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00:00Pranam Acharya Ji, I am from Final year Chemical Engineering.
00:07My question is that what is the bond between Goddess Radha and God Krishna?
00:14Like from holy books we have seen that they are the symbol of devotion but nowadays whatever
00:22we see, watch on television and on wedding invitation cards that they are the symbol
00:27of love.
00:28You know, behind every divine existence there is certain message which needs to deliver
00:35to the humanity.
00:36So I am not getting what kind of bond does it represent?
00:42See, very ideally, very truly, the relationship between Shri Krishna and Radha has to be much
00:58the same as between Shiva and Shakti.
01:03That has to be the ideal relationship.
01:08Unfortunately, in popular culture that relationship has been totally distorted.
01:14totally distorted.
01:15The way they are depicted these days is something that should not be acceptable at all.
01:26they have been presented as symbols of the usual carnal love between a man and a woman.
01:36All road Romeos love to call their sweethearts as Radha, which is quite unfortunate.
01:47When I talk about the shallowness of the usual kind of love, the man-woman kind, even teenagers come up and say, but if Shri Krishna could love Radha, why can't I?
02:04You see, we could not take a lot of liberty with Shakti because Shakti has been very properly documented in the scriptures.
02:24There is an entire stream, the Shakti that has its own scriptures, adherents, even its own Upanishads.
02:40So because that scriptural base is present, the scriptural rigidity and the discipline is there.
02:51So common imagination could not take much liberty with Shakti.
02:56So Shakti therefore, fortunately, retains her dignity.
03:02But when it comes to Radha, you must know that there is not much scriptural base there.
03:09The character of Radha is not present in any of the Upanishads, obviously not in the Vedas.
03:18Because it is not sufficiently present even in the Puranas.
03:23With respect to the character of Shri Krishna, there are two Puranas mainly.
03:33You know of Puranic literature, Puran you know.
03:36There is the Srimad Bhagwat Puran and there is the Hariwansha Puran.
03:40In these two, these two are in fact dedicated to Shri Krishna.
03:46Even in these two, Radha is scarcely mentioned.
03:51So what happens?
03:53The scriptures are not talking of Radha at all.
03:56Even if they talk of Radha, it is somewhere in passing.
03:59What has that meant?
04:02That has meant that later on all kinds of people could simply expand their imagination and say
04:10whatever they wanted about Radha.
04:12Now they cannot do this kind of a wild thing with Shakti or Parvati or Devi.
04:20Right?
04:21Because you have Upanishads present there.
04:23You have the Durga Sapshati there.
04:25You have other Agamas of the Shakti Marg.
04:28So you cannot do this thing with Devi.
04:31But with Radha, all these people have simply imagined, built up, inflated and distorted her character.
04:43All kinds of just imaginative stories have come up and because people don't read the scriptures, they believe in those stories.
04:53So Radha deserves a lot of dignity.
04:58The character of Radha Devi deserves a lot of respect.
05:02Unfortunately, you see what happens when people are, and from religious podiums and religious gatherings,
05:12when they are talking of Krishna and Radha, the way the two of them are depicted and narrated,
05:21and the way their relationship is painted, is not dignified.
05:30It is also spiritually not edifying.
05:33The way those dances and depictions happen, there is hardly any spiritual lesson in that.
05:41which is not right.
05:45As I said right in the beginning of my response,
05:49ideally, the Krishna-Radha relationship should be depicted in the same way as the Shiva-Shakti relationship.
05:57Nothing short of that. Nothing lower than that.
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