rukmani or radha

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Janaki

@RamKiSeeta

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Posted: 11 years ago

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Shri Radha and Mata Rukmini are the one and same. Radha was also an incarnation of Mahalakshmi, as was Rukmini. However, Radha did not get to marry Krishna because of a boon that Lord Vishnu had given to one of his devotees. That devotee had asked Vishnu that he get to marry Lakshmi in one of her incarnations, and since Vishnu grants the wishes of all his devotees, he had to grant that too. So Radha is believed to have married a man by the name of Aryan, but her heart always belonged to her Vishnu ie. Krishna.

Radha and Krishna were also cursed by one of their devotees, Shridhama, due to which they were separated for their whole life.

Rukmini is another incarnation of Mahalakshmi who was born to marry Krishna. In fact, in some sects it is believed that all the wives of Lord Krishna were different incarnations of Lakshmi, and that although Krishna is believed to have "many" wives, he was truly only married to Mahalakshmi 1000s of times in that incarnation.

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Cherry

@chirpy_life19

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Posted: 11 years ago

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Hey,long back I had the same question in my mind and searched everywhere and now I'm posting something I found interesting...it was extracted from the speech of Shri Shri Ravishankar.😊

Krishna- absolute joy, Radha means Longing.

Radha was already married to someone, but nobody even knows her husband's name ! When it is said that '' she was married'' - what is meant by this is that - before Krishna arrieved in her life, the longing was for something else.
People long for a car , for prestige, for fame- for so many things.However, when bliss - when god- comes into our lives , this longing becomes so intense.
It was the same with Radha ; she forgot everything! she left her husabnd , her house, and all other things- and she came to Krishna.

She became immersed in Krishna because that longing for the Divine, that longing for love ,was so total that even Krishna(the divine could not stay without her! )
Krishna says, '' Oh Radhe! i play the flute just for you- for you alone!''
Radha was nine years older than Krishna . Some people , some scriptures do not accept this . They said, '' what is this relationship between Radha & Krishna? it is very illegal!''
However, the symbolism behind this is very different , it is beautiful. Longing is older than love because longing gives birth to love.
It is longing that reaches love- and they always go together. There cannot be love wthout longing, and there cannot be longing without love.
How can you long for something that you have not loved- and how can you not feel longing , if you love something?

If you love something , you will naturally long for it !

So in '' Radhe Shyam'', Shyam is ''infinity'' and Radhe is '' longing''.
Radhe is the individual life; Shyam is the infinite life.
Infinity dawns in every cell of the body- and this is what we have been doing in meditation- i.e. , taking the mind to the vast , taking it '' throughout' , observing and seeing , becoming concious, becoming alive and more alive.

The entire creation is filled with life everywhere and this is RADHE SHAYAM.😊