Radha Krishna-a

by Anand Swaroop Manchiraju

Title

Radha Krishna-a

Artist

Anand Swaroop Manchiraju

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Digital Art - Digital Art

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RADHA KRISHNA-A, DIGITAL ART
Who are Radha and Krisha?

Wikipedia: Radha, also called Radhika, Radharani and Radhikarani, is almost always depicted alongside Krishna and features prominently within the theology of today's Vallabha and Gaudiya Vaishnava sects, which regards Radha as the original Goddess or Shakti. Radha is also the principal god of worship in the Nimbarka Sampradaya, as Nimbarka, the founder of the tradition, declared that Radha and Krishna together constitute the absolute truth.

Wikipedia: Krishna, is a deity, worshipped across many traditions of Hinduism in a variety of different perspectives. While many Vaishnava groups recognize him as an avatar of Lord Vishnu; some traditions within Krishnaism, consider Krishna to be Svayam Bhagavan, or the Supreme Being.

What's Radha and Krisna's love story?

Krisna and his beautiful cowgirl love interest, Radha, pursue each other around the forested hills of Vrindavan. Though Krisna continuously escapes Radha's grasp, she calls out from her heart to have him stand still, if even for a moment. Then the moment shifts, and the lovely Radha becomes the pursued. Krisna turns toward her and follows her around the hills. Though each loves the other deeply, their love is complicated. They barely spend any actual time with each other — maybe a fleeting moment here, or a few wee hours of the morning there. Their love is never consummated by the fires of marriage. It always remains in this early romantic stage, where each is perpetually consumed by the other, in thought, word, and action.

The divine play (lila) between Krishna and Radha is very playful. Like a great game of cat and mouse, the anticipation is what makes the game exciting, not the conclusion.

It is this sweet separation of lover and beloved that is cultivated in the tradition known as bhakti yoga.

Krishna's and Radha's relationship has its challenges — despite their love, they eventually both marry other people. In Krishna's case, thousands of others. What they represent, then, is not some idealized romance. Rather, they represent the steadfastness of our desire to experience the divine. They embody the unquenchable devotion that persists even when what we most want remains elusive, just beyond our grasp.

Name Meanings:

Krisna's name comes from the Sanskrit word Kṛṣṇa, which means "black", "dark" or "dark blue". The waning moon is called Krishna Paksha in the Vedic tradition, relating to the adjective meaning "darkening". Sometimes it is also translated as "all-attractive", according to members of the Hare Krishna movement. He's also commonly called Mohan "enchanter", Govinda, "Finder of the cows" or Gopala, "Protector of the cows".

Radha's most common name variation, Radhika, means she whose worship of the Krishna is all powerful. She embodies supreme focus and mental clarity and is the incarnation of the goddess Lakshmi. She's the embodiment of beauty, intelligence and good fortune.

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