Radha was Adishakti- how is that possible?

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someone just told me that radha was an incarnation of adishakti- is that true?

and how is that possible? adishakti is shiv's consort so then how can she incarnate and love an incarnation of vishnu?

thanks and a fast reply would be greatly appreciated!

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Janaki

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Posted: 13 years ago

Adishakti is not just Shiva's consort. This is a fact mentioned in Devi Puranam which many people don't know.

Adi Shakti is the ultimate Goddess, or Tripura Sundari as she is referred to. Lakshmi, Parvathi, and Saraswati all make up Adi Shakti, so basically Adi Shakti is married to Brahma, Vishnu, and Mahadev through her three different forms.

In Ramayana Devi Sita is a referred to as a part of Adi Shakti, and same also in Krishna's avatar, Devi Radha is referred to as Adi Shakti. In the Mahabharata, Draupadi is also referred to as Adi Shakti.

Adi Shakti's incarnations are numerous. She is married to Lord Vishnu as Lakshmi, Lord Shiva as Sati and Parvathi, and Lord Brahma as Saraswati, but they all are the same and equal in power and importance.

Edited by JanakiRaghunath - 13 years ago

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vaishnavi

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Posted: 13 years ago

Originally posted by: JanakiRaghunath
Adishakti is not just Shiva's consort. This is a fact mentioned in Devi Puranam which many people don't know.

Adi Shakti is the ultimate Goddess, or Tripura Sundari as she is referred to. Lakshmi, Parvathi, and Saraswati all make up Adi Shakti, so basically Adi Shakti is married to Brahma, Vishnu, and Mahadev through her three different forms.

In Ramayana Devi Sita is a referred to as a part of Adi Shakti, and same also in Krishna's avatar, Devi Radha is referred to as Adi Shakti. In the Mahabharata, Draupadi is also referred to as Adi Shakti.

Adi Shakti's incarnations are numerous. She is married to Lord Vishnu as Lakshmi, Lord Shiva as Sati and Parvathi, and Lord Brahma as Saraswati, but they all are the same and equal in power and importance.

Thanks Janaki!! This is the concept that the CVs keep confusing..Aadi Shakti is a complete concept from Devi mahatmyam and Devi puraanam like you said..where Aadi shakti or Aadi parashakti is considered to be the creator of the universe..thanks for the elaboration 😊

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soumya vohra

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Posted: 13 years ago

Wow dat ws a gr8 piece of information Janaki...

Thnx 4 sharing...

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harianjana

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Posted: 13 years ago

what janaki did said was completely right, Tri devi are three parts of Adishakthi's enormouse power. actually according to some puran it was said that In the start of universe, Adishakthi was the prime one after whom Shiva was born. After shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma was born and Adishakthi had the trishul and third eye at first which she gave to shiva. Shiva getting what Adishakthi wishes did fire her with help of third eye and divided that ash into 3 parts and thos three parts were later reborn as Lakshmi,devi and saraswathi this is what one purana says. there are many concepts like this.

But coming to Radha rani,she was not Adishakthhi. She was considered as the incarcination of lakshmi in Krishna tathv. But here arises another doubt as it was said that Rukminidevi was also the incarcination of lakshmi Devi, but actually it had a explanation that, Every person has his life partner in two forms... One is the Premasaathi(Love) and other is the Karmasaathi(Responsiblity) . Generally these both are referred to his wife only, but in the Krishnavatar Narayan gave a good difference for these two , in Krishnavatar Radha was the premsaathi of Krishna , where as Rukmini was the Karmasaathi. So it was often rumoured that The lakshmi's Premsaathi roop incarcinated as Radha while the karma sathi roop incarcinated as Rukmini. If we go on saying there are many theories like this... But what ever was theory there was no where said that radha was Adishakthi's incarcinatuion, she was always consdiered as lakshmi's incarcination only

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Posted: 13 years ago

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After creating 18 puranas Ved Vyas wanted to know more about Bhagavati's highest element. he did penanace at Himalaya, pleased with his hard penance Bhagavati told him to go to Brhmaloka,where all the Shruti's are present, you will know my secret there. Vyas went to Brhmaloka, greeted all 4 Vedas, asked them about the highest element of Bhagavati. All the Shruti's prayed to Goddess as a result Goddess Jagadamba appeared, who was shining as 1000 Suns, was as cool as 1000 Moons in her hands holding many weapons, wearing divine jewellery, was sitting on a Lion. She took different forms. Sometimes in Vishnu form with Lakshmi, sometimes Radha with Krishna, sometimes Brhma ith Savitri, sometimes Gauri with Shiv, like that she showed her many forms & cleared Vyas's doubts. This Jagadamba is Aadya Shakti or Aadi Shakti.

Lord Shiva did penace to get Goddess Jagadamba as his wife. She tested him inher ferrocious form, but Shiva was unaffected. Pleased with this she told him she will be born as Daksh's daughter as Purna-Prakruti & will marry him. When Daksh will disrespect you & me then I'll leave & go back to my dhaam. Then we will be seperated, even you won't be able to live at one place without me., that's how our love will be forever.

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Deva

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Posted: 13 years ago

Originally posted by: JanakiRaghunath
Adishakti is not just Shiva's consort. This is a fact mentioned in Devi Puranam which many people don't know.

Adi Shakti is the ultimate Goddess, or Tripura Sundari as she is referred to. Lakshmi, Parvathi, and Saraswati all make up Adi Shakti, so basically Adi Shakti is married to Brahma, Vishnu, and Mahadev through her three different forms.

In Ramayana Devi Sita is a referred to as a part of Adi Shakti, and same also in Krishna's avatar, Devi Radha is referred to as Adi Shakti. In the Mahabharata, Draupadi is also referred to as Adi Shakti.

Adi Shakti's incarnations are numerous. She is married to Lord Vishnu as Lakshmi, Lord Shiva as Sati and Parvathi, and Lord Brahma as Saraswati, but they all are the same and equal in power and importance.

i disagree...shiva is the supreme god...or you can say..the power...which got parted into three forms brahma, vishnu and shankara...

shiva was nirakar...and so was his power.shakthi..adi shakthi...lakshmi, saraswathi and parvathi are just fractional powers of shakthi...

coming to radha...she was not adishakthi...she was just a fictional character..created...infact...radha character never existed...

the same applies to draupathi too...she was a human who did penace for a husband with five qualities in her previuos birth...so she got married to pandavas...she was human..not a form of goddess...

the concept of devi...is vast ...no one knows clearly what actually the story is...each puran gave its own versions...

only truth is ...god is god...he/she answers us if we pray him/her with full faith...rest of all doesnot matter

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Sweet24

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Posted: 13 years ago

This is very difficult to understand as its very confusing also. Every form of God/Goddess has there own specialty and its limitation also.

We all know the Trinity i.e. Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh. Brahma is the creator, he can invent all creations,but he has his limitation that he cannot invent weapons and hold them also, he has to depend on others for that. So he goes to Vishnu and Shiv for help of him also.

Vishnu on the other hand is a maintainer or preserver. He can use weapons as necessity for preservation and maintenance. But he can't invent anything.

Mahesh is destroyer or transformer. All the three gods can't interfere in other's work.

Like Gods, goddess have 3 forms:-

One Goddess is for granting knowledge that work is given to Goddess Saraswati. Knowledge is necessary any creation. So she sits in Brahmalok. We learn knowledge in our early life.

Other Goddess is for granting prosperity, wisdom that work is given to Goddess Lakshmi. She sits with Vishnuji as it necessary in middle of the life and necessity for life span, that work what our parents do.

Then we have goddess of power i.e ulitimate Aadi Shakti. As we see Shakti word comes in the name of her. As for the destruction Shakti is needed, so she sits with Shiv. She is inventor of all weapons. So whenever we see any goddess that holding weapons that is a form of Aadya Shakti. She also grants peace and happiness. she also grants sanity. As the ultimate truth is dead. So people do lots of pooja in last age and want to attend this.

At last ,Like Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh are one i.e Aadi purush. 3 form to distinguish the work. Same thing is for goddess .

Now, when we talk of Radha, she is consort of Krishna. They live in their Go-lok. As I told that all the three are same Krishna is a full form of God, He is innocent as Shiv, perform work like Vishnu as he came as a preserver, So he is 8 avatar of Vishnu. When you read Geeta u will came to know.

his viraat-roop shows who he is, i.e everything. So both came from Go-lok. Rukmini is an avtar of Lakshmiji. So Krishna is same as Shiv and Radha is same as parvati, Krishna is the inventor of Kathak, that he invent that dancing on Kaliyaa Naag.

I think I have cleared ur doubt.

Edited by Sweet24 - 13 years ago

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harianant

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Posted: 13 years ago

Sri Radhey Rani in the form of Lord Shiva :)

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Janaki

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Posted: 13 years ago

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Originally posted by: jwalamukhi

i disagree...shiva is the supreme god...or you can say..the power...which got parted into three forms brahma, vishnu and shankara...

shiva was nirakar...and so was his power.shakthi..adi shakthi...lakshmi, saraswathi and parvathi are just fractional powers of shakthi...

coming to radha...she was not adishakthi...she was just a fictional character..created...infact...radha character never existed...

the same applies to draupathi too...she was a human who did penace for a husband with five qualities in her previuos birth...so she got married to pandavas...she was human..not a form of goddess...

the concept of devi...is vast ...no one knows clearly what actually the story is...each puran gave its own versions...

only truth is ...god is god...he/she answers us if we pray him/her with full faith...rest of all doesnot matter

Different scriptures say different things. One can agree or disagree depending on what version they believe in, but they cannot claim other versions are wrong because we ourselves will never actually know. Who are we to know and understand God?😊 I believe what I believe and you believe what you believe.

I respect your opinion but disagree with one thing. Radha was not a fictional character. She was as real as Rukmini and you can read the Brahma Vaivarta Purana to know about her.

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