Why did Vrishabhanu allow Radharani to marry Abhimanyu?

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Why did Vrishabhanu allow Radharani to marry Abhimanyu?

 

by Victor D DiCara (Vraja Kishor das)

 

This question would be very difficult, if not impossible to answer if wedded

romance (svakiya) were more desirable to Krishna and the gopis than unwedded

romance (parakiya). This is not the case, however, because unwedded romantic

love completes the progression from shuddha-rati through dasya, sakhya,

vatsalya,

and madhurya - a progression of love intensifying and progressively becoming

stronger than formalities.

 

Vrishabhanu wants the very best for his daughter Radha, and for Krishna.

Therefore

deep down inside, below his conscious thoughts (for if it were conscious it may

 

be a cause of rasabhasa), in his subconscious mind Vrishabhanu, like every

other

resident of Vrindaban, wants Radha and Krishna to enjoy the best:

parakiya-rasa,

unwedded romantic love.

 

He therefore facilitates this by marrying Radha to Abhimanyu.

 

However, what is this "marriage?" In the pastimes unfolding in the spiritual

sky, there is no such marriage. Radha's relationship to Abhimanyu is a

conception

only. It is simply a concept accepted by everyone that Radha is married to

someone

named Abhimanyu, but no such marriage ever takes place, and no such man even

exists.

 

In the pastimes that manifest here in this world, such concepts take actual

form.

Thus in the lila that manifests here there is indeed a man named Abhimanyu, and

 

there is an actual marriage between him and Sri Radha. However, this marriage

occurs during the year in which all the cowherd boys were held captive by Lord

Brahma in a cave. How then could Radha have married Abhimanyu? Krishna expanded

 

himself to replicate all the cowherd boys, and the marriage between "Abhimanyu"

 

and Radha, as well as the marriages of all Krishna's gopis, took place during

this year.