Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is adolescent and always freshly youthful
Śrīla Prabhupāda: “Now there is a very nice song. I shall sing if you can play on the harmonium. Yes. This is a Rūpa Gosvāmī’s song.” (sings)
Audio Player“Among the gopīs, Śrīmatī Rādhikā is the foremost. She surpasses all in beauty, in good qualities, in good fortune and, above all, in love.” (Caitanya-caritāmṛta Ādi 4.214)
“The beauty of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s eyes forcibly devours the beauty of newly grown blue lotus flowers, and the beauty of Her face surpasses that of an entire forest of fully blossomed lotuses. Her bodily luster seems to place even gold into a painful situation. Thus the wonderful, unprecedented beauty of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is awakening in Vṛndāvana.” (Caitanya-caritāmṛta Antya 1.169, Purport)
“The beauty of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is described as follows: ‘Her eyes defeat the attractive features of the eyes of the cakorī bird. When one sees the face of Rādhārāṇī, he immediately hates the beauty of the moon. Her bodily complexion defeats the beauty of gold. Thus, let us all look upon the transcendental beauty of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.” (Nectar of Devotion, Chapter 44)
“In the Vidagdha-mādhava, Second Act, verse 31, Kṛṣṇa tells His friend, ‘My dear friend, what a wonderful thing it is that since I have seen the beautiful lotus eyes of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, I have developed a tendency to spit on the moon and the lotus flower!’ ” (Nectar of Devotion, Chapter 50)
“There is no comparison to Rādhārāṇī’s beauty and the luster of Her transcendental body. The so-called beauty of the moon has fallen on the ground in the presence of Rādhārāṇī’s beauty.” (From Vrindavana by Srila Narottama das Thakura)
“Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s affection, Her exquisite beauty and good behavior, Her artistic dancing and chanting and Her poetic compositions are all so attractive that they attract the mind of Kṛṣṇa, who attracts the mind of everyone in the universe.” (Caitanya-caritāmṛta Madhya 17.212)
“Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has stated that devotional service attracts even Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa attracts everyone, but devotional service attracts Kṛṣṇa. The symbol of devotional service in the highest degree is Rādhārāṇī. Kṛṣṇa is called Madana-mohana, which means that He is so attractive that He can defeat the attraction of thousands of Cupids. But Rādhārāṇī is still more attractive, for She can even attract Kṛṣṇa. Therefore, devotees call Her Madana-mohana-mohinī—the attractor of the attractor of Cupid.” (Nectar of Devotion, Chapter 1)
“Srimati Rādhārāṇī is the most beautiful, and She always enchants Krishna, but at the same time, Krishna is always the Enchanter of Rādhārāṇī. This reciprocal attraction of Rādhārāṇī and Krishna is the basic principal of Lord Caitanya’s philosophy.” (Srila Prabhupada Letter, May 22, 1969)
“In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta it is said that when Kṛṣṇa comes before Rādhārāṇī, She becomes so much engladdened by seeing the beauty of Kṛṣṇa that She becomes more beautiful. And as soon as Rādhārāṇī becomes beautiful, Kṛṣṇa becomes engladdened and He becomes more beautiful. So unlimitedly there is competition of becoming more beautiful, duhe lage hurai… That is the statement. Competition. Because in the spiritual world everything is unlimited. So unlimitedly, both of Them becoming beautiful and both of Them enjoying unlimitedly. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.” (Srila Prabhupada Lecture, New Vrindavan, September 6, 1972)
“In the Lalita-mādhava, Rūpa Gosvāmī explains that the movements of Kṛṣṇa’s eyebrows are just like the Yamunā, and the smiling of Rādhārāṇī is just like the moonshine. When the Yamunā and the moonshine come in contact on the bank of the river, the water tastes just like nectar, and drinking it gives great satisfaction. It is as cooling as piles of snow.” (Nectar of Devotion, Chapter 44)
“In the words of Vaiṣṇava poets, it is said that the Lord’s beauty is so enchanting that it defeats hundreds of thousands of Cupids. He is therefore called Madana-mohana. It is also described that the Lord sometimes becomes mad after the beauty of Rādhārāṇī. Poets describe that under those circumstances, although Lord Kṛṣṇa is Madana-mohana, He becomes Madana-dāha, or enchanted by the beauty of Rādhārāṇī. Actually, the Lord’s beauty is superexcellent, surpassing even the beauty of Lakṣmī in Vaikuṇṭha. The devotees of the Lord in the Vaikuṇṭha planets want to see the Lord as the most beautiful, but the devotees in Gokula or Kṛṣṇaloka want to see Rādhārāṇī as more beautiful than Kṛṣṇa.” (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.15.42, Purport)
“Kṛṣṇa is the most beautiful, Rādhārāṇī is the most beautiful. Couple, young couple. Our object of worship when we see how nice Rādhārāṇī, how nice Kṛṣṇa, beauty. Yes. Wherefrom the beauty worship has come in this material world unless there is beauty in the original form, Kṛṣṇa and Rādhārāṇī? So, God cannot be nirākāra (without form). Otherwise, why this beauty worship has come?” (Srila Prabhupada Lecture, Bombay, October 13, 1973)
“Madana means Cupid. Cupid enchants everyone. Cupid. And Kṛṣṇa enchants Cupid. Therefore, His name is Madana-mohana. He’s so beautiful that even Cupid is enchanted by Him. But again, on the other side, Kṛṣṇa, although He’s so beautiful that He enchants the Cupid, still He is enchanted by Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. Therefore, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s name is Madana-mohana-mohinī. Kṛṣṇa is the enchanter of the Cupid, and Rādhārāṇī is the enchanter of that enchanter. So these are very high-grade spiritual understanding in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. It is not fiction or imagination, concoction. They are facts. They are facts. And every devotee can have such privileges if he is actually advanced.” (Srila Prabhupada Lecture, Los Angeles, April 23, 1973
“Rādhe jaya jaya madhava-dayite. How She is? Gokula-taruṇī-maṇḍala-mahite. Taruṇī, taruṇī means young girls. You’ll see the pictures, they are all young girls. But of all the young girls, She is the most beautiful. She is enchanting to the young girls also. She is so beautiful. Gokula-taruṇī-maṇḍala-mahite. Dāmodara-rati-vardhana-veśe. And She always dresses Her so nicely that Dāmodara, Kṛṣṇa, becomes attracted by Her beauty. Hari-niṣkuta-vṛndā-vipineśe. And She is the only lovable object of Kṛṣṇa, and She is the queen of Vṛndāvana. This queen of Vṛndāvana.” (Srila Prabhupada Rādhāstami Lecture, Montreal, August 30, 1968)
Audio PlayerŚrīla Rūpa Goswāmī
Śrī Rādhikā-stava
rādhe jaya jaya mādhava-dayite
gokula-taruṇī-maṇḍala-mahite
(1) Oh Rādhā! Oh beloved of Mādhava! You are worshiped by all the young girls of Gokula! All glories unto You! All glories unto You!
dāmodara-rati-vardhana-veśe
hari-niṣkuṭa-vṛndā-vipineśe
(2) You dress Yourself in such a way as to increase Lord Dāmodar’s love and attachment for You. Oh Queen of Vṛndāvan, which is the pleasure grove of Lord Hari!
vṛṣabhānūdadhi-nava-śaśi-lekhe
lalitā-sakhi guṇa-ramita-viśākhe
(3) Oh new moon who has arisen from the ocean of King Vṛṣabhānu! O friend of Lalitā! Viśākhā loyally serves You due to Your wonderful qualities of friendliness, kindness, and faithfulness to Krishna!
koruṇāṁ kuru moyi koruṇā-bhorite
sanaka-sanātana-varṇita-charite
(4) You who are filled with compassion! Your divine characteristics are described by the great sages Sanaka and Sanātan! O Rādhā, please be merciful to me!
“One day when Sri Vrishabhanu Maharaj, the king of Raval, went to the Yamuna river to take his daily morning bath, he was struck with wonder when he saw a glorious golden lotus flower which was endowed with an unearthly beauty and was radiating a divine effulgence. Being mesmerized by the transcendental thousand petaled lotus flower, he approached it and looking inside it, he saw a most amazing, gorgeous, delicate, divine baby girl, lying on the whorl of the flower.
Since he had been praying for a daughter from his worshipable Lord, the Sun god, he immediately took the baby girl in his lap and accepted her as the blessing of the Sun God. Taking her home, he joyously told his wife, Devi Kirtida, about the incident, and they both bathed the child with tears of love which were incessantly flowing from their eyes.
Oblivious to the fact that they had received the original Laxmi and the consort of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krishna, as their daughter, they simply thought of her as their very dear child and showered all their maternal affection upon her. Despite their unbounded happiness, they were greatly saddened by the fact that their daughter was not opening her eyes, because of which they did not celebrate her birth with the residents of Raval.
However, anticipating the appearance of Srimati Radhika, Narada Muni soon came to the house of Vrishabhanu Maharaj and after the initial pleasantries inquired from him about his children.
Maharaj Vrishabhanu then called Sridama forwards and submitted him to the lotus feet of the sage. However, Narada Muni was eager to know about their daughter, but due to her being blind, they did not inform him about her. Upon being insisted and asked repeatedly, he finally told about Srimati Radhika, and hearing about her Narada Muni immediately felt great ecstasy in his heart. He then asked to see the child, and instructing them to make arrangements for a ceremony that he would perform for her, he worshiped her with the choicest of prayers when they had gone to make the arrangements. In order to fulfil the desire of the great devotee, Srimati Radhika appeared before him in her Kishori form and blessed Narada Muni.
pamho agtacbsp, sat sri akal means the real beauty is beyond the factor time used to say the devotees of GURU NANAK WHO IS A ETERNAL ASSOCIATE OF SRI CAITANYA MAHAPRABHU, HE also started food for life around all over the world they feed the human society, but SRIMADI RADHARANI IS NOT A ORDINARY SAT SRI AKAL, SHE IS THE SUPREME BEAUTY BEYOND THE FACTOR TIME, SHE IS the greatest devotee and HDG ACBSP is a pure devotee of SRI-JI and THEY will conquer all the worlds because BHAKTI DEVI IS VERY CONTAGIOUS. agtacbsp ys haribol
I forgot to glorify SRIMADI RADHARANI AVIRBHAVA MAHOTSAVA KI JAY ,it’s a auspicious day for all the bhakti yogi to get the blessing of THE SUPREME FEMALE BEAUTY BECAUSE SHE CAN TAKE ANYONE WHO GLORIFY HER WITH PURE DEVOTION EVEN IF ONE IS NOT INITIATED SHE IS COMPLETELY SVARAT INDEPENDENT LIKE KRSNA,,to chant the song three times at least today we sing RADHARANI KI JAY MAHARANI KI JAY BOLO VARSANE VARI KI JAY JAY JAY…….all glories to our best friend in the sublime form of SRIMADI RADHARANI ki JAY ys haribol
Pamho agtacbsp, our purpose in our daily chanting hare krsna is to attract SRIMADI RADHARANI BECAUSE IF WE GET ACCEPTED BY SRIMADI RADHARANI WE GET ACCEPTED BY SRI KRSNA TOO BECAUSE SHE TELL TO SRI KRSNA : THIS DEVOTEE IS BETTER THEN ME PLEASE ACCEPT HIM , THEN SHE SAID I DON’T KNOW WHAT MAKE KRSNA HAPPY BUT IF HE IS HAPPY TO SEE ME DISTRESSED THAT DISTRESS IS THE HIGHEST HAPPINESS FOR ME,SHE IS THE GREATEST DEVOTEE WITHOUT ANY DOUBT ,WE HOPE TO GET HER MERCY TODAY BY CHANTING AND GLORIFY HER BY THE MERCY OF SSGG. agtacbsp ys haribol