Is Radha-Krishna worship an open secret?

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REPLY: Namaste! Thanks for those quotes (slim pickings). It seems

except for

Mahabharat, Radha is not mentioned by name? (You have written " She " ).

It seems Radharani is the highest secret and somehow not mentioned by

Vyasa. It's almost like a Vedic " cover-up. " So my question is if She

is a secret in Shastra, then why is She being openly promoted by

certain groups? Any Vedantist could defeat a Radha-Krishna bhakta based

on the tiny referrence and little importance given in Shastra.

 

It seems that only the contemporary writers (after 10th century) have

exposed and openly promoted Radha Krishna worship. Some of their books,

like Govinda-Lilamrita by Kaviraj Goswami, written only 300 years ago,

describe the Asta-Kaliya-Nitya-Lila - which details (only from

realization of author) the activities of Radha and Krishna in

Golok-Vraja-Dham as divided into 8 parts of each day of the Nitya Lila

within Paravyoma. But this is recent, not shastric.

 

I once directly asked AC Bhativedanta Prabhupada about this and he said

Asta Kaliya

Lila was the REAL " nitya-lila " detail. He also allowed me to add

" asta-kaliya-lila " in sloka 10 off his translation of Upadeshamrita

(Nectar of Instruction) which I did with HDG in late 1973.

 

THere MUST be some reason why Radha-Krishna are not more supported by

Shastra, specially, Gita, SB, and Brahma Sutras, and Upanishads. It can

only point to a possibler secret conspiracy, where Vyasa didn't reveal

Radharani. It is " fables " more than Shastra.

 

So why is it being pushed onto the masses? That is my question. If it

is a secret then why promote? Do they think that Vyasa " forgot? "

 

Radha Krishna Prema is (said to be) the rarest possible attainment by a

jivatma in

this samsar. Even Krishna, in BG, advises us against openly giving BG

knowledge to unqualified people (what to speak of the masses). So what

is going on is a mystery to me??

 

Best wishes,

Richard

 

>

> Dear Sh. Richard ji,

>

> I agree with everything you said.

> We don't have any direct reference to Smt. Radharani is SB but it is

> there (as per the link) in different puranas. It is also not clear to

> me too why Smt. Radharani is not mentioned in SB which was wrote in

> last by Sage Ved Vyasa.

>

> Excerpt from the link:

> - appearance: Puranas give different versions about Her birth,

> according to different kalpas.

>

> 1. She was born in Gokula as a daughter of Vrsabhanu and Kalavati.

> (Brahmavaivarta

> Purana 2.49.35-42, Narada Purana 2.81, Raghunatha dasa Gosvami's

> Vraja-vilasa-stava)

>

> 2. When King Vrsabhanu was preparing the ground to conduct a yajna,

> he found

> Her in the earth, as Bhumi-kanya ( " earth-girl " , similarly to

> Sitadevi who was

> found in the wooden box buried in the earth, similar to black

> Madonnas). (Padma

> Purana, Brahma Purana 7)

>

> 3. She was born from the left side of Krsna. (Brahmavaivarta

> Purana)

>

> 4. At Krsna's birth Visnu asked His attendants to be born on earth.

> Radha took

> Her birth in Gokula under the star Jyestha in the morning of

> Suklastami day

> in Bhadrapada month. (Mahabharata Adi Parva 11)

>

> In another kalpa she is found in Yamuna river on a golden lotus by

> Maharaja

> Vrsabhanu.

 

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