vrindavan, 15 km from Mathura . The lotus-eyed, dark skinned Krishna is the complete and perfect man of Indian mythological traditions. That makes Krishna a major non-Aryan God in the Hindu pantheon. He was the eighth incarnation of Vishnu, the Preserver of Universe. He took the human form to redeem mankind from evil forces. Krishna was physically irresistibly appealing. Ancient texts dwell at length on his exceptionally alluring countenance: a blue complexion soft like the monsoon cloud (

there hindu Find God with the same colour of Atom in modern Science and the Colour of the sea and the Sky that we learn anoraniyan mahtho mahiyan alma ghuhayam that is why Krishna (Vishnu) represent the colour blue), shining locks of black hair framing a beautifully chiseled face, large lotus like eyes, wild -flower garlands around his neck, a yellow garment (pitambara) draped around his body, a crown of peacock feathers on his head, and a smile playing on his lips, it is in this manner that he is faithfully represented since the ancient times to the modern. Krishna was born in a prison cell in Mathura . Legend has it that Mathura was ruled by a king called Ugrasena. One day, Ugrasena and his wife were taking a walk in the gardens, where a demon saw the queen and fell in love with her. In this lust for her, he diverted the attention of Ugrasena, assumed his form himself and fulfilled his desire. The child born of this union was Kamsa. Kamsa grew up to dethrone his father and imprison his sister Devaki (daughter of Ugrasena) and her husband Vasudeva. Devki later became the mother of Krishna . It so happened that on the day Kamsa was driving his newly married sister and her husband Vasudeva to their new home, a voice from the heavens intercepted him. The voice conveyed to him that the eighth child of Devki would kill Kamsa. Consequently, he imprisoned the couple and started killing their children, year after year. Seven children were lost but the eighth one - the Lord escaped the hands of the butcher and lived on to slay Kamsa later. Lord Krishna was born at midnight on the 8th day of the dark half of the month of Bhadrapada (August-September) and was brought to Vrindavan by Vasudeva ( Krishna 's father) on the same night to save Him from Kamsa. He was brought up in Vrindavan by the cowherd family of Yashoda and Nanda Raja.

Radha is recognized as the loveliest of all the cowgirls. She was the wife of Ayana and the daughter of the cowherd Vrishabhanu and his wife, Kamalavati. Radha was a childhood friend and soulmate of Krishna and the two were inseparable as playmates and later as lovers. Theirs was a love hidden from society, given Radha's status of a married woman. They had their moments of love, passion and anger - just like any two lovers in love and yet their love could not stand the test of duty that Krishna had to face. He had to leave Vrindavan, and Radha, to ensure that the ideals of truth and justice were established but in the process had to let down the ideal

of personal love. He became a king, defeated innumerable enemies and even married a number of times. And yet it is said Radha kept waiting for him to come back to her. Her love for Krishna is considered so divine and so pure that Radha herself obtained the status of a deity, with her name being insperably linked to that of Krishna . Most of Krishna 's images are considered complete when Radha stands by his side. The word Radha means the greatest worshiper of Krishna . No other gopi in Vrindavana has such a significant name as Sri Radha. Of course, all the Braja gopis love and give pleasure to Krishna . However, compared to Radhika's ocean of love for Krishna , the other gopis are merely pools, ponds and rivers. As the ocean is the original source of all the water found in lakes and rivers, similarly the love found in the gopis, and in all the other devotees has its origin in Sri Radha alone. Since Radha's love is the greatest, she gives the greatest pleasure to Krishna. 'Krishna enchants the whole world, but Srimati Radhika enchants even Him. Therefore, Radha is the Supreme Goddess.' In Vrindavana, people are accustomed to chant Radha's name more

than Krishna 's name. Radha's love for Krishna is all consuming and compels her to ignore her family honor and disregard her husband. Radha serves as a symbol for all of the Gopi girls' love for Krishna . Their relationship develops on Krishna 's captivating charm and aura of passion as Radha falls into a state of desire for this God. Radha is the soul; Krishna is the God. Krishna is the shaktiman - possessor of energy - and Radha is His shakti - energy. She is the female counterpart of the Godhead. She is the personification of the highest love of God, and by her mercy the soul is connected with the service and love of Krishna . The relationship between Radha and Krishna is the example of the highest and purest love, an indissoluble union of the highest intermingling and completion; it is also a love expressed through music. Music underlines the illicit relationship; this love shadowed by secrecy, adultery and scorn, finds its outlet in Krishna 's charming and passionate musical talents. Radha is married or involved with someone else, and still cannot resist Krishna 's musical call. In being with Him she risks social censure, alienation and humiliation. Riddled with shame and inappropriateness, this is hardly a relationship that purportedly embodies the highest union of pure love. Music becomes the voice of their illicit love which is too passionate, and secretive. Krishna is the cosmic musician who woos the gopi's (cowherd girls) with his tunes. Krishna 's flute sounds so powerful that they embodied the energy of the cosmos. His beauty, charm and musical skill impassion women everywhere; at the sound of his flute playing, the gopis "jump up in the middle of putting on her makeup, abandon her family while eating a meal, leave food to burn on the stove, and run out of her home to be with Krishna ". In

the embrace of Krishna, the gopis, maddened with desire, found refuge; in their love dalliance with him who was the master in all the sixty-four arts of love, the gopis felt a thrill indescribable; and in making love with him in that climatic moment of release, in that one binding moment, they felt that joy and fulfillment which could not but be an aspect of the divine. Through their experience, thus, the erotic the carnal and the profane became but an aspect of the sublime, the spiritual and the divine. This cumulative myth sustained one basic point: for women, Krishna was a personal god, always accessible and unfailingly responsive. He was a god specially made for women. In the popular psyche, Krishna and Radha became the universal symbol for the lover and the beloved. Krishna was the ideal hero, and Radha the ideal heroine. This is the tie that binds Him and Radha; erotic musical passion overrides the social and female responsibilities Radha is tied to and she relinquishes herself to her adulterous, but passionate affair with Krishna . Krishna led a very pampered and amorous life in the Gokul, alongside thousands of gopicas, the cowherdresses who were all enthralled at His beauty and were thrilled whenever He played the flute. There are numerous playful instances of Krishna , playing mischief with the gopikas including breaking their butter pots. Krishna represents the private life of the Absolute. His relationship with Radha, His Divine consort, actually constitutes the private life of Krishna . In this relationship, Love reigns supreme as Krishna surrenders to Radha. Krishna is lovestruck while Radha has taken over control. He has surrendered to the Power of Love. Very few people really understand this relationship and the message it contains. The supreme object of devotion, Krishna , worships the highest devotion, Radha. The zenith of Radha and Krishna 's love affair is the Raas-Leela, the circular dance of love. The Raas-Leela points to the highest potential of the soul. It is within this context of the circular dance that the highest is couched in apparent selfishness. Radha Krishna is the original principle of loving relationships (conjugal Love). The sex principle exists in the Absolute in its pure form without any inebriety or impurity, because Krishna is in fact Radha. In other words, the Lord is one, but for His pleasure and enjoyment, He expands himself to enjoy loving relationships. The original expansion is Radha. Together, Radha and Krishna enjoy eternal pastimes of transcendental love. Real love exists between Radha and Krishna . Real love is transcendental and spiritual. We have to become attracted to spiritual love and give up false love and beauty, which are only skin-deep. There is nothing beautiful underneath the skin. Krishna consciousness means to be serious and determined to transcend the material attraction between man and woman in order to become attracted to the lotus feet of Radha and Krishna .

"The sum and substance of material life is attraction for woman. And the sum and substance of spiritual life is attraction for Radha-Krishna".

with regards

dilip

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