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Swami Vivekananda's Quotes On Radha
The madness of Love—God intoxicated man
The allegory of Radha—misunderstood
The restriction more increase—
Lust is the death of love
—Swami Vivekananda
Radha (Devanagari रध! "engali রধ # or
Radhika (Devanagari रधक! "engali রধক # is
considered as $rishna%s su&reme 'eloved Radha)$rishna! the
collective form of Radha and
$rishna! is considered as the com'ination of 'oth the feminine
as well as the masculineas&ects of God Swami Vivekananda told!
it is not easy to understand the relationshi& of
Radha)$rishna *n this article we%ll make a collection of Swami
Vivekananda%s +uotes and
comments on Radha
Swami Vivekananda's quotes on Radha
• God 'ecame $rishna and R,dh, —
Love flows in thousands of coils
-hoso wants! takes it
Love flows in thousands of coils —
The tide of love and loving &ast!.nd fills the soul with
'liss and /oy
• *n God all natures are &ossi'le "ut we can see 0im only
through human nature -e
can love 0im as we love a man—as father! son The strongest love
in the world is that
'etween man and woman! and that also when it is
clandestine This is ty&ified in the
love 'etween $rishna and Radha
• $ama (lust# is 'lind and leads to hell 1rema is love! it leads
to heaven There is no
idea of lust or sym&athy in the love of $rishna and Radha
Radha says to $rishna! 2*f
you &lace your feet on my heart! all lust will vanish2
•
$rishna the 'eautiful as&ect of God Love crystallises into
'lueness "lue colour isex&ressive of intense love Solomon saw
2$rishna2 0ere $rishna came to 'e seen 'y
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all 3ven now! when you get love! you see Radha "ecome Radha and
'e saved There
is no other way
• The madness of Love—God intoxicated man
The allegory of Radha—misunderstood
The restriction more increase— Lust is the death of
love
Self is the death of love
• There is not the least necessity for teaching the divine Love
of R,dh, and $rishna
Teach them &ure devotion to Sit,)R,m and 0ara)1,rvati See
that no mistake is made
in this res&ect Remem'er that the e&isodes of the divine
relationshi& 'etween Radha
and $rishna are +uite unsuita'le for young minds
How many understand Radha-Krishna's love?
4rom Swami Vivekananda%s lecture Bhakti! delivered at
Sialkote! 1un/a'—Take the story of
R,dh, and $rishna in R,salil, The story sim&ly
exem&lifies the true s&irit of a "hakta! 'ecause no
love in the world exceeds that existing 'etween a man and a woman
-hen there
is such intense love! there is no fear! no other attachment save
that one which 'inds that &air
in an inse&ara'le and all)a'sor'ing 'ond "ut with regard to
&arents! love is accom&anied
with fear due to the reverence we have for them -hy should we
care whether God created
anything or not! what have we to do with the fact that 0e is our
&reserver5 0e is only our
"eloved! and we should adore 0im devoid all thoughts of fear .
man loves God only when
he has no other desire! when he thinks of nothing else and when
he is mad after 0im That
love which a man has for his 'eloved can illustrate the love we
ought to have for God
$rishna is the God and Radha loves 0im6 read those 'ooks which
descri'e that story! and
then you can imagine the way you should love God "ut how many
understand this5 0ow can
&eo&le who are vicious to their very core and have
no idea of what morality is understand all
this5 -hen &eo&le drive all sorts of worldly thoughts
from their minds and live in a clear
moral and s&iritual atmos&here! it is then that they
understand the a'strusest of thoughts even
if they 'e uneducated "ut how few are there of that nature7
Conversation with Surendra Nath Sen
4rom Surendra 8ath Sen%s &rivate diary! Complete Works!
Volume V Date 9: ;anuary =!
?onday—
*n the afternoon * came again to Swami/i and saw +uite a good
gathering round him The
to&ic was the ?adhura)"h,va or the way of
worshi&&ing God as hus'and! as in vogue withsome followers
of Shri @haitanya 0is occasional 'ons mots were raising laughter!
when
someone remarked! 2-hat is there to make so much fun of a'out
the Lord%s doings5 Do you
think that he was not a great saint! and that he did not do
everything for the good of
humanity52
Swamii! -ho is that7 Should * &oke fun at you then! my
dear sir7 Aou only see the fun of it!
do you5 .nd you! sir! do not see the lifelong struggle through
which * have &assed to mould
this life after his 'urning ideal of renunciation of wealth and
lust! and my endeavours to
infuse that ideal into the &eo&le at large7 Shri
@haitanya was a man of tremendous
renunciation and had nothing to do with woman and carnal
a&&etites "ut! in later times! his
disci&les admitted women into their order! mixed
indiscriminately with them in his name! and
made an awful mess of the whole thing .nd the ideal of love
which the Lord exem&lified in
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his life was &erfectly selfless and 'ereft of any vestige of
lust6 that sexless love can never 'e
the &ro&erty of the masses "ut the su'se+uent Vaishnava
Gurus! instead of laying &articular
stress first on the as&ect of renunciation in the ?aster%s
life! 'estowed all their Beal on
&reaching and infusing his ideal of love among the
masses! and the conse+uence was that the
common &eo&le could not gras& and assimilate that
high ideal of divine love! and naturally
made of it the worst form of love 'etween man and woman
Q" "ut! sir! he &reached the name of the Lord 0ari to all!
even to the @hand,las6 so why
should not the common masses have a right to it5
Swamii! * am talking not of his &reaching! 'ut of his
great ideal of love —the R,dh,)&rema!
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