Radha-Krishna, the Divine Couple (Part 2)

From our human point of view, Radha-Krishna, in their intrin­sic form, pos­sess infi­nite poten­cies, infi­nite attrib­utes, and all divine excel­lences. They con­sti­tute the ulti­mate source of every­thing, the prime cause of all causes. They pos­sess spir­i­tual bod­ies, which are beau­ti­ful beyond words. They man­i­fest in many places simul­ta­ne­ously, and no qual­i­ta­tive dif­fer­ence exists between these forms and the orig­i­nal form.

They man­i­fest in dif­fer­ent forms with count­less con­ceits to expe­ri­ence unlim­ited pas­times. These expan­sions of God-dess live in their own spir­i­tual abodes where they engage in eter­nal pas­times with their devo­tees. The dif­fer­ent reli­gions are based on expe­ri­ences of var­i­ous forms God-dess revealed accord­ing to time and cir­cum­stance. This accounts for the dif­fer­ent descrip­tions of God-dess who man­i­fests in the mate­r­ial world to cre­ate and main­tain the cos­mos and impart spir­i­tual wis­dom. They are not sub­ject to mate­r­ial energy. They oper­ate in the realms of con­scious­ness and some­times man­i­fest on the mate­r­ial plane through highly evolved humans such as Jesus and Chaitanya.

These arche­typal forms live in the Cos­mic Con­scious­ness and appear in our con­scious­ness to com­mu­ni­cate with us. Since we are also parts of Cos­mic Con­scious­ness, some­times they pos­sess a per­son and appear in human form through that per­son. His devo­tees con­sider Chai­tanya the incar­na­tion of Radha-Krishna who appeared in the guise of a devo­tee to teach the reli­gion of divine love. Some­times he expe­ri­enced the mood of a human devo­tee. At other times, he was com­pletely pos­sessed by God-dess. He man­i­fested the moods of Radha-Krishna as well as other divine man­i­fes­ta­tions. He was seen and acknowl­edged as God-dess by learned devo­tees and schol­ars in his own life­time, and this belief con­tin­ues today among many of his devoted fol­low­ers all over the world.

The innu­mer­able man­i­fes­ta­tions of God-dess are all per­fect, but they man­i­fest dif­fer­ent degrees of per­fec­tion based on how many divine qual­i­ties they man­i­fest fully or par­tially and how many we can per­ceive and relate to. Radha-Krishna remain the source of all man­i­fes­ta­tions and all divine qual­i­ties fully man­i­fest in them.

Radha-Krishna con­sti­tute the supreme real­ity. They are both con­crete and expan­sive. Their infi­nite nature encir­cles the whole uni­verse, but that infini­tude is cen­tered in con­crete form. Their being con­sists of an all-embracing, organic unity. Their con­crete form does not limit or restrict their free­dom because the mod­u­la­tions of their being per­vade the infi­nite expanse of exis­tence. They com­bine breadth of spirit, intense mod­u­la­tions, eter­nal peace, and calm per­fec­tion with dynamic, eter­nally self-revealing, self-fulfilling cre­ative activ­ity, and quick­ness of move­ment with intense har­mony and grace. Radha-Krishna awaken these mod­u­la­tions in us, sat­is­fy­ing our long­ings for love, knowl­edge, and peace in an inte­gra­tive syn­the­sis. They awaken free­dom, flex­i­bil­ity, har­mony, and every­thing needed for a rich, full spir­i­tual life.

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