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the all-auspicious appearance day of Krsna's dearest devotee,

Srimati Radharani.

 

Please meditate on Her divine qualities printed below.

 

Radha means one who worships Krsna the best

By chanting the name of Radharani it feels one of offenses and drawns

Krsna's

attention.

Indeed we need the mercy of Radharani to get the mercy of Krsna. Don't

forget

the mercy is there for everyone of us! Take advantage and pray to and serve

Srimati Radharani and Krsna with all of your hearts.

 

 

Srimati Radharani has twenty-five transcendental qualities, but She can

control even Krsna by them. Her transcendental qualities are as follows:

(1) She is sweetness personified;

(2) She is a fresh young girl;

(3) Her eyes are always moving;

(4) She is always brightly smiling;

(5) She possesses all auspicious marks on Her body;

(6) She can agitate Krsna by the fiavor of Her person;

(7) She is expert in the art of singing;

(8) She can speak very nicely and sweetly;

(9) She is expert in presenting feminine attractions;

(10) She is modest and gentle;

(11) She is always very merciful;

(12) She is transcendentally cunning;

(13) She knows how to dress nicely;

(14) She is always shy;

(15) She is always respectful;

(16) She is always patient;

(17) She is very grave;

(18) She is enjoyed by Krsna;

(19) She is always situated on the highest devotional platform;

(20) She is the abode of love of the residents of Gokula;

(21) She can give shelter to all kinds of devotees;

(22) She is always affectionate to superiors and inferiors;

(23) She is always obliged by the dealings of Her associates,

(24) She is the greatest amongst Krsna's girl friends;

(25) She always keeps Krsna under Her control.

 

Krsna has sixty-four important qualifications, and His devotee takes

transcendental pleasure in hearing of them. As explained in

Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, the characteristics are as follows:

(1) His body is well constructed;

(2) His body has all auspicious symptoms;

(3) His body is beautiful;

(4) His body is very glorious;

(5) His body is very strong;

(6) He always iooks like a boy of sixteen;

(7) He is well versed in various languages;

(8) He is truthful;

(9) He is decorated with pleasing words;

(10) He is expert in speaking;

(11) He is very learned;

(12) He is very intelligent;

(13) He is influential;

(14) He is joyful;

(15) He is cunning;

(16) He is expert;

(17) He is grateful;

(18) He is firmly convinced;

(19) He knows how to deal with different circumstances;

(20) He is always conversant with scriptural injunctions;

(21) He is clean;

(22) He is controlled by His devotees;

(23) He is steady;

(24) He is self-controlled;

(25) He is forgiving;

(26) He is grave;

(27) He is speculative;

(28) He is fair in His dealings;

(29) He is magnanimous;

(30) He is religious;

(31) He is a great hero;

(32) He is merciful;

(33) He is respectful;

(34) He is competent;

(35) He is gentle;

(36) He is modest;

(37) He is the protector of the souls surrendered unto Him;

(38) He is the deliverer;

(39) He is the friend of the devotees;

(40) He is submissive to love;

(41) He is all-auspicious;

(42) He is most powerful;

(43) He is famous;

(44) He is devoted to all living entities;

(45) He is worshipable by everyone;

(46) He is very attractive to all women;

(47) He is partial to His devotees;

(48) He is full of all opulence;

(49) He is the supreme controller;

(50) He possesses all honor.

 

These fifty qualities or characteristics are fragmentally present in every

living entity. When they are completely spiritually free and situated in

their original condition, all these qualities can be perceived in human life

 

in minute quantity. In Krsna, however, they exist in totality. There are

five

other transcendental qualities (mentioned below) which can be seen in Visnu,

 

the Supreme Lord, and partially in Lord Siva also, but they are not visibie

in ordinary living entities. These characteristics are as follows:

(1) He is always situated in His original condition;

(2) He is omniscient;

(3) He is evergreen or always fresh;

(4) He is eternally blissful;

(5) He is conversant and is the master of all perfection.

 

Besides these five transcendental characteristics, there are five others

which can be seen in the spiritual sky, especially in the Vaikuntha

planets where Narayana is the predominating Deity. These are:

(1) He has inconceivable qualities;

(2) He is able to sustain innumerable universes;

(3) He is the seed of all incarnations;

(4) He grants the highest perfection to those enemies whom He kills;

(5) He is the most attractive of self-realized persons.

 

The above-mentioned qualities and characteristics, which total sixty in

number, are visible up to the platform of Narayana. However, Krsna has four

special quaiities, which are:

(1) He is able to manifest wonderful pastimes;

(2) He is expert at transcendental flute playing;

(3) He is surrounded by loving devotees;

(4) He possesses unparalleled personal beauty.

 

Thus Krsna has sixty-four transcendental qualities.

Thus Krsna and Radharani are both transcendentally qualified, and both of

Them attract one another. Yet in that transcendental attraction, Radharani

is

greater than Krsna, for the attractiveness of Radharani is the

transcendental

taste in conjugal love. Similarly, there are transcendental tastes in

servitude, friendship and other relationships with Krsna. These can be

described with reference to the context of Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu.

 

Persons who have been thoroughly cleansed by devotional service and are

always joyful, being situated in elevated consciousness, who are very much

attached to the studies of Srimad-Bhagavatam, who are always cheerful in the

 

association of devotees, who have accepted the lotus feet of Krsna as the

ultimate shelter of their lives, and who are pleased to perform all details

of devotional service, have in their pure hearts the transcendental ecstasy

of attachment. When that ecstatic state of being is enriched with love of

Krsna and the transcendental experience, one gradually attains to the mature

 

oneness of spiritual life. Such spiritual life is not possible for those who

 

are not situated in Krsna consciousness and devotional service. This fact is

 

further corroborated in the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu wherein it is said: "It

is

very difficult for the nondevotee to understand the taste of devotional

service. Only one who has completely taken shelter of the lotus feet of

Krsna

and whose life is merged in the ocean of devotional service can understand

this transcendental pleasure."

 

Lord Caitanya thus explained briefly the transcendental situation and

spiritual enjoyment of iife, and He taught that the first stage of

perfection

is to become a religious man in the ordinary sense, as known in the material

 

world. The second stage of perfection is to become materially rich. The

third

stage of material perfection is the attainment of complete sense enjoyment,

and in the fourth stage there is knowledge of liberation. Above this

platform

are those on the fifth stage who are already liberated and who are

established in Krsna consciousness or devotional service to the Lord. In the

 

highest perfection of devotional service in Krsna consciousness, one

experiences the taste of the ecstasy of spiritual reiish.

 

The Lord then told Sanatana Gosvami that He had previously taught his

younger

brother, Rupa Gosvami, at Prayag (Allahabad). The Lord assured Sanatana

Gosvami that He had empowered Rupa Gosvami to spread the knowledge He had

given him. The Lord then similarly ordered Sanatana Gosvami to write books

on

the transcendental loving service of the Lord, and He authorized him to

excavate the different sites of Krsna's pastimes in the district of Mathura.

 

Sanatana Gosvami was also advised to construct temples in Vrndavana and to

write books on the principles of Vaisnavism, as authorized by Lord Caitanya

Himself. Sanatana Gosvami executed all these desires of the Lord--he

constructed the temple of Madanamohana at Vrndavana, and he wrote books on

the principles of devotional service, such as Hari-bhakti-vilasa. Lord

Caitanya further taught Sanatana Gosvami how one can live in the material

world while being in a complete relationship with Krsna, and He also taught

him that there is no necessity for dry renunciation. The purport of these

instructions is that in the present age there are many persons who accept

the

renounced order of life but who are not spiritually advanced. Lord Caitanya

did not approve of one's accepting sannyasa without having perfect knowledge

 

of Krsna consciousness. Actually it is found that there are many so-called

sannyasis whose actions are below those of ordinary men but who pass

themselves off as being in the renounced order of life. Lord Caitanya

Mahaprabhu did not accept such hypocrisy. He taught Sanatana Gosvami to

write

elaborately on the subject of devotional service in his different books.

 

The perfectional stage of spiritual life which one can experience even while

 

being in the material world is described in the Twelfth Chapter of

Bhagavad-gita as follows: "One who is not envious but who is a kind friend

to

all living entities, who does not think himself a proprietor, who is free

from false ego and equal both in happiness and distress, who is always

satisfied and engaged in devotional service with determination and whose

mind

and intelligence are in agreement with Me--he is very dear to Me. He for

whom

no one is put into difficulty and who is not disturbed by anxiety, who is

steady in happiness and distress, is very dear to Me. A devotee who is not

dependent on the ordinary course of activities, who is pure, expert, without

 

cares, free from all pains, and who does not strive for some result, is very

 

dear to Me. One who grasps neither pleasure or grief who neither laments nor

 

desires, and who renounces both auspicious and inauspicous things, is very

dear to Me. One who is equal to friends and enemies, who is equipoised in

honor and dishonor, heat and cold, happiness and distress, fame and infamy,

who is always free from contamination, always silent and satisfied with

anything, who doesn't care for any residence, who is fixed in knowledge and

engaged in devotional service, is very dear to Me. He who follows this

imperishable path of devotional service and who completely engages himself

with faith, making Me the supreme goal, is very, very dear to Me." (Bg.

12.13-20)

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