Why Radha-Krishna is Special though Krishna had 16108 wives?
A Girl devotee (Name hidden) asked like this:
“Sir, the Love of Radha and Krishna is always fascinating for me. Though Krishna married 1000s of girls and did lilas with hundreds of gopi girls, why Radha-Krishna love is specially mentioned everywhere? I m just curious to know this.”
REPLY:
Primary reasons for the Speciality of Radha-Krishna Love are:
(i) Gopis-Krishna love is between Jivatmas and Paramathma. Whereas, Radharani is Krishna’s energy, ie, Krishna’s Part. So, nothing can equal the love of Radharani with Krishna.
(ii) Radharani & Krishna are One and the same.
(iii) The Love exists eternally in Krishna’s kingdom Goloka; She was reunited with Krishna on earth.
(iv) Radharani is considered as the complete incarnation of Mahalakshmi. It is believed that Krishna enchants the world, but Radha enchants even him.
Let us see some TOUCHING & POPULAR instances to establish how Radha-Krishna Love is absolutely pure and matchless.
(FIRST MEETING OF KRISHNA AND RADHARANI – A BLISSFUL LILA! READ HERE!)
Radha-Krishna Love is the story of love amongst these two players. Lord Krishna is depicted as the god of love, and he chose his love prey with great attention and won their hearts over.
The tales of Radha Krishna are so very common and appealing that they surpass all other tales. There are several tales and stories that have been carried on down several generations that enable us to decipher the true and unyielding love that was shared by both of them, Radha Krishna.
The kind of love and dedication that Radharani showcased for Krishna are fantastic and hard to find in any other love pair.
There are several legends that tell us of Radha-Krishna Love and how it was entrenched deeply in both their beings.
(Is it true that Radharani is Krishna’s maternal aunt? READ HERE!)
TALE-1:
This is one tale that tells us of the infinite and binding love that were shared by Radha Krishna. Radha was not Lord Krishna’s wife and her eternal love for him made all of his wives envious of her, and they wanted to do away with her somehow.
So, what they did one day was to play a prank on Radha in order to make her suffer and also to test how far she would go for her beloved.
Hence, they gave her a piping hot bowl of milk and asked her to drink the scalding milk saying that it was Krishna, who wanted it to be so.
Surprisingly, Radharani picked it up and drank it up, the hot milk and all.
When the wives took back the bowl they saw that it was lord Krishna who had burned his tongue and was the one who had suffered.
This proved the eternal bond that Radha Krishna shared with one another. He took upon himself her pain and suffering just like a true lover.
TALE-2:
This tale further reinforces the love that Radha Krishna shared amongst them. Once when the lord Krishna became very sick the physician said that the only cure was the Charanaamrit from a true worshiper of him.
All the gopis who had gathered that were asked one by one, but none of them were willing to do so. They were actually concerned about giving the water in which they usually washed their feet to the lord.
(Why Radharani is not mentioned in Bhagavatham & All the Bonafide Scriptures? READ HERE!)
When it was Radharani’s turn, she did not hesitate even for a second. She said that you can go ahead and take as much as you want as I am not really bothered of getting to hell as long as my lord gets alright. His pain is more painful than the pain that I can ever experience of going to hell.
Thus, Radharani gave Lord Krishna the Charanaamrit and this was going to be her undoing ultimately, as it is said that she couldn’t eventually, marry her lord because of this.
Charanaamrit was the thing that made Krishna well again. But, at the same time it stopped Radha Krishna from marrying too.
Krishna’s youthful alliances with the ‘gopis’ are interpreted as symbolic of the loving exchange between God and the human soul.
Radharani’s divine 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.
Radharani, daughter of Vrishabhanu, was Krishna’s most intimate lover during that period 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 circumstances 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 Ayodhya, 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 incomplete without the deification of Radha.
That is why Radha-Krishna Love is Special among all the lilas of Krishna.
(Why Krishna did not marry Radharani? Complete Details! READ HERE!)