Friday, March 26, 2010

DIfferent Names of Radha...

Radhika - This is the most common epithet, meaning she whose worship of the Krishna is all powerful. She who embodies supreme focus and mental clarity. The incarnation of the goddess Lakshmi. Beauty, intelligence, and good fortuned one.

Gandharvi - Expert singer

Govinda-nandini - She who gives pleasure to Govinda, name of Krishna, referring to his youthful occupation as a cowherd. His names translate to "cowherd". Sanskrit go means "cow"; pāla and vinda form tatpurusha compounds, literally translating to "finder of cows" and "protector of cows", respectively.The story of how Krishna was given... (Krishna)

Govinda-mohini - She who mystifies Govinda

Govinda-sarvasva - The all-in-all of Govinda

Sarva-kanta Shiromani - The crown jewel of all Krishna's consorts

Krishnamayi - The one who sees Krishna both within and without

Madan-Mohan-Mohini - Within Gaudiya tradition Krishna (as the Supreme Person) is believed to be the enchanter of all living beings, including even Kamadev, Kāmadeva is the Hindu deity of love. His other names include Ragavrinta , Ananga , Kandarpa , Manmatha , Manasija , Madana , Ratikānta ,... (Madan) - The god of attraction. Because Radha has the unique position of being able to enchant even Krishna she is therefore known as Madan-Mohan-Mohini: the enchanter of the enchanter of Cupid.

Aradhana - The root name of Radharani, meaning one who excels in worshiping Krishna

Sarva-lakshmi - The original source of all the goddesses of fortune

Vrshabhanu-nandini - Daughter of Vrishabanu

Vrndavaneshvari - Queen of Vrindavana

Lalita-Sakhi - Friend of the gopi Lalita (gopi), Lalita the name of one of the principal gopis within traditional Gaudiya Vaishnava worship of Radha and Krishna.-Among the gopis:Within Vaishnava theology and Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition, Lalita is included amongst the eight principle gopis, known as 'sakhis' or friends of Srimati Radharani, Lord...

Gokula-Taruni - She whom all young girls of Gokul, According to Hindu mythology concerning Lord Krishna, Gokul was the place where Lord Krishna was brought up under the care of Nanda and Yashoda, the first family of the village. Since Kamsa, Krishna's uncle, used to kill every baby born to Devaki, Nanda exchanged his own new born daughter with... worship

Damodara Rati - She who dresses herself to please Damodara (Krishna)

Radharani – Radha the queen

RadhaKrishna - Worship of Krishna with Radha

Vrajrani - Queen of Vraj ( Krishna being the king)

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Purpose of our birth on this Planet Earth

The Indian sciptures say that the purpose of human birth is realized only, when an individual gains spiritual knowledge, which puts an end to rebirth.Self –realization is the ultimate purpose of our existence here and it should be achieved before we leave this world.Liberation is not only the fruit of spiritual quest but also attainment of mental peace and eternal joy, even while living in this world.Remember always- human birth is a rare opportunity given to us by the Almighty, GOD and one should strive to realize this goal in this life, without wasting it just in materialistic pursuits as per our scriptures. I further read that The first step towards reorienting oneself to this objective is to develop discrimination between what is essential, important and permanent what is not in life. This enables the seeker to remain focused, when his mind is swayed by sensory attractions of this world.The truth is only very people developed the urge to strive for liberation. In ‘’Bhagavan Gita’’, Lord Krishna clearly mentioned, "Hardly one among thousands of men strives to realize Me’’.He also stated that ‘’of those striving Yogis (devoted persons), again, some rare one, knows Me in reality’’. This hard fact is difficult to swallow and also depressing, but this should be taken in the right spirit, for it is not to dissuade a person from striving for liberation, that the lord has said this.It is to reinforce that one that develops even some interest in spiritual life, must consider himself lucky enough and to strive more seriously.So true that Many spiritual seekers like we all start earnestly, but with so many distractions in worldly life, get diverted along the line. Hence the determination to persist till the end must be realized, seriously. Sounds difficult yaar.. anyway further I read that Man should desire only that which would give him eternal joy-knowledge that liberates. It is such one pointed passion for realizing the objective that can bestow success in spiritual life.After training the mind to be discriminative, the spiritual aspirant must understand the nature of the ‘’Supreme Being’’. Now this sounds interesting. Bliss is different from happiness. Material pursuits give happiness, that to for a short period only, where as the bliss we obtain after attaining ‘’ Self- Realization’’ is eternal and its greatness is felt by personal experience only.Then only the purpose of our life in this world is fulfilled.‘’ Source: The Hindu.

Monday, March 8, 2010

True Love






In love, saying that you just love and you dont expect is not true..
In love you do expect..
love is silent...
love is blissful...
love is eternal...
a never ending story...
love is spiritual...
Its a feeling of extreme agony and longing...
but its not about invaluable sacrificing...
Its not about worthless pains...
Its about giving your very self...
Its timeless...
Its about the smile of your beloved...
Its about her wonderful eyes...
Its about her crazy lunar laughs...
Its about her crackling bangles...
Its about her innocence...
Its about companionship...
Its about tendency to get back to one...
Because two is painful...
Everything wants to merge into something...
That is what is called Love...

The Power of love is so overwhelming that even in its skewed form as lust, it impells two people to come together in the name of love. Genuine love essentially commits itself to first giving or offering best from the heart with an attitude of pleasing the recipient. Lust wants to take from others, lust feeds on feverish praise, dominance and recognition, where as love maintains detachment from selfish gain.

Heres an analogy : Both gold and Iron sell in market as metals but a few grams of lustrous soft rare metal costs more than a tonne of its hard and dull counterpart (Iron), similarly selfless love doesnot lose its unprecedented value just because it is rarely experienced. Pretentious words and vain promises are favourite disguises of lust, love on the other hand wears garb of spirituality, speak language of purity, walks path of humility, adopts code of tolerance, being willing to sacrifice everything for welfare of the beloved.

Gentle love is invincible, whereas brutal lust because of its inflamable nature burns to ashes all traces of compassion, reason and empathy, when lust turns to frustration all illusion, false attraction and attachment turns into retaliation in form of abuse, defamation and destruction. THERES NO TRACE OF LOVE HERE...until and unless one is able to descriminate between true love and deceptive lust, one is unable to understand that the ardent lover of god is fully prepared to undergo any kind of adversity birth after birth to attain the lotus feet of the lord.

Once Lord Krishna had a splitting headache, no doctor could cure him, finally krishna revealed that only dust of his unalloyed devotees could give him relief, so the gopis, who were his unalloyed devotees inspite of being aware that this would be the most serious crime to put the dust of there feet on the head of the supreme lord, still went ahead and did it because of there unalloyed devotion, true love for the lord.