Why is Radha-Krishna worshipped throughout the world,among Hindus,much more than Krishna-Rukmini ?

Question

Rukmini was Krishna's wife while Radha was his lover. And according to mythology,Radha is supposed to hav been much older than Krishna and also is said to hav been married to another person before falling in love with Krishna.
Even then,the mate of Krishna is said to be Radha and vice-versa since ancient times.So,is it fair tht a lover gets much more prominence and importance than a loyal and loving spouse?
If yes,then why r such affairs considered a huge taboo in today's society? Serious answers pls...

Answer 1

Stories of divine personages have to be understood in the special context in which they are told.

The character of Radha is figuratively told as that of a lover, so also the love of the cowherd girls (mostly young married women) who under the leadership of Radhika make divine love to Krishna..

In spiritual parlance, the Lord Creator is the only Purusha or Male and all the creatures are considered as Female.. Radha is considered the representative of created world, the Mother Earth... While Rukmini plays the role of an obedient and devoted wife, Radha plays the role of a devoted friend.. She shows to mankind how the Lord can be reached by simple innocent love rather than dry scholarship of scriptures and hard penance in forests… Mother Rukmini shows the path of duty.. She is also won by the Lord against the wishes of her people, in response to her sincere adoration of His glories.. But the story emphasizes the path of love shown by the Gopis – considered the acharyas or teachers of Madhura Bhakthi..

That the love was not mundane love - albeit references to the physical beauty and the joy of sporting - is said to be clear from the fact that the Gopis (cowherd girls) sing in their pain of separation from Krishna (Gopika geetham), "put your holy feet on our bosoms and remove the lust...", for they actually want Hm for His divine attraction (call it love) but His physical beauty infatuates them and they are worried that the mix up of base emotion would have weaned them away from the Lord..

The story of Bhagavatham in which Krishana Leela occurs is told by the saint Sukha who was so pure and free from lust (more renounced than his illustrious father Veda Vyas) which shows that the context in which the story is told could not be about worldly tinsels love bodily love but should be understood differently - not just on the face of the words...

OF the different forms of reaching the Lord, the PRema marga (path of love) is said to be one much easier than the hard paths of Rajayoga Gnana marga etc calling for much effort self control and intellectual introspections.. Considering the Lord as the child or lover or friend and developing a bondage is the path of Bhakthi (divine love)...

I will tell you friend that the holy scriptures have to be understood carefully.. When Lord Jesus makes an hunch backed woman to "lift up her crooked back" and makes her shed the abnormality, it was not just a miracle to convince His divinity among the people... there was a message as well to humanity... He was calling on the sick (hunchbacked)humanity that was bent toward the earth - focussed on material pleasures - to look up at the infinite firmament (sky) with its beauty and eternity - the higher values of love forgiveness and sacrifice - and get released from the bondage of the uncertain, binding, earthly pleasures... So also every episode in all holy scriptures have to be understood at the subtle level and not just at the gross level message...

It is silly to consider that Lord Krishna who teaches humanity about the various paths of reaching Divine status (in His Gita) was himself a subject of lust and perversity.. In such case the great masters of wisdom and virtues would not have accepted Him as Divine...

Even the famous Krishan Bhaktha, composer and Princess Meera loved Krishna though she was married to a Prince.. She gave up her royal life and lived with Saints composing and singing the glory of the Lord.. Brother they are not human love...

You will find such confusing episodes even in the story of Lord Rama (the Vaali episode) and lives of many divine personages.. They may be deliberately left unexplained in the scriptures so that we may delve deep and get the message.. Even in ancient medicines, the names of the herbs would not be told directly but by code names, for mysterious reasons.. If you contact any wise and virtuous men /women they will tell you a lot about the wealth of tips in the seemingly simple stories...

Jai Radhe Krishna..!

Answer 2

Radha is the principle paramour of Krishna in the Srimad Bhagavatam, and the Gita Govinda of the Hindu religion. In many Vaishnava traditions of Hinduism, Radha is regarded as a primary deity, often worshipped to as an incarnation of Goddess Laxmi.

She is considered to be his original shakti, the supreme goddess Other gopis are usually considered to be her maidservants, with Radha having the prominent position of Krishna's favour.

She is the central figure for all the goddesses of fortune. She possesses all the attractiveness to attract the all-attractive Personality of Godhead. She is the primeval internal potency of the Lord.
The Padma Purana describes 18,000 cowherd-girls (gopis) among whom it says 108 are the most important. Among those 108, eight are considered more important still, and among the eight, two have a special position - Chandravali and Radharani. Of the two, Radha is considered the foremost.
Thus she is the most important consort of Krishna, 'His heart and soul',

Answer 3

Some says " Radha did not really exist. She is a symbolic representation of absolute love, adoration, devotion and surrender to the Supreme Being" Some says " Radha was an illusion. She completed Krishna, rather than Krishna completing Radha." Some says "Shree Radha is the soul of Krishn. Like we have our souls which is dear to us more than our lives. We don't physically marry our souls" Krishna is a whole man; there is no feminine element whatsoever in him. If a person is a whole man, he will be incomplete in another sense, and he will need a whole woman to complete him. For, an incomplete man, who is partly man and partly woman, can do without a woman, because there is already an inbuilt woman in him. But for a whole man like Krishna, a Radha is a must, a whole woman like Radha is a must. He cannot do without a Radha.

Answer 4

Radha is a divine female person from the Hindu (Vedic) tradition. She is also known as Radharani, prefixed with the respectful term 'Srimati' by devout followers. Radha is almost always depicted alongside her paramour Krishna and features prominently within the theology of today's Gaudiya Vaishnava religion, which regards Radha as the original goddess Lakshmi. Radharani is also the principal object of worship in the Nimbarka Sampradaya, as Nimbarka, the founder of the tradition, declared that Radha and Krishna together constitute the absolute truth.

Krishna is the 8th Avatar of Lord Vishnu and Radha is Goddess Lakshmi, and in Krishna Avatar their love is considered as eternal and supreme. So Radha and Krishna are inseparable.-

Answer 5

Radha-Krishna can not be worshiped. Krishna can be worshiped only in the Lalji form (CHILD). Those who worship Radha-Krishna has no sanction of Scriptures. Radha-Krishna is not considered an ideal couple any way. Ram-Sita is the ideal couple.

Answer 6

love truimps over duty. a wife is bound by bondage of duty but loving is beyond the call of duty . Very few persons take a call beyond duty.

Age factor has subtle psychological nuance. Great writers and brainy like Dickens have fallen in love with older females

lesser mediocers took at the physical side only

in office romances /affairs u will notice female staff have affairs with higher level boss.

High level lady if she has an affair with lower level man
it will be with much younger man.

u will rarely see offfice affair of a woman having an affair with higher level man and junior in age

it is a relationship of brain and brawn. it depends on which polar axis brain and brawn are located,


indian habit of conveying pshchological phenomenon with parables and folk lore stories.

Answer 7

GREAT RELIGION AND GREAT THOUGHTS...... and we have moral police who go around looking for lovers in the parks and beat them up in our country teling its against our culture hahahhaa
Thanks for this information