Radha-Krishna, the Divine Couple (Part 3)

Since we are finite parts of the holo­graphic whole, God-dess lives within us. When we attune our­selves to the spir­i­tual plane, God-dess awak­ens within us, and we con­sciously engage in a lov­ing relationship–the per­fec­tion of spir­i­tual life.

Radha-Krishna also live in Braj, the spir­i­tual abode. Like them, it con­sists of exis­tence, con­scious­ness, and bliss. As such, it dif­fers from the mate­r­ial world. Braj and Radha-Krishna remain insep­a­ra­bly related. We can­not think of Radha-Krishna with­out Braj, nor Braj with­out Radha-Krishna. In their bliss­ful forms, they eter­nally stay in Braj and metaphor­i­cally never leave it.

Just as there are infi­nite man­i­fes­ta­tions of Radha-Krishna, there are infi­nite man­i­fes­ta­tions of their abode. For each man­i­fes­ta­tion of Radha-Krishna, there exists a cor­re­spond­ing man­i­fes­ta­tion of their abode. Braj is the orig­i­nal and high­est abode because it rep­re­sents an ulti­mate place to be, just as Radha-Krishna are the orig­i­nal and high­est forms of God-dess we can relate to. High­est means the most excel­lent, com­plete, or full man­i­fes­ta­tion we can comprehend.

Radha-Krishna and their abode are high­est because their sweet­ness eclipses their majesty. They do not appear as God-dess, or even sov­er­eigns, but as young lovers, eter­nally engaged in amorous sports with their beloved con­fi­dants and friends on the bank of the river, in the green groves laden with sweet smelling flow­ers, all of which breathe an enjoy­able atmos­phere of free­dom and sweetness.

All other forms of God-dess we know of and their abodes are par­tial man­i­fes­ta­tions of this sweet­est lush­ness. Devo­tees with per­fect spir­i­tual vision see Radha-Krishna’s sports all over the world, as well as in Braj, India, and in their own hearts. We enter the spir­i­tual Braj and Radha-Krishna’s pas­times only through nat­ural devo­tion, the way of the heart. Devo­tion through reg­u­la­tive prin­ci­ples leads to dif­fer­ent, more majes­tic, and less sweetly inno­cent forms of God-dess.

Braj is a place of pil­grim­age in Uttar Pradesh, India, but the spir­i­tual Braj exists in the hearts of devo­tees wher­ever they are. Radha-Krishna’s pas­times go on there now and for­ever. One can see them only by the grace and sweet will of Radha-Krishna or their beloveds.

Eter­nal friends enrich God-dess’ pas­times by par­tic­i­pat­ing in var­i­ous rela­tion­ships in these spir­i­tual real­i­ties. From our per­spec­tive, some of them engage in these sports with­out begin­ning because in the spir­i­tual world there is no begin­ning of time as we expe­ri­ence it here. To us, oth­ers attained their roles through grace and devo­tional prac­tice in the mate­r­ial world, but from the per­spec­tive of the spir­i­tual world, they have always been there as eter­nal par­tic­i­pants in Radha-Krishna’s pas­times. An eter­nity in this world is less than the blink of an eye there. We can describe it as “anti-time.” Thus, in a man­ner of speak­ing, we already live in the spir­i­tual world and are tem­porar­ily dream­ing this world. It is as real as we want it to be.

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