28 Mar 2023
[Smt. lakshmi lavanya K asked: You said Radha met Krishna rarely, secretly and didn't have children for the prestige of Krishna, But You also said that God incarnates on earth only to bless His devotees with bhagya chathushtayam. Shall we also hide our emotions on You for the sake of Your prestige?]
Swami replied:- You shall not view Raadhaa as a personality of emotions only. Her emotions were always controlled by her spiritual knowledge. Radha is the incarnation of God Shiva, who is misunderstood as emotional without much wisdom of analysis. For example, it is said that God Shiva became emotional and killed Yama, the deity of death in the case of His best devotee called Maarkandeya. It is thought that He killed Yama due to His natural hasty emotion and then realized His mistake by giving life back to Yama. God Shiva gave an explanation to Yama by raising a valid point, which was that He gave life to the husband of Savitri since she praised him and violated his duty. But, in the case of Maarkandeya, a devotee of God Shiva, he is strict in his duty! Nobody in the creation thought about this point except the most wisest God Shiva.
Emotion shall be generated by knowledge and not by ignorance. Knowledge is the first step, emotion or devotion is the second step while practice is the final third step. Knowledge is the cause and emotion is the product. If the lump of gold is one kg., the jewel prepared from it also weighs one kg. One must complete the first stage of knowledge and then only go into the third stage of valuable practice through the second stage of emotion or devotion. If the first stage is ignorance-iron, you will get one kg. iron jewel only as the product by which your practical value becomes zero. Emotional love is the common basic material in all types of divine bonds just like gold is the common material in all types of jewels. The weight comes from gold and not from the design of jewel. Gold is not confined to one form of jewel only and one form of jewel does not mean that the material in it is always gold. There can be golden chain and golden ring. Similarly, there can be copper chain and copper ring. The value of the jewel depends on the weight of gold and not on the design of jewel. If the metal is copper, whether it is chain or ring, it is cheap only.
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