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Srimati Radharani’s Appearance by Krishna.com Srimati   Radharani   is   the   eternal   consort   of   Lord   Krishna.   Five   thousand   years ago,   when   Lord   Krishna   came   to   this   planet   to   perform   His   pastimes,   Srimati Radharani   also   appeared.   This   year   we   celebrate   her   appearance   on   September 15.   This   special   day   is   known   as   Radhashtami.   The   following   is   adapted   from   a lecture by His Holiness Varshana Swami: “On   a   half-moon   night   in   the   month   of   Bhadra,   King   Vrishabhanu   came   to   the Jamuna   to   bathe   and   found   himself   engulfed   in   a   golden   aura,   the   golden   aura   of pure   love.   It   was   emanating   from   a   lotus,   which   had   a   baby   girl   standing   on   its whorl.   When   the   king   returned   to   the   palace   with   the   baby,   Queen   Kirtida   was delighted. She was also shocked that the girl was blind. “Lord   Krishna’s   mother,   Yashoda,   heard   that   her   best   friend   Kirtida   had   a   baby, so   she   came   to   visit   along   with   her   husband   and   her   son.   Krishna   crawled   up   to the    cradle    and    pulled    Himself    up    and    looked    in.    At    that    moment,    Srimati Radharani’s   eyes   fluttered   and   opened   wide   and   blossomed   like   lotuses.   It   seems that   she   did   not   want   to   see   anything   of   this   world,   only   the   form   of   Sri   Krishna. Everyone was delighted. “Srimati   Radharani   is   the   mother   of   the   universe,   the   spiritual   mother   of   all souls.   And   the   concept   of   mother   is   the   most   sacred   symbol—that   of   purity, selflessness,   caring,   sharing,   nurturing,   and   love.   That   is   why   our   sacred   mantra is   the   holy   names.   It   is   the   holy   names   in   the   vocative.   Hare   Krishna,   Hare Krishna,   Krishna   Krishna,   Hare   Hare   /   Hare   Rama,   Hare   Rama,   Rama   Rama, Hare Hare. “‘Hare’   means   ‘Radhe.’   It   is   a   plaintive,   desperate   cry   for   the   mother.   ‘Radhe! Please   wake   us   up   from   this   nightmare   of   mortal   life!   Remind   us   of   the   father   we have forgotten and take us home!’”
In   the   Krishna   consciousness   movement,   devotees   carefully   worship   Srimati   Radharani   as   the   bestower of   devotional   service   to   Krishna,   by   attentively   chanting   her   name   in   the   maha-mantra,   by   worshiping her   deity   form,   and   by   following   the   instructions   of   the   most   merciful   Sri   Chaitanya   Mahaprabhu,   who   is the combined form of Radha and Krishna. “(Therefore)   Radha   is   parama-devata,   the   supreme   goddess,   and   She   is   worshipable   for   everyone.   She   is the protectress of all, and She is the mother of the entire universe.” —Caitanya Caritamrita, Adi 4.89
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Śrīla Prabhupāda in Montreal https://vanipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Srila_Prabhupada%27s_Life_-_1968
June Jun 3 to 30     June 03 - Lecture BG 07.03     June 10 - Lecture BG 04.05 - Montreal     June 10 - Lecture SB 07.06.01 - Montreal     June 11 - Lecture - Montreal     June 11 - Writes letter to the U.S. Department of Justice to apply for permenant or immigration visa as Religious Minister     June 12 - Lecture SB 07.06.01 - Montreal     June 13 - Lecture BG 04.07 - Montreal     June 14 - Lecture BG 04.08 - Montreal     June 15 - Lecture - Montreal     June 16 - Lecture SB 07.06.03 - Montreal     June 19 - Lecture BG 04.09 - Montreal     June 20 - Lecture SB 01.04.25 - Montreal     June 23 - Lecture SB 07.06.06-9 - Montreal     June 26 - Lecture - Montreal     June 29 - Lecture Excerpt - Montreal
August Aug 1 to 30     August 02 - Lecture SB 01.02.05 - Montreal     August 03 - Lecture SB 01.02.06 - Montreal     August 03 - writes a letter to Pope Paul VI     August 11 - Lecture Initiation Brahmana - Montreal     August 15 - Lecture Initiation - Montreal     August 15 - Conversation - Montreal     August 16 - Janmāṣṭamī, appearance day of Śrī Kṛṣṇa     August 17 - Vyāsa-pūjā, appearance day of Śrīla Prabhupāda     August 17 - Lecture SB 07.09.11 - Montreal     August 18 - Lecture SB 07.09.12 - Montreal     August 19 - Lecture SB 07.09.12 - Montreal     August 20 - Lecture SB 07.09.12-13 - Montreal     August 21 - Lecture SB 07.09.13 - Montreal     August 22 - Lecture SB 07.09.13-14 - Montreal     August 23 - Lecture Excerpt - Montreal     August 24 - Lecture BG 04.01 - Montreal     August 25 - Conversation - Montreal     August 26 - Conversation - Montreal     August 30 - Rādhāṣṭamī, appearance day of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī
July Jul 1 to 31     July 01 - Lecture SB 07.09.08 - Montreal     July 02 - Lecture SB 07.09.08 - Montreal     July 04 - Lecture SB 07.09.09 - Montreal     July 06 - Lecture SB 07.09.09 - Montreal     July 09 - Lecture SB 07.09.10 - Montreal     July 10 - Lecture SB 07.09.10 - Montreal     July 12 - Lecture SB 07.09.10 - Montreal     July 14 - Lecture SB 07.09.10-11 - Montreal     July 16 - Conversation - Montreal     July 17 - Purport to Sri-Krsna-Caitanya Prabhu - Montreal     July 18 - Lecture Excerpt - Montreal     July 20 - Lecture Excerpt - Montreal     July 22 - Lecture Wedding Paramananda and Satyabhama - Montreal     July 24 - Lecture Initiation - Montreal     July 27 - Lecture Excerpt - Montreal     July 27 - Conversation - Montreal     July 28 - Lecture to Indian Audience - Montreal     July 29 - Lecture Initiation - Montreal
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October Oct 23 to 27 - Montreal     October 23 - Lecture SB 02.01.02-5 - Montreal     October 25 - Lecture BG 13.06-7 - Montreal     October 26 - Lecture - Montreal     October 27 - Conversation - Montreal
Tonight’s lecture
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Śrīla Prabhupāda’s complete lecture on Rādhāṣṭami, August 30th, 1968 in Montreal
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pleasure, custom, in every..., in Oriental countries, that in the palace there are many beautiful girls, they're always dancing and giving pleasure to the kings and the prince. So Lord Buddha was also in such pleasure, but he gave up everything and began to meditate. There are many hundreds of instances in Indian history that to realize the Brahman pleasure they gave up everything. They gave up everything. That is the way. Tapasya means voluntarily accepting something severe for realizing the supreme pleasure. That is called tapasya. So if, for tasting a little Brahman pleasure, all materialistic pleasures are to be given up, do you think that the Supreme Brahman, Lord Kṛṣṇa, is enjoying this material pleasure? Is it very reasonable? This Kṛṣṇa, He's enjoying lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama- sevyamānam (Bs. 5.29). Hundreds and thousands of goddess of fortune are engaged in His service. Do you think these lakṣmīs are material woman? How Kṛṣṇa can take pleasure in the material woman? No. This is mistake. Ānanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhis tābhir ya eva nija-rūpatayā kalābhiḥ (Bs. 5.37). In the Brahma-saṁhitā you'll find that He expands His ānanda-cinmaya-rasa, the mellow of transcendental pleasure potency. And these gopīs are expansion of His pleasure potency, and Rādhārāṇī is the center. Rādhārāṇī is the center. So Rādhārāṇī is not... Don't take that Rādhārāṇī is an ordinary woman, like we have our wife or sister or mother. No. She is the pleasure potency. And the birth of Rādhārāṇī was not from the womb of any human being. She was found by Her father in the field. While father was plowing, he saw one little nice child is lying there, and he had no children, so he caught it and presented to the queen, "Oh, here we have got a very nice child." "How you got?" "Oh, in the field." Just see. Rādhārāṇī's janma is like that. So this janma is today, and Rādhā, this name is sometimes not found in Bhāgavata. So the atheistic class of men protest that "Rādhārāṇī's name is not in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. How this name came, Rādhārāṇī?" But they do not know how to see it. There is anayārādhyate. There are many gopīs, but there is mention that by this particular gopī He is served more pleasingly. Kṛṣṇa accepts this
Now today is our Rādhāṣṭami ceremony. I must speak now something about Rādhārāṇī, and then I shall go up, reach my apartment at twelve. In the meantime, you can observe the ceremonies. So, so far Rādhārāṇī, Rādhārāṇī, today is the birthday of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. Rādhārāṇī is the pleasure potency of Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Brahman. Just try to understand. Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Brahman. Paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma pavitraṁ paramaṁ bhavān (BG 10.12). So when paraṁ brahma wants to enjoy... That enjoying spirit is there in the paraṁ brahma. Otherwise we cannot have this enjoying spirit. Because we are part and parcel, therefore we have got that enjoying spirit; but that is materially contaminated. But the fact is there, because Kṛṣṇa, He is enjoying, this enjoying spirit we have got also, but I do not know how to enjoy. We are trying to enjoy in the matter, in the dull matter. That is spiritual. So brahman, brahman sukhānubhūtyā. People are trying to feel what is brahma-sukha, pleasure of brahmānubhāva. That is not material pleasure. So many yogīs, they have given up their family life, their kingdom, and meditating to achieve that Brahman pleasure. Actually, the idea is Brahman pleasure. So many brahmacārīs, so many sannyāsīs, they are trying to achieve that Brahman pleasure, and in order to achieve that Brahman pleasure they are neglecting, they are kicking off all this material pleasure. Do you think that Brahman pleasure is ordinary, this material pleasure? To achieve a portion of Brahman pleasure, if they are kicking off all this material pleasure... Don't talk of ourselves. We are ordinary men. In the history we have got instances, that of Bharata Mahārāja, Bharata Mahārāja, under whose name this planet is called Bhārata-varṣa. That Bharata Mahārāja was the emperor of the whole world. And as emperor he had his beautiful wife, young children. But at the age of twenty-four years, just young man, he gave up everything. All right. This is very old story, of course, but you know Lord Buddha. He was also a prince. He was also prince, not ordinary man, and he was kṣatriya, and he was always enjoying with beautiful woman. That is the palace
gopī's service more gladly. Anayārādhyate. Ārādhyate. This ārādhate, this word, ārādhyate means worshiping. From this word ārādhyate, Rādhā has come. But Rādhā's name are there in other Purāṇas. So this is the origin. So Rādhā. So Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is the enjoyer, and He wants to enjoy. So He's the Supreme Brahman. He cannot enjoy anything, ātmarāma, He can enjoy it in Himself. Therefore Rādhārāṇī is the expansion of His pleasure potency. Kṛṣṇa hasn't got to seek external things for His pleasure. No. He is in Himself full, ātmarāma. So Rādhārāṇī is expansion of Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is the energetic, and Rādhārāṇī is the energy. Just like energy and energetic, you cannot separate. Fire and the heat you cannot separate. Wherever there is fire there is heat, and wherever there is heat there is fire. Similarly, wherever there is Kṛṣṇa there is Rādhā, and wherever there is Rādhā there is Kṛṣṇa. They are inseparable. But He is enjoying. So Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī has described this intricate philosophy of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa in one verse, very nice verse.     rādhā kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir hladinī-śaktir asmād     ekātmānāv api bhuvi purā deha-bhedaṁ gatau tau     (CC Adi 1.5) So Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa is the one Supreme, but in order to enjoy, They have divided into two. Again, Lord Caitanya joined the two into one. Caitanyākhyaṁ prakaṭam adhunā. That one means Kṛṣṇa in the ecstasy of Rādhā. Sometimes Kṛṣṇa is in ecstasy of Rādhā. Sometimes Rādhā is in ecstasy of Kṛṣṇa. This is going on. But the whole thing is Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa means the one, the Supreme. So Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa philosophy is a very great philosophy. It is to be understood in the liberated stage. Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa philosophy is not to be understood in the conditioned stage. But when we worship Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa in our conditional stage, actually we worship Lakṣmī- Nārāyaṇa. You have seen that picture, this viddhi-mārga and rāga- mārga. Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa worship is on the platform of pure love, and Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa worship is on the regulative principle.
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So long we do not develop our pure love, we have to worship on the regulative principle. One has to become a brahmacārī, one has to become a sannyāsī, one has to perform the worship in this way, in the morning he has to rise, he has to offer. So many rules and regulation. There are at least sixty-four rules and regulation. So we shall introduce them gradually as you develop. So in the viddhi-mārga, when you have no love for God, or Kṛṣṇa, we have to follow the regulative principle, and automatically..., they are practicing. When practicing, just like you practice this mṛdaṅga playing, in the beginning it is not in order, but when you become well versed in the practice, the sound will come so nice. Similarly, when we are engaged by regulative principles in the worship of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, that is called viddhi-mārga. And actually when you are on the love platform, then that is called rāga-mārga. So without viddhi-mārga, if anyone wants to learn the rāga-mārga  immediately, that is foolishness. That is foolishness. Nobody can pass M.A. examination without going through the regulative principles of primary schools and colleges. So therefore I do not, I mean to say, indulge in the discussions of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa so easily. Rather, go on with the regulative principle at the present moment. Gradually, as you become purified, as you become on the transcendental platform, you'll understand what is Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. Don't try to understand Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa very quickly. It is a very big subject. If we want to understand Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa very quickly, then there will be so many prākṛta-sahajiyā. In India there are prākṛta-sahajiyā. Just like Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa dancing. Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa has become a plaything. The painting Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa is kissing Rādhā, Rādhā is kissing. These are all nonsense. Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa philosophy has to be understood by the liberated person, not by the conditioned soul. So we shall await for the fortunate moment when we are liberated, then we shall understand rādhā-kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir (CC Adi 1.5). Because Kṛṣṇa and Rādhā, They are not on the material field. Try to understand. This is Jīva Gosvāmī's analysis, that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Brahman. The Supreme Brahman cannot accept anything material. So Rādhā is not in the material field.
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)     rādhe jaya jaya mādhava-dayite     gokula-taruṇī-maṇḍala-mahite     dāmodara-rati-vardhana-veśe     hari-niṣkuta-vṛndā-vipineśe     vṛṣabhānudadhi-nava-śaśi-lekhe     lalitā-sakhī guṇa-ramita-viśākhe     karuṇāṁ kuru mayi karuṇā-bharite     sanaka-sanātana-varṇita-carite     rādhe jaya jaya mādhava-dayite This song was sung by Rūpa Gosvāmī. He is the real person, actual person, to understand Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. So he says, "All glories to Rādhārāṇī." Rādhe jaya jaya mādhava-dayite. "She's so dear to Kṛṣṇa." Kṛṣṇa, everyone is trying to love Kṛṣṇa, but Kṛṣṇa is trying to love somebody. So how great She is. Just try to understand. Everyone, the whole world, the whole universe, all living entities, they are trying to love Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa-prema. Lord Caitanya describes, prema-pumārtho mahān. And Rūpa Gosvāmī described that "You are distributing kṛṣṇa-prema." So kṛṣṇa-prema is so valuable, but Kṛṣṇa is after Rādhārāṇī. Just see how Rādhārāṇī is great. Just try to understand the greatness of Rādhārāṇī. Therefore She is so great, and we have to offer our respect. 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... You'll find in Vṛndāvana, if you go to Vṛndāvana, everyone is
worshiping Rādhārāṇī. Rāṇī means queen. They are always speaking, "Jaya Rādhe!" Rādhārāṇī. All the devotees in Vṛndāvana, they are worshiper of Rādhārāṇī. Hari-niṣkuta-vṛndā-vipineśe. Vṛṣabhānudadhi-nava-śaśi-lekhe. And She appeared as the daughter of King Vṛṣabhānu, and Her companion, Lalitā-sakhī and Viśākha-sakhī, and the devotees. So on behalf of the pure devotees of Kṛṣṇa, Rūpa Gosvāmī is praying, karuṇāṁ kuru mayi karuṇā-bharite: "O my worshipable Rādhārāṇī, You are full of mercy. So I am begging of Your mercy because You are so merciful, very easily You offer, bestow Your mercy. So I am begging Your mercy." Karuṇāṁ kuru mayi karuṇā- bharite, sanaka-sanātana-varṇita-carite. Now somebody may say, "Oh, you are so great, learned scholar, you are so great saintly person, and you are begging mercy from an ordinary girl? How is that?" Therefore Rūpa Gosvāmī says, "Oh, this is not ordinary girl." Sanaka-sanātana-varṇita-carite: "This girl's description is possible to be made by great saintly person like Sanaka-Sanātana. She is not ordinary." So the lesson is that we should not treat Rādhārāṇī as ordinary girl or Kṛṣṇa as ordinary man. They are the Supreme Absolute Truth. But in the Absolute Truth, there is the pleasure potency, and that is exhibited in the dealings of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. And Rādhā's expansion all the gopīs, and Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Lord. Thank you very much. Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. You can chant? Can you chant? Janārdana? All right, you can chant. (Hindi) Indian man: (indistinct) Prabhupāda: What is that? No, I have explained that one śloka from this Rāma-carita-manasa. Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. (44:12) (kīrtana) (prema-dhvani) Thank you very much. (devotees offer obeisances) (short Hindi exchange with Indians) (cut) (end)
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Part 2
For the sake of brahma-suhka, transcendental happiness
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Many personalities give or gave everything up for achieving brahma-sukha: yogīs brahmacārīs sannyāsīs Ex. Bhārata Mahārāja Ex. Lord Bhuddha They gave up everything. They performed tapasya. Tapasya means voluntalrily accepting something severe for realizing the supreme pleasure.
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Kṛṣṇa’s enjoyment through His internal potency
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Part 4
Rādha-Kṛṣṇa and Lord Caitanya
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The loving affairs of Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are transcendental manifestations of the Lord’s internal pleasure-giving potency. Although Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are one in Their identity, previously They separated Themselves. Now these two transcendental identities have again united, in the form of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya. I bow down to Him, who has manifested Himself with the sentiment and complexion of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī although He is Kṛṣṇa Himself.
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Part 5
From basics to ultimate goal
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Basics of purification, purpose of yoga Bg 6.7 jitātmanaḥ praśāntasya paramātmā samāhitaḥ śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkheṣu tathā mānāpamānayoḥ For one who has conquered the mind, the Supersoul is already reached, for he has attained tranquillity. To such a man happiness and distress, heat and cold, honor and dishonor are all the same. Purport: Actually, every living entity is intended to abide by the dictation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is seated in everyone’s heart as Paramātmā. When the mind is misled by the external, illusory energy, one becomes entangled in material activities. Therefore, as soon as one’s mind is controlled through one of the yoga systems, one should be considered to have already reached the destination. One has to abide by superior dictation. When one’s mind is fixed on the superior nature, he has no alternative but to follow the dictation of the Supreme. The mind must admit some superior dictation and follow it. The effect of controlling the mind is that one automatically follows the dictation of the Paramātmā, or Supersoul. Because this transcendental position is at once achieved by one who is in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the devotee of the Lord is unaffected by the dualities of material existence, namely distress and happiness, cold and heat, etc. This state is practical samādhi, or absorption in the Supreme.
From Misled to Led by superior dictation
One many not see the link between daily devotional practice and the ultimate goal but there is a link.
Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa worship is on the platform of pure love, and Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa worship is on the regulative principle.
We have to go trough the basics first then gradually we’ll get where we should always have been, back to our original Krishna consciousness.
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NoD 19: Devotional Service in Pure Love of God When one's desire to love Kṛṣṇa in one's particular relationship becomes intensified, this is known as pure love of Godhead. In the beginning a devotee is engaged in the regulative principles of devotional service by the order of his spiritual master. When one thereby becomes completely purified of all material contamination, there develops an attachment and taste for devotional service. This taste and attachment, when gradually intensified in the course of time, becomes love. The word love can be actually applied only in relationship with the Personality of Godhead. In the material world, love is not applicable at all. What goes on under the name of love in the material world is nothing but lust. There is a gulf of difference between love and lust, like the difference between gold and iron. In the Nārada Pañcarātra it is clearly stated that when lust is completely transferred to the Supreme Godhead and the concept of kinship is completely reposed in Him, such is accepted as pure love of God by great authorities like Bhīṣma, Prahlāda, Uddhava and Nārada. Great authorities like Bhīṣma have explained that love of Godhead means completely giving up all so-called love for any other person. According to Bhīṣma, love means reposing one's affection completely upon one person, withdrawing all affinities for any other person.  This pure love can be transferred to the Supreme Personality of Godhead under two conditions—out of ecstasy and out of the causeless mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself.
Aspiring to be led to pure love of Godhead
We have to know what is pure love otherwise how will we be motivated to attain it?
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Part 6
Bhajan and explanations by Śrīla Prabhupāda in his lecture Rādhe jaya jaya mādhava dayite
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Radharani’s Blessings
“Actually, because Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, it is very  difficult to approach Him. But the devotees, taking advantage of His  compassionate nature, which is represented by Rādhārāṇī, always pray to  Rādhārāṇī for Kṛṣṇa's compassion.” (Nectar of Devotion, Chapter 22)
“My father was Vaiṣṇava. He was Vaiṣṇava, and he wanted me to become a Vaiṣṇava. Whenever some saintly person would come, he would ask him, ‘Please bless my son that he can become a servant of Rādhārāṇī.’ That was his prayer.”
(Srila Prabhupada Lecture, Dallas, March 3, 1975)
Hare Krishna