Inquiries Into the Absolute: Digest 199, Tilaka, Radharani, Subhadradevi, Lord Siva

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Digest 199, December 17th 2006. Answers by His Holiness Romapada Swami Maharaja

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Tilaka, Radharani, Subhadra devi, Lord Siva

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Question: Who was the mother of Subhadra Maharani? Kindly tell me the lilas

of Subhadra Maharani being the sister of Lord Krishna.

 

Answer: Subhadra is the daughter of Vasudeva and Devaki. (Cf SB 10.1.56) For

descriptions of lilas of Subhadra, you can use the vedabase link given below,

particularly refer Canto 10, Ch 86 and also a summary description given in SB

1.13.3-4 (http://vedabase.net/sb)

 

Q: Why is it Srimati Radharani and Subadra Maharani do not wear tilak?

 

Ans: I have no answer as to why it is so, but tradition is that they wear

bindis, not urdhva pundra tilaka.

 

>From a conversation in 1972 with Srila Prabhupada:

 

Cintamani: Thank you. Krsna wears tilaka like we do, Srila Prabhupada?

Prabhupada: Yes. Radharani only red spot.

 

 

Q: Is it forbidden to perform parikrama of Lord Shiva?

 

Ans: By parikrama I assume you mean circumambulation. Scriptures say that Lord

Siva is half circumambulated. You may notice that in Siva temples there is

often a fence on one side. When circumambulating Lord Siva we go around to the

fence, and then turn around and go back. This is called half circumambulation.

 

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