Radha the Intriguing Mystery : 4. Swami Krishnananda

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17/10/2018
(Spoken on Radha Ashtami on September 14, 1983)
4.

All the meanings that we read in this world are meaningless in the Kingdom of God.

All the wealth of the dream emperor is meaningless in the waking life.

Not only the possessions but also the values, the very outlook of life and the norms that we set up in every field of human understanding and relationship are, as mentioned already, negated, set at nought, overruled, defied for the sake of a fulfilment—which is God coming into the heart of man.

If we have to understand how God expects a god man to behave, we have only to study the lives of god-men. The great saints who were possessed by God-love and God-experience did not behave like human beings, nor did they behave like males and females.

That they did not behave like human beings is to say the least. They were erratic elements in human society and considered in every way incomprehensible to the human norms of mutual behaviour and the conduct and norms of relationship.


Even to this day it has never been possible for anyone to understand what the relationship is between Sri Krishna and Radha.

They are not husband and wife, not brother and sister, not parent and child. What else is it?

It is something which has never been said anywhere, and never will be said anywhere, because it is not supposed to be said.

As I mentioned, it is a demonstration of human need and human nature, which in ordinary life also manifests itself in our own practical existence. But when we live in the shackles of human society and political embankments related to the physical existence of this body, we many a time try to fit these super normal expectations and visions into the Procrustean bed of the visible norms of the ritual-ridden, mechanised religion of human history.

To be continued ...


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