Srimati Radharani on love

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Srimati Radharani said: "If you want to understand My love for Krsna

then listen... Prema is so great that even the knowers of the Vedas cannot

know it, nor others who claim to know it. Sakhi! One who teaches prema to an

inquisitive person cannot know it, nor can their hearer know it. It's all

just imitation! Prema disappears before both the discriminate and

indiscriminate person, but that pure-hearted soul who is free from

discrimination and who is full of sacred greed, is able to approach the

throne of natural love. That is shown through the lover's activities, which

are only dedicated to the happiness of the beloved."

 

"Just as a lion feeds himself on elephants, prema feeds itself,

defeating all miseries that are as heavy as mountains and are caused by

things of this world, the next world, one's own family, one's enemies or

one's most beloved one. That lion of prema is proud of its bodily lustre and

is fearless. He can go to sleep without worrying. What worries will the lion

have when the dogs of unfavourable attachments bark? Prema shines like a

lamp in the darkness."

 

"Because of this deceitfulness, prema appears to be fresh and

intoxicating at every moment, giving joy to the three worlds like the cool

moon (during union) and heat like the burning sun at the time of universal

destruction during separation."

 

"O dear sakhi! In whom else in all the three worlds or beyond them

but in Krsna, the prince of the cowherds, is this prema to be found? Only

the doe-eyed gopis of Vrndavana can relish this, according to their

qualifications."

 

"Sometimes this prema, which gives Krsna unlimited bliss, appears to

be lust, but sometimes lust also looks like prema to some people. Krsna, the

crown jewel of clever artists, knows this, but that lust does not make Him

happy. And when one gopi says: 'O my friend, I'm very much afflicted by

feeling of separation. Quickly bring me to Krsna' then You should not think

that is lust, because she is only interested in Krsna's happiness then."

 

"Krsna is an ocean of love, a mine of jewel-like qualities, and He

is most attractive to the girls. For this He shows symptoms of lust like

deceitfulness, naughtiness and crookedness, but this is actually prema. Can

a hundred thousand girls, even with great endeavor, satisfy Krsna's desires?

None of them can. So it must be their causeless love for Him that makes Him

interested in them."

 

"Of all these gopis, Lord Krsna is most attracted to Me. That is

well known in the world. That can never be false. He consider My love to be

as great as Mount Meru, and the love of the other gopis to be like three or

four mustard seeds."