The character of Radha is not present in any of the Upanishads, obviously, not in the Vedas. It is not sufficiently present even in the Puranas. With respect to the character of Sri Krishna, there are two Puranas mainly. There is the Shrimad Bhagavad Puran and there is the Harivansh Puran. These two are dedicated to Sri Krishna. Even in these two, Radha is scarcely mentioned. Read more....
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Questioner: Pranaam, Acharya Ji. I am in my final year of Chemical Engineering. My question is, what is the bond between Goddess Radha and God Krishna? From holy books, we have seen that they are symbols of devotion, but nowadays, whatever we see, watch on television, and read on wedding invitation cards, they are symbols of love.
You know, behind every divine existence, there is a certain message that needs to be delivered to humanity. So I am not getting what kind of bond it represents.
Acharya Prashant: See, very ideally, very truly, the relationship between Sri Krishna and Radha has to be much the same as between Shiv and Shakti. That has to be the ideal relationship. Unfortunately, in popular culture, that relationship has been totally distorted. Totally distorted. The way they are depicted these days is something that should not be acceptable at all.
They have been presented as symbols of the usual carnal love between a man and a woman. All Road-Romeos love to call their sweethearts as Radha, which is quite unfortunate. No? When I talk about the shallowness of the usual kind of love - the man-woman kind, even teenagers come up and say, “But if Shri Krishna could love Radha, why can’t I?” So all that is quite…
