The Greatness of Radha’s Love For kṛṣṇa!!!!!!!!!! Modern day sensual so called poets, writers and Bollywood have vulgarized kṛṣṇa and his Leelas to earn name and fame. Radha - kṛṣṇas love was TRANSCENDENTAL!!!! The more that we are willing to go through hell for kṛṣṇa, the more kṛṣṇa sees that we truly love Him and the more we become blessed with transcendental happiness. This is very nicely illustrated below by kṛṣṇas pastimes. It is said in the ‘Chaitanya Charitramrita’ and narrated by Gauranga,Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu that once kṛṣṇa was crying for a Gopi who was unable to come to kṛṣṇa as she had household chores. Radha was watching all this. Meanwhile she personally went to the Gopikas house and then fell on her feet and said,” My kṛṣṇa is crying for you. Please go and visit him once. If you do so,I would become your Dasi eternally.” Through her example, Radha showed the world the meaning of true love and to what extent one has to sacrifice to really learn to love. Radha is indeed the greatest lover of all times and I would say even greater than romeo-juliet or laila-majnu. Hundred and thousand times greater.That’s why she was so dear to kṛṣṇa. Who in this world would be able to sacrifice to the extent Radha did without a tinge of Jealousy? No one. But Radha and devotees like her can only realize the true meaning of love. ============================================= THE GREATNESS OF RADHARANI’S LOVE FOR KRISHNA CONTINUED… ============================================= Radharani’s love is indeed great in all respect in comparison to anyone else including the queens of Lord kṛṣṇa. Indeed the queens are the expansion of Lakshmi, wife of Shri Vishnu but the following story will prove Radha’s supremacy over Rukmini and the other queens. This story is from the book ‘The Glories and Pastimes of Shrimati Radharani’. ‘Once Narada Muni went to Dwaraka to meet with Shri kṛṣṇa. One time kṛṣṇa pretended that He had a headache kṛṣṇa told Narada, “Devarsi! Today I am suffering from a severe headache. Many physicians came to cure Him, but still His headache persisted. If I do not get the proper medicine before sunset my life will be at risk.” Devarsi became worried and asked kṛṣṇa, “My Lord! Please let me know what kind of medicine you need to be cured.” Finally kṛṣṇa said, No physician has been able to cure me. “I need the foot dust of my devotees. If I put this dust on my head, I will be cured.” Narada said, “There is no difficulty at all. You have unlimited devotees all over the unlimited universes.” Confident of the ease of the mission, Narada Muni went straight to Krishna’s Queen, Rukmini and informed her of Krishna’s request. Rukmini replied, “O Devarsi! It is a matter of great concern that our husband is suffering from severe headache. But how can I give the dust of my feet to put on the head of my husband? This is adharma. He is my Lord. I will suffer in hell if a particle of dust from my feet touches the head of my Lord.” Then Narada Muni went to all other queens but none of them would give the dust of their feet for the same reason. Then Narada Muni went to all other devotees including Shiva and Brahma but nobody gave their foot dust. Meanwhile the headache of kṛṣṇa intensified. After that Narada Muni went to Vrindavan and asked everyone but nobody gave their foot dust. At last he saw Radharani with her sakhis on the banks of Yamuna. He straightaway went to them and asked for their foot dust. Radha said, “Devarsi Narada! We are not great devotees of the Lord. Still if he has mercifully considered us as His devotees then immediately we are ready to give the dust of our feet.” Immediately Radharani collected the dust of her feet and gave it to Narada Muni. Thus encouraged by her sakhi, all the Gopis gave their foot dust too. Narada thought to himself that these simple cowherd girls do not know the reactions that they will suffer when their lord will smear their foot dust on his head. He asked the Gopis if they knew the consequence of giving their foot dust to the Lord. With one voice the Gopis replied, “Yes, we know. If by giving the foot dust we will have to suffer hell eternally, then we will happily make this special contract with Yamraja and go to Yamaloka. In exchange, we simply want to see that our most beloved, who is our life’s breathe is, become cured from his headache. His happiness is our life. We do not know any pleasure other than the pleasure of kṛṣṇa. What does it matter if we must go to hell?” Narada Muni with great ecstasy left for Dwaraka. When he reached there, kṛṣṇa smiled and said, “Narada! You have brought the foot dust of the Gopis . Now my disease is cured. Just see! You consider yourself a great devotee of mine. Why could you not give the dust of your feet at the beginning? However, this has taught you one thing: now you should know these Gopis of Vrindavan are my greatest devotees. They have given their life to me.” This is the mood of the gopis. It doesnt matter to the gopis if they have to go to hell or even the whole world has to go to hell. For them kṛṣṇas satisfaction is all that matters. This mood of service to kṛṣṇa is called uttama bhakti, the topmost level of spiritual perfection known as pure devotional service. Therefore even today on devotees lips lives Radha!!!!!!!!
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 02:19:22 +0000