" Radha Rani’s twenty-five chief transcendental
qualities are: (1) She is very sweet. (2) She is always freshly youthful. (3)
Her eyes are restless. (4) She smiles brightly. (5) She has beautiful,
auspicious lines. (6) She makes Kåñëa happy with Her bodily aroma. (7) She is
very expert in singing. (8) Her speech is charming. (9) She is very expert in
joking and speaking pleasantly. (10) She is very humble and meek. (11) She is
always full of mercy. (12) She is cunning. (13) She is expert in executing Her
duties. (14) She is shy. (15) She is always respectful. (16) She is always
calm. (17) She is always grave. (18) She is expert in enjoying life. (19) She
is situated at the topmost level of ecstatic love. (20) She is the reservoir of
loving affairs in Gokula. (21) She is the most famous of submissive devotees.
(22) She is very affectionate to elderly people. (23) She is very submissive to
the love of Her friends. (24) She is the chief gopé. (25) She always keeps
Kåñëa under Her control. In short, She possesses unlimited transcendental
qualities, just as Lord Kåñëa does.'
Krishna has
sixty-four transcendental qualities. Çrématé Rädhäräëé has twenty-five
transcendental qualities, but She can control even Kåñëa by them. Her
transcendental qualities are as follows: (1) She is sweetness personified; (2)
She is a fresh young girl; (3) Her eyes are always moving; (4) She is always
brightly smiling; (5) She possesses all auspicious marks on Her body; (6) She
can agitate Krishna by the flavor of Her person; (7) She is expert in the art
of singing; (8) She can speak very nicely and sweetly; (9) She is expert in
presenting feminine attractions; (10) She is modest and gentle; (11) She is
always very merciful; (12) She is transcendentally cunning; (13) She knows how
to dress nicely; (14) She is always shy; (15) She is always respectful; (16)
She is always patient; (17) She is very grave; (18) She is enjoyed by Krishna;
(19) She is always situated on the highest devotional platform; (20) She is the
abode of love of the residents of Gokula; (21) She can give shelter to all
kinds of devotees; (22) She is always affectionate to superiors and inferiors;
(23) She is always obliged by the dealings of Her associates, (24) She is the
greatest amongst Krishna's girl friends; (25) She always keeps Krishna under
Her control.
Radharani..., today is Radharani's appearance day. So we
should try to understand Radharani's feature. Radharani is the pleasure
potency, hladini-sakti. Anandamayo 'bhyasat (Vedanta-sutra 1.1.12). In the
Vedanta-sutra the Absolute Truth is described as anandamaya, always in pleasure
potency. That anandamaya potency... Just like ananda. When you want ananda,
pleasure, you cannot have it alone. Alone, you cannot enjoy. When you are in
the circles of friend or family or other associates, you feel pleasure. Just
like I am speaking. The speaking is very pleasing when there are many persons
here. I cannot speak alone here. That is not ananda. I can speak here at night,
dead of night, nobody here. That is not ananda. Ananda means there must be
others. So because Krsna, the Absolute Truth, is anandamaya, therefore eko bahu
syam, He has become many. We are also Krsna's part and parcel, to give pleasure
to Krsna. And the chief pleasure potency is Radharani.
radha-krsna-pranaya-vikrtir hladini-saktir asmad
ekatmanav api bhuvo (pura) deha-bhedo-gatau tau
caitanyakhyam prakatam adhuna tad-dvayam caikyam aptam
radha-bhava-(dyuti)-suvalitam naumi krsna-svarupam
[Cc. Adi 1.5]
So Krsna is Param Brahman, as you know from the
Bhagavad-gita. When Arjuna understood Bhagavad-gita, he affirmed Krsna, param
brahma param dhama pavitram paramam bhavan [Bg. 10.12]. So Krsna is Param
Brahman. So in this material world we see that a great, saintly person, simply
to enjoy brahmananda, he gives up everything of material enjoyment. He becomes
sannyasi. Aham brahmasmi. Just to understand that he is in Brahman realization.
So if one has to give up everything material for Brahman realization, do you
think that Param Brahman, the Supreme Brahman, can enjoy anything material? No.
Krsna's enjoyment is nothing material. This point should be understood. For
Brahman realization we are giving up everything material. And how Param Brahman
can enjoy anything material? This question has been very much nicely discussed by
Jiva Gosvami.
So when the Param Brahman... First of all, the Param Brahman
information is not there in this material world. Little Brahman information is
there. Or little Paramatma information is there. But not Param Brahman, or
Bhagavan, information. Therefore it is said, manusyanam sahasresu kascid yatati
siddhaye [Bg. 7.3]. Siddhaye means to understand Brahman or Paramatma. But out
of many such persons who have realized Brahman and Paramatma, hardly a person
can know Krsna. And that... First of all... [break] ...what we can understand
about Krsna's pleasure potency? If I want to know some big man. That is one
process. And without knowing that big man, how I can understand about his
internal affairs? Similarly, if we do not understand Krsna, how we can understand
how Krsna is enjoying? That is not possible. But the Gosvamis, they're giving
us information what is the pleasure potency of Krsna. That is Srimati
Radharani.
So we have described about the Radha-Krsna loving affairs in
our Teachings of Lord Caitanya in page 264. If you have got this book, you can
read it, how the reciprocation of loving affairs of Radha-Krsna is there,
transcendental. So our today prayer to Radharani... We pray to Radharani
because She is the pleasure potency of Krsna. Krsna means
"all-attractive." But Radharani is so great that She attracts Krsna.
Krsna is all-attractive, and She is attractive (attractor) of Krsna. So what is
the position of Srimati Radharani? We should try to understand this day and
offer our obeisances to Radharani. Radhe vrndavanesvari.
tapta-kancana-gaurangi radhe vrndavanesvari
vrsabhanu-sute devi pranamami hari-priye
Our business is "Radharani, You are so dear to Krsna.
So we offer our respectful obeisances unto You."
tapta-kancana-gaurangi radhe vrndavanesvari
vrsabhanu-sute devi pranamami hari-priye
[I offer my respects to Radharani, whose bodily complexion
is like molten gold and who is the Queen of Vrndavana. You are the daughter of
King Vrsabhanu, and You are very dear to Lord Krsna.]
Radharani is hari-priya, very dear to Krsna. So if we
approach Krsna through Radharani, through the mercy of Radharani, then it
becomes very easy. If Radharani recommends that "This devotee is very
nice," then Krsna immediately accepts, however fool I may be. Because it
is recommended by Radharani, Krsna accepts. Therefore in Vrndavana you'll find
all the devotees, they're chanting more Radharani's name than Krsna's. Wherever
you'll go, you'll find the devotees are addressing, "Jaya Radhe."
You'll find still in Vrndavana. They are glorifying Radharani. They're more
interested, worshiping Radharani. Because however fallen I may be, if some way
or other I can please Radharani, then it is very easy for me to understand
Krsna. Otherwise,
manusyanam sahasresu
kascid yatati siddhaye
yatatam api siddhanam
kascid vetti mam tattvatah
[Bg. 7.3]
If you go by the speculative process to understand Krsna, it
will take many, many lives. But if you take devotional service, just try to
please Radharani, and Krsna will be gotten very easily. Because Radharani can
deliver Krsna. She is so great devotee, the emblem of maha-bhagavata. Even
Krsna cannot understand what is Radharani's quality. Even Krsna, although He
says vedaham samatitani [Bg. 7.26], "I know everything," still, He
fails to understand Radharani. Radharani is so great. He says that... Actually,
Krsna knows everything. In order to understand Radharani, Krsna accepted the
position of Radharani. Krsna wanted to understand the potency of Radharani.
Krsna thought that "I am full. I am complete in every respect, but still,
I want to understand Radharani. Why?" This propensity made Krsna obliged
to accept the propensities of Radharani, to understand Krsna, Himself.
These are, of course, very transcendental, great science.
One who is advanced in Krsna consciousness and well conversant with the
sastras, they can understand. But still, we can discuss from the sastra. When
Krsna wanted to understand Himself, He took the tendency of Srimati Radharani.
And that is Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Radha-bhava-dyuti-suvalitam. Caitanya
Mahaprabhu is Krsna, but He has accepted the propensities of Radharani. As
Radharani is always in feelings of separation of Krsna, similarly, in the
position of Radharani, Lord Caitanya was feeling separation of Krsna. That is
the teachings of Lord Caitanya, feelings of separation, not meeting. The
process of devotional service taught by Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His disciplic
succession is how to feel separation from Krsna. That is Radharani's position,
always feeling the separation.
The Gosvamis, they also, when they were in Vrndavana, they
never said that "I have seen Krsna." Although they were the most
perfect, they never said that "I have seen Krsna." Their prayers were
like this: he radhe! vraja-devike! he nanda-suno! kutah. He radhe, Radharani,
he radhe! vraja-devike! ca. Radharani does not remain alone. He (She) remains
always with His (Her) friends, vraja-devi, Lalita or Visakha and other damsels
of Vrndavana. So the Gosvamins are praying, in their mature stage, when they
were living at Vrndavana, they were praying in this way, he radhe!
vraja-devike! ca lalite! he nanda-suno! kutah: "Where, Radharani, where
You are? Where are Your associates? Where You are, Nanda-suno, the son of Nanda
Maharaja, Krsna? Where you are, all?" They were searching after. They
never said, "I have seen Krsna dancing with the gopis. Last night I
saw." (laughter) This is sahajiya. This is not mature devotee. This is
called... They are called sahajiya. They take everything very cheap -- Krsna very
cheap, Radharani very cheap -- as if they can see every night. No. The Gosvamis
do not teach us like that. They're searching after. He radhe! vraja-devike! ca
lalite! he nanda-suno! kutah, sri-govardhana-padapa-tale kalindi-vanye kutah:
"Are you there under the Govardhana Hill or on the banks of the
Yamuna?" Kalindi-vanye kutah. Ghosantav iti sarvato vraja-pure khedair
maha-vihvalau. Their business was crying like this, "Where You are? Where
You are, Radharani? Where you are, Lalita, Visakha, the associates of Radharani?
Where You are, Krsna? Are You near Govardhana Hill or on the bank of the
Yamuna?" Ghosantav iti sarvato vraja-pure. So throughout the whole tract
of Vrndavana they were crying and searching after Them, khedair maha-vihvalau,
as if madman. Khedair maha-vihvalau. Vande rupa-sanatanau raghu-yugau
sri-jiva-gopalakau.
So we have to follow the footprints of the Gosvamis, how to
search out Krsna and Radharani, Vrndavana, or within your heart. That is the
process of Caitanya Mahaprabhu's bhajana: feeling of separation, vipralambha,
vipralambha-seva. Just like Caitanya Mahaprabhu, feeling the separation of
Krsna, He was falling down on the sea. He was coming out of His rest room or
His bedroom and going out at dead of night. Nobody knew where He has gone. So that
was His searching. This process of devotional service is taught by Caitanya
Mahaprabhu. Not that very easily, "We have seen Krsna or seen Radharani in
rasa-lila." No, not like that. Feel the separation. The more you feel
separation from Krsna, you should understand that you are advancing. Don't try
to see Krsna artificially. Be advanced in separation feeling, and then it will
be perfect. That is the teachings of Lord Caitanya. Because with our material
eyes we cannot see Krsna. Atah sri-krsna-namadi na bhaved grahyam indriyaih
[Cc. Madhya 17.136]. With our material senses we cannot see Krsna, we cannot
hear about Krsna's name. But sevonmukhe hi jihvadau. When you engage yourself
in the service of the Lord... Where the service begins? Jihvadau. The service
begins from the tongue. Not from the legs, eyes, or ears. It begins from the
tongue. Sevonmukhe hi jihvadau. If you begin service through your tongue...
How? Chant Hare Krsna. Use your tongue. Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna,
Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. And take Krsna prasadam.
The tongue has got two business: to articulate sound, Hare Krsna; and take
prasadam. By this process you'll realize Krsna.
Devotee: Haribol!
Prabhupada: Don't try to see Krsna. You cannot see Krsna
with your material eyes. Neither you can hear about Him with your material
ears. Neither you can touch. But if you engage your tongue in the service of
the Lord, then He'll reveal Himself to you: "Here I am." That is
wanted. So feel separation of Krsna just like Radharani, as Lord Caitanya
teaches us, and engage your tongue in the service of the Lord; then, one day,
when you are mature, you'll see Krsna eye to eye.
Thank you very much.
Devotees: Haribol! All glories to His Divine Grace! (offer
obeisances) (end)
Radhastami,
Srimati Radharani's Appearance Day
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