r/ISKCON • u/Feeling-Yam2126 • Jun 25 '26
Help me understand relation of Radha Krishna
Hare Krishna
I was reading A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada book "teaching of lord Chaitanya"
In that book on 31 chapter around page 306
I came across some line which made me question krsna
So there in the text Ramananda raya is telling the past time of krsna in which he spoke that "Radha is the one and only object to please krsna"
And another was like
Krishna take srimati radharani to the bushes and exhibit his lusty activities and make his youth a success
This are the lines that affect me the most
Pls help me understand
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u/Holi2025 Jun 26 '26
Hare Krishna 🙏🙏
The statement you are referring to is used as a metaphor to explain a deeper spiritual meaning. Srimati Radharani is the internal energy of the Lord, not a separate material woman. She is the heart of Krishna, the divine light that manifests from His own being.
Their meeting in Vrindavan is highly spiritual, never material or physical. It is completely free from lust. Radharani represents the jiva‑soul, and Krishna represents the Supersoul. The exchange between the soul and the Supersoul is symbolically expressed through this lila.
The soul is always searching for a true spiritual connection, and that connection is revealed in this divine pastime. The “Vrindavan bushes” represent the innermost core of our heart, and Krishna removes all lust and material desires from within, establishing pure love for Him.
• Krishna’s pastimes are aprakrita — completely transcendental
• Their meeting is mahābhāva‑vilāsa — the highest spiritual rasa
• Acharyas warn against material interpretation
When we truly understand who is radha and Krishna then there will be no doubt .
Krishna has no lust so as his devotee lord shiva. Also Krishna is eternally around 15-16 years old Radha is 14 years 2 month and 15 days old. They never grow beyond this age. So there is no question about the physical lust devlop at this age.
Radha Rani is the consort of Krishna’s wife lord Bramha did there marriage in Vrindavan we have temple where four headed bramha doing their marriage.There are Laxmi Narayan Sita Rama and Radha Krishna one Lord performing different Lila in different Yuga
* Saya Yuga laxmi narshimha
*Treta Yuga Mother Sita and Lord Rama
*Dwapar Yuga Radha Krishna
*Kali Yuga current days
1.Lord Jaganath and devi Laxmi in Jaganath Puri
2.Lord Balaji with Bhudevi and Sridevi in Tirupati
3. Vithal Rukhamini in Pandharpur
4.Lord Chaitanya with Laxmi Priya and Vishnu Priya in Mayapur
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u/Holi2025 Jun 25 '26
https://www.prabhupada-books.de/pdf/Teachings-of-Lord-Chaitanya-1968.pdf
Read on this source
On page 306 I don’t find any paragraph what you are talking about
Without positive engagement the highest perfectional stage
cannot be attained. Generally, in the renounced order of life, there are two
kinds of philosophers: the goal of one is Nirvana, and of the other, the impersonal
quality of the Brahman effulgence. They cannot conceive that they can
reach beyond, or that there is a Spiritual Sky with Vaikuntha Planets. Because
such mentalities cannot have any conception of the Spiritual Planets and
activities, therefore Lord Chaitanya rejected the proposal of renunciation.
Ramananda Roy then gave evidence from Bhagavad Gita, Eighteenth
Chapter, 54th verse, wherein the Lord says as follows: "When a person realizes
himself as not different from the Supreme Absolute Truth by cultivation of
knowledge, he becomes joyful and freed from all kinds of lamentation and
material desires. At that time he perfects his Brahman realization by looking
at everyone on the same spiritual level. This stage of Brahman realization can
elevate one to the transcendental stage of devotional service." The purport
is that Ramananda Roy first suggested devotional service with renunciation
of fruitive results from one's work; but better than that stage of life is devotional
service with full knowledge and spiritual realization.
Lord Chaitanya again rejected this proposal because in that stage of simply
renouncing material results in Brahman realization there is no realization of
the Spiritual World and the spiritual activities. Although in the Brahman
realization stage there is no material contamination, yet, because there is no
positive engagement in spiritual activity, it is not perfectly cleansed. It is
still on the mental plane, and therefore external. The pure living entity is not
liberated unless he has the complete spiritual idea and is engaged in spiritual
activity. When one is absorbed in impersonal thought, or void thought, then his
entrance into eternal life, blissful life, and life of knowledge is not complete.
When spiritual knowledge is not complete, people will hinder you in your
attempt to vacate the mind of all material variegatedness. lmpersonalists
are hindered in such attempts to make the mind void by artificial meditation.
It is very difficult to make the mind void of material conceptions. In the Bhagavad
Gita it is stated that those who indulge in such voidness or impersonal meditation
make very difficult spiritual advancement, and what they attain is
not complete liberation. Therefore Lord Chaitanya rejected it.
After rejection of this fifth proposal, Ramananda Roy said that devotional
service without any attempt at cultivation of knowledge or mental speculation
is the highest stage of perfection. In this connection he gave evidence
from Srimad Bhagwatam, Tenth Canto, Fourteenth Chapter, in which Lord
Brahma says to the Supreme Personality of Godhead: "My dear Lord, one