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By Sanjib Mukherjee,
Radha is the embodiment of devotion with her entire existence dedicated to loving her Lord Krishna. She loved Krishna from the very core of her being and totally accepted everything about him, even the flirtatious attentions of all the fellow gopis (village girls) who also had their eyes on her beloved.
Nothing in this universe could ever move her from her affections; Radha did not care for all the other women chasing her love, did not bother with all the animals who unconditionally loved Krishna, or be concerned with the environment or nature who adored the lands Krishna graced. Nothing could move Radha from her one-pointed focus towards her Lord except for one tiny matter, which would bring out the most extreme jealousy within her. Throughout her life, Radha had always yearned to become Krishna’s flute.
Krishna is seen as the eight avatar of Vishnu (the God of preservation, who governs this entire creation). He entered the world some 5000 years ago and came with the intention of restoring righteousness within people’s hearts and uplift the spirituality of mankind. For each being to be cleansed of their vasanas (impressions) and karma (consequences of past actions), they would have needed a human body in order to experience this world and move through the journey life had mapped out for them.
The spiritual upliftment of a person is done through aura cleansing and internally connecting themselves with their higher infinite nature. Awareness of one’s inner consciousness is developed through igniting the 7 chakras (centres of energy) located running down the nervous system in the spine. Through a combination of meditation, positive thoughts, wisdom and intense dedication, the chakras can be released of their divine energies and help move an individual towards the goal of reaching their higher self. In becoming aware of your true self, you become aware of the divine.
Krishna is seen as a complete manifestation of the divine consciousness and to be in his presence is considered to be the greatest boon a person could ever wish for. In his company, wisdom, compassion, love, self realisation and innate talents all rise to the surface as the divine God you see on the outside is just a mere reflection of the divinity residing within us all. Krishna is said to not only guide us towards the source of our higher nature, but actually take us there himself in an elegant and effortless manner. Any barriers or obstacles we face to reaching our spiritual goals are completely removed by Krishna himself.
From a practical perspective, this is done by Krishna working through each chakra in our body and turning all our internal energies towards the divine. Remember how we mentioned the body has 7 chakras?.. well the musical flute in turn has 7 holes. Each hole in the flute plays a different note when held down, and when each of these notes are played in unison, beautiful music can be heared. In Krishna’s presence, the flute does not need to do anything to produce divine music, Krishna works through all the holes and allows his magic to shine through, the same way Krishna works through our 7 bodily chakras to release the natural beauty we have within us all.
Radha envied the flute because she too yearned to be an instrument who purely existed to be used by her beloved Krishna. She wanted to be the follow and empty vessel which once touched by Krishna’s lips, would simply allow his divinity in the form of music to play through.
Grace can only flow through Krishna’s flute as there is nothing inside its body to prevent his will from coming through. As human beings, we too can experience this same grace by removing our ego’s and small minded concepts, to become hollow and empty vehicles. Radha realised the power of Krishna’s flute as it existed to be nothing other than an instrument of the divine. Only Radha was able to come to this realisation as only she could love Krishna with every cell in her body. Radha symbolises devotion and the flute represents our human body, when they both connect in union with another, Krishna appears in the form of absolute beauty and music.
really nice!!!!!!
lovely article!!!loved it
beautiful.
Beautifully described
where there is devotion there is love, and karma yoga begins from serving ,love and samrapan
Beautiful thoughts!!
to add to it, Radha is the embodiment of true devotion and innate with unfathomed emotions of and for the lord….. so you see its not the form or the body thats congregated, but the delta consciousness of the soul with the supreme… Krishna means in spirituality the one who attracts and its none other than the attribution of the supreme…….. so its the pure subtle relation of soul with the supreme…..
Beautifully spoken Lalit..thanks for sharing…
This was beautifully written Sanjib, and very accessible. Thank YOU for sharing
very beautiful…….article:))
beautifully written, I even felt the musical vibrations through my 7 chakras. what a divine feeling. great sanjib, keep on writing, your effortless work inspires so many of them. keep it up. jai grd.
Very true.
Another perspective on Krishna, He’s not only the eighth incarnation of Vishnu, but also the supreme Personality of Godhead, out of which Vishnu emanated, in the begining of creation.
Thus, there are two aspects of Krishna; Krishna, the Source of all existence and the sum totality of all creation and the very supersoul seated in the heart of all created beings, and the Krishna who manifested on earth, in His original form, to vanquish evil and once again establish righteousness on earth.
The concept of the flute is simply beautuful.
Those who ever tried playing a flute (like me) can really feel what is it about…
A very interesting interpretation of the Radha-krishna relationship is that of the ”self’ longing to unite with its source. As long as the being continues to look without, it remains an outward flow or ‘dhara’. As soon as the flow is reversed and is inward it becomes ‘radha’ or that which seeks union with the eternal.
So metaphorically radha exemplifies every individual’s desire to be one with the divine (Krishna). The allegory of their love, is for us to experience by means of ‘sringar ras’ the play of the divine, whence krishna makes music with his ephemeral flute (to call out) to stir the seeker each time she is caught in the world. … it is in going beyond the obvious that we can truly understand the journey of Radha’s inward ‘flow’
really beautiful..
Sujata, great insight.
If Radha is the path, Krishna is the ‘attraction’….of the soul to walk towards the path.and on the path. Here the path itself becomes the goal/destination.
Amazingly, the word Krishna which is phonetically so close to the word Christ, means the same in two languages….’attraction’ in English and ‘akarshan’ in Hindi and maybe in more.
KRISHNA swarup is always complete with the presence of RADHA. That’s why KRISHNA is in ‘LEHANGA’ and has two ‘MUKUT’ and even wear ‘NATHU’. so we say ‘RADHE-KRISHNA’.
FLUTE is swrup of lord SHIVA who was HANUMAN in RAM avatar and asked NARAYAN to bless him that in KRISHNA avatar, he would not have to be away from his NARAYANA as he has to separate from his NARAYAN lot of times in RAM avatar.
When KRISHNA, “ATTRACTION” Plays FLUTE, the SHIVA “That LOVE all being as a same” result is SURRENDER no other option. Jai Guru Dev