Saturday, November 12, 2005
True Love
‘You know you are in love when you see the world in her eyes and her eyes everywhere in the world’
How does one describe love?
Let’s look at mythology;
The eternal saga of love between Radha and Krishna. How do we define love of Radha and Krishna? Was not it an extra marital affair? Was it an ideal one?
How do we consider the love story as the ideal one. Krishna’s love to Radha seems to be only his youthful dalliance at Vrindavan. After he leaves Vrindavan Radha is no more there in his life. He married Rukmini and Satyabhama. Radha simply vanishes from his life. Then how can be the ideal love story?
But the same is not so with Radha. Radha is deeply immersed in love with Krishna. Her whole world, her existence is around krishna. So great was Radha's love for Krishna that even today her name is uttered whenever Krishna is referred to, and Krishna worship is thought to be incomplete without the deification of Radha. Whatever it might have been, I think the Radha Krishna love story may be the most fascinating of all love affairs. We have numerous stories of Radha Krishna in all the Indian languages, in paintings, in murals, in statues.
How does one describe love?
Let’s look at mythology;
The eternal saga of love between Radha and Krishna. How do we define love of Radha and Krishna? Was not it an extra marital affair? Was it an ideal one?
How do we consider the love story as the ideal one. Krishna’s love to Radha seems to be only his youthful dalliance at Vrindavan. After he leaves Vrindavan Radha is no more there in his life. He married Rukmini and Satyabhama. Radha simply vanishes from his life. Then how can be the ideal love story?
But the same is not so with Radha. Radha is deeply immersed in love with Krishna. Her whole world, her existence is around krishna. So great was Radha's love for Krishna that even today her name is uttered whenever Krishna is referred to, and Krishna worship is thought to be incomplete without the deification of Radha. Whatever it might have been, I think the Radha Krishna love story may be the most fascinating of all love affairs. We have numerous stories of Radha Krishna in all the Indian languages, in paintings, in murals, in statues.
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