{"id":424,"date":"2021-07-08T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discoverursupersoul.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2021-07-08T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T09:30:00","slug":"why-do-we-worship-radha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minivetsystem.com\/iskcon\/why-do-we-worship-radha\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do we worship Radha? To get love of Krishna."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Why do we worship Radha if Rukmini is the legally wedded wife of Krishna<\/strong>? Is it not better or moral to worship Rukmini and Krishna than Radha and Krishna?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worshipping Rukmini is great, its wonderful, and we should do it. In fact, devotees do worship Rukmini Krishna<\/strong> and there are many temples which have the deity of Rukmini and Krishna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But still the great saintly personalities revere the relationship between Radha<\/span><\/a> and Krishna. The transcendental loving relationship between Radha and Krishna cannot be equalled<\/strong> in this world and not even in the spiritual world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is Radha and Krishna married?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Yes<\/strong>. Radha and Krishna are eternally married.<\/strong> \u00a0They are eternally one. Just like our parents are married before our birth, similarly Radha and Krishna are married since the dawn of creation. As our parents do not again marry to prove to us that they are married.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, our eternal parents – Radha and Krishna \u2013 do not have to marry again in this world <\/strong>to prove their marital status. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there is also a pastime which is quite famous in braj, Vrindavan, that Lord Brahma got Radha and Krishna married <\/strong>when they were performing their childhood pastimes in Vrindavan and Barsana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radha is the source of incarnation of goddesses of fortune<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Krishna is the source of incarnations of Vishnu and Narayan who reside in various Vaikuntha planets. Similarly, Radha is the source of expansion of Krishna\u2019s pleasure potency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is the source of all the gopis and also the source of goddess of fortune, Laksmidevi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wherever Krishna is, there is Radha. So, when Krishna is in Dwarka, Radha expands as Rukmini<\/strong>, the goddess of fortune, to serve Krishna and to give pleasure to Krishna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Srila Prabhupada writes<\/span><\/a>, \u201cAccording to expert opinion, Lak\u1e63m\u012b, the goddess of fortune, is a subordinate expansion of \u015ar\u012bmat\u012b R\u0101dh\u0101r\u0101\u1e47\u012b. As K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a has numerous expansions of\u00a0vi\u1e63\u1e47u-m\u016brtis,<\/em>\u00a0so His pleasure potency, R\u0101dh\u0101r\u0101\u1e47\u012b, also has innumerable expansions of goddesses of fortune<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radha is very dear to Krishna<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Krishna without Radharani is like sun without sunshine.  Krishna is the supreme enjoyer and Radharani is the source of that enjoyment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are millions of gopis in Goloka Vrindavan, the spiritual world. And all the gopis always serve Krishna and give joy to Krishna. \u00a0All the gopis are great devotees and they desperately desire to be with Krishna but Krishna longs to be with Radha.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And although the gopis want to be with Krishna but they get great pleasure when they see Radha and Krishna together.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Radharani, the best among all the gopis, wants to give Krishna to others. So, she happily allows the gopis to enjoy pastimes with Krishna<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, if Srimati Radharani is pleased with our devotion then she will allow us also to participate in the eternal blissful pastimes of Goloka Vrindavan.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She wants us to be always with her in the spiritual world. She does not want anyone of us to suffer. In fact, if we cry for her help then she will quickly free us from all sufferings.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radha saves a suffering soul in Vrindavan<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Once in Vrindavan, some kids were harassing a jackal,<\/strong> they were chasing him with sticks and throwing rocks at him. And the Jackal running for his life entered into a hole in the ground. When the boys saw Jackal inside the hole they set fire around the hole. The heat was intolerable and the Jackal started screaming and crying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Radharani was within the vicinity. When she heard the cry she asked Lalita Sakhi, her friend, to find out what was happening.  She said, \u201cThis is Vrajbhumi, my land, no one should be suffering here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lalita Sakhi immediately went and saw boys giving trouble to the Jackal, she chased the boys<\/strong> away. She took the Jackal out from that hole, he was trembling in fear. The Jackal was brought to Radharani<\/strong>. He fell at her feet and she blessed the Jackal. She gave the Jackal the body of a gopi.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this gopi became an associate of Radharani<\/strong> in the spiritual world. The Jackal\u2019s sincere cry for mercy attracted the mercy of Srimati Radharani.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is explained that the hole in which Jackal got confined represents the material existence.\u00a0 The Jackal represents us, the living entities. The fire around the hole is the misery of material existence.<\/strong> The loud cry of Jackal represents our utter helplessness in this material world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But like the Jackal if we cry for Radha\u2019s mercy then she will surely free us<\/strong> from all miseries. She will give us her shelter and an opportunity to be with her and serve her in the land of Vraja where Krishna is the King and she is the queen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why worship of Radha is important? <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To get freedom from material sufferings and to become dear to Krishna and attain love of Krishna, we should worship Radha. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura one of the most prominent Vaisnav acharyas underlines the importance of worshipping Radha in his book Gitavali. He writes, \u201cradha-bhajane jadi mati nahi bhela\/krsna-bhajana tava akarana gela – If your desire for the worship of Radha does not come about, then your so-called worship of Krsna is completely useless.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once when a person was worshiping Krishna at Radha Kunda and begging for Krishna\u2019s mercy then Bhaktisiddhnata Saraswati Thakura immediately remarked, \u201cWe are worshippers of the servant of the servant of Srimati Radharani.<\/strong> This is the mood of all the followers of Rupa Goswami.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We cannot attain Krishna without becoming a devotee of Radha. <\/strong>She is not like a demigod or demigoddess. She is greater than all the demigods of any material universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Krishna is the supreme father of all living entities of all the universes, Radha, Krishna\u2019s eternal consort, is the supreme mother of all the living entities of all the universes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pleasing mother is easier than pleasing father. Why? Because mothers are soft-hearted. Similarly, our eternal mother, Radharani\u2019s heart is soft like butter<\/strong>. She can be easily pleased.\u00a0 And we know that Krishna loves butter!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, if by our sincere devotion we attract Radharani\u2019s attention<\/strong>, we will eventually get Krishna\u2019s affection<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bhaktivinod Thakura further writes in Gitavali, \u201cIf one considers oneself to be a humble maidservant of Radhika<\/strong>, then such a person very quickly meets the Lord of Gokula.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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