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Religion: Hinduism – About – Celebration Of Love – God Shri. Krishna And Radha
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Hinduism Celebrates love every day- There should not be any specific special day to express your love …Perhaps no other culture or civilization glorifies the notion of love as Hinduism. This is evident from the amazing variety of love stories that abounds Sanskrit literature, which is undoubtedly one of the richest treasure hoards of exciting love tales.
The Radha-Krishna amour is a love legend of all times. It’s indeed hard to miss the many legends and paintings illustrating 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. The allegorical love of Radha has found expression in some great Bengali poetical works of Govinda Das, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, and Jayadeva the author of Geet Govinda.
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 Mahabharata, 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. Suradasa in his Radha-Krishna lyrics relates the various amorous delights of 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.
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I remembered this topic about love and in that love of the highest order. God Shri. Krishna loves all and is loved by all his beloved devotees. Here in this case love transcends all age groups, boundaries, barriers created by human and unconditional love with the willingness to give more and enjoy receiving more. This is a blissful state and a path which God Shri. Krishna showed to one and all who were his family, friends, relatives, people belonging to the same village, devotees, different lovers, love with animals, love with children, the aged, sages, enlightened men and the list goes on and on.
Some of the different forms of love expressed by God Shri. Krishna to various characters during different periods of time as His love has no time barriers are mentioned herewith. His love for mothers Devaki and Yashodha and His father in Dwaparayuga Vasudeva, love for gopis, love for Radharani, love for His sister and brother Subhadra and Balarama, love for Arjuna, love for His devotee to whose rescue he came Draupadi, love for Kunti mother of pandavas, love for His enemies like Sishupala who he killed after giving him many chances to reform himself, love for His friend Kuchela, love for subjects of His kingdom, love for His famous devotees both male and female saints like Meerabai, Soor Das and many others, love for His wives like Rukmini, Satyabhama, Jambavati and many others, love for mankind as a whole and many other forms of love.
It is not a love of just physical attraction but one of a eternal kind encompassing all kinds of relationships one has in the world. It will not take a long time to understand this love if understood with the right perspective and with a clean mind. His love for devotees is what draws millions and millions of devotees all over the world towards Him.
True love needs no definition and cosmic love needs to be just felt and reciprocated. Hope devotees chant the various names of God Shri. Krishna like Mukunda, Madhusana, Damodara, Kesava, Vallabha, Trivikrama, Neela Roopa, Govardhana Giridhari, Nandana, Mohana, Muralidhara, Murari, Ghanasyama, Gopala, Narayana Roope, Yashoda Nanan, Devaki Sutheye, Vasudeva Priye, Sriman Narayana Roope Namo Namaha and seek his love and blessing for attaining Moksha and coming out of the cycle of birth and death. Om Namo Bhagavathe Vasudevaya Namo Namaha. |
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