Swami Vivekananda Quotes On Radha

Swami Vivekananda  Quotes On Radha:

Radha (Devanagari: राधा, Bengali: রাধা) or Radhika (Devanagari: राधिका, Bengali: রাধিকা) is considered as Krishna's supreme beloved. Radha-Krishna, the collective form of Radha and Krishna, is considered as the combination of both the feminine as well as the masculine aspects of God. Swami Vivekananda told, it is not easy to understand the relationship of Radha-Krishna. In this article we'll make a collection of Swami Vivekananda quotes and comments on Radha.

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 

Swami Vivekananda's quotes on Radha

God became Krishna and Râdhâ —

Love flows in thousands of coils.

Whoso wants, takes it.

Love flows in thousands of coils —

The tide of love and loving past,

And fills the soul with bliss and joy!

In God all natures are possible. But we can see Him only through human nature. We can love Him as we love a man—as father, son. The strongest love in the world is that between man and woman, and that also when it is clandestine. This is typified in the love between Krishna and Radha.

Kama (lust) is blind and leads to hell. Prema is love, it leads to heaven. There is no idea of lust or sympathy in the love of Krishna and Radha. Radha says to Krishna, "If you place your feet on my heart, all lust will vanish."

Krishna the beautiful aspect of God. Love crystallises into blueness. Blue colour is expressive of intense love. Solomon saw "Krishna". Here Krishna came to be seen by all. Even now, when you get love, you see Radha. Become Radha and be 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 Râdhâ and Krishna. Teach them pure devotion to Sitâ-Râm and Hara-Pârvati. See that no mistake is made in this respect. Remember that the episodes of the divine relationship between Radha and Krishna are quite unsuitable for young minds.

How many understand Radha-Krishna's love?

From Swami Vivekananda's lecture Bhakti, delivered at Sialkote, Punjab—

Take the story of Râdhâ and Krishna in Râsalilâ. The story simply exemplifies the true spirit of a Bhakta, because no love in the world exceeds that existing between a man and a woman. When there is such intense love, there is no fear, no other attachment save that one which binds that pair in an inseparable and all-absorbing bond. But with regard to parents, love is accompanied with fear due to the reverence we have for them. Why should we care whether God created anything or not, what have we to do with the fact that He is our preserver? He is only our Beloved, and we should adore Him devoid all thoughts of fear. A man loves God only when he has no other desire, when he thinks of nothing else and when he is mad after Him. That love which a man has for his beloved can illustrate the love we ought to have for God. Krishna is the God and Radha loves Him; read those books which describe that story, and then you can imagine the way you should love God. But how many understand this? How can people who are vicious to their very core and have no idea of what morality is understand all this? When people drive all sorts of worldly thoughts from their minds and live in a clear moral and spiritual atmosphere, it is then that they understand the abstrusest of thoughts even if they be uneducated. But how few are there of that nature!