Radha
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Krishna's consort, invoked alongside him in Vaishnav practice; her name is used on amulets and in kavach texts.
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Which forms of Mahadeva do have bound mantras?
Mahamrityunjaya, Amriteshwara (a shared form with Bagalamukhi), Batuk Bhairav, the Neelakantha and Sadyojata core mantras, Mahaganapati, Aghora Bhairava, and Mahakala Bhairava all have bound mantras.
What scriptural authority establishes Shaiva-Shakta-Vaishnava unity?
The Devi Purana, compiled by Maharshi Vedavyasa, establishes that Shiva and Parvati manifest in unified divine forms, and that Shiva Himself manifested as Radha while Krishna and Supreme Divinity remain non-different — so creating a hierarchy between Shaiva, Shakta, and Vaishnava paths lacks scriptural foundation.
What kinship and manifestation relationships does the Shiv Puran and Devi Bhagavata describe among Saraswati, Krishna, and Radha?
The Markandeya Purana clarifies that the Saraswati who married Brahma is Shiva's younger sister, while a separate Saraswati manifested from Brahma's mind married Narayan; the Devi Bhagavata Mahapurana describes Bhagavati manifesting as Krishna, with Shiva manifesting in eight forms including Radha.
Tulsi bearing the names of Rama or Radha for Vaishnavas, Rudraksha for Shaivas and Shaktas
Vaishnava practitioners should use genuine Tulsi malas for Rama or Radha japa; Shaiva and Shakta practitioners should use authentic Rudraksha malas for the Panchakshari mantra or Devi mantras; gemstone malas can be consecrated with planetary, Tantric, or Kavacha mantras for specific benefits.
The tantrokta subjects of Radha stay closed to an intellect stuck at the level of naam mahima
Today, he says, look at the tantrokta subjects connected with Bhagavati Radha ji: the mahima of naam japa and the rest is endless, and to that extent it is running well. But if you go into her tantrokta subjects, when you learn about the ananya swaroops of Bhagavati — that yes, this is the original form, how and what it is in it — then somewhere or other there will not be the capacity to digest that thing. The cause, he says, is that our intellect has gone and got stuck at a different level.
In what bhava are Radha and Krishna held?
Some serve Shri ji, Bhagavati or Krishna in dasya bhava, some in sakha bhava; some hold Bhagavati in the bhava of a sakhi; some in the form of a son, giving the affection due to a son. In the same way, the speaker says, we serve them in the form of guru and hold them to be Mahakaul: that Radha Rani is Shiva himself in that swaroop, and Bhagavan Krishna is the swaroop of Bhagavati Parvati, the swaroop of Bhagavati. In that swaroop we hold them as Mahakaul — so for us they became our Gurudev and Guru Maa.
Is it right to send seekers between Shiva and Radha-Krishna?
From now on, he says, no feeling will arise in your mind that Shri Krishna and Radha Rani are superior, or that Bhagavan Shiva is superior. And as for those who hear the katha that Shiva sends whomever he is pleased with to the feet of Radha Rani or Krishna, and that Krishna and Radha, when pleased, send people back this way — why do these people send them here and there? Because Krishna is dearest to Shiva, and Shiva is dearest to Krishna. In the swaroop of Radha Rani it is said that half of the heart is Radha Rani and half of the heart is Krishna, who is Bhagavan Shiva. This whole matter, he says, should be understood in this manner.
What is prescribed for Krishna and for Radharani?
For Bhagavan Shri Krishna, the speaker says, Krishna ji's sahasranama, the Gopal Sahasranama, is exceedingly excellent, exceedingly wonderful. For Bhagavati Radharani, do what you can: do the paath of the Radha Ashtak, do the paath of the Radha kavach.
A disciple reported that Avadhoot Shivanand ji Maharaj is saying that Radha does not exist
Speaking of Avadhoot Shivanand ji Maharaj, who at one time was very much in discussion over Shri Vidya, the speaker says that today it was said by some disciple of his — and had been said before too — that Avadhoot Shivanand Maharaj is saying that Radha does not exist, that Radha does not exist at all, and that they are singing hallelujah.
Can a divine shakti attach herself to a sadhak during a great anushthan?
The speaker says that when a human performs a very large anushthan — as they had just performed a Nauchandi anushthan on Govardhan Parvat, amid the cows, at the place of Shri Krishna — a divine shakti of that region may become pleased and wish to accompany that sadhak, to be worshipped by him and to do the work of jan-kalyan with him.
A mentality shaped by prarabdha makes one see only abhichaar even while living where Narayan walks in every lane.
Consider Vrindavan, he says, where Narayan walks in every lane, where Radharani's form is held to be in every particle of the dust, whose every grain has so great a mahima sung of it. Living there, you think only that after 84 Khambha your health went bad and that it is the effect of abhichaar tantra. That, he says, is somewhere your own prarabdha having made your mentality such that you cannot come out of it. Motivate yourself a little and see where you are standing.
Keep each deity to the rite made for them — the speaker rejects the Rudrabhishek done in Radha's name
Doing a deity's rite in another deity's name — he cites videos telling people to perform the Rudrabhishek in Savan taking Bhagavati Radha's name in place of Shiva's. Please avoid these things, he says; let what was made for which deity remain limited to them.
The child made Bal Mukund at Janmashtami is made a joker on 25 December
There is no discussion of Krishna and Balaram at all, he says. When Janmashtami comes, all the boys are made Bal Mukund and the girls are made Radha ji, and that is that. Then 25 December comes, and on that day the same child who had been made Krishna becomes the Santa uncle, a joker. Can Krishna ever become a joker, he asks — the very child you make Bhagavan Shri Krishna you then make a joker again.
Ramakrishna Paramhansa in his cancer, and the Vaishnav displays of bhav
He speaks of Ramakrishna Paramhansa, who when he had cancer, in that state of cancer, was exceedingly surrendered to Bhagavati — as, he says, we now see some bhakta on YouTube, Krishna ji's bhaktas especially, Vaishnav people, who show such things a great deal: becoming utterly overcome with bhav, doing bhajan-kirtan and falling unconscious, singing, and the whole video going viral. They do bhakti of this kind, that they are Krishna conscious, that they are great servants of Bhagavati Radha, and so display their bhav so much.
Why does a rakshasa turn asuric after gaining power?
The speaker says he has always said that rakshasas live by much vidhi and niyam until samarthya is obtained, and that after samarthya and the boon are obtained they assume their asuric nature. They are cursed, and a curse must have its effect on them.
Krishna kavach as the first siddhi for a Krishna bhakta
The speaker says that whoever does ananya bhakti of Bhagavan Shri Krishna, wants the madhurya swaroop and kripa of Bhagavati Radha and Bhagavan Krishna, or wants to take up Krishna-related mantras on the sadhana marga and tantra marga, should first of all perfect the kavach of Bhagavan Shri Krishna. If the kavach is made siddh at the time of Shri Krishna Janmashtami, he says, then whenever it is used afterwards — even if it is merely remembered — protection is certainly obtained through Bhagavan Shri Krishna. Those who do seva and puja of Krishna and Radha should certainly perfect it.
Seven-day Janmashtami anushthan for siddhi of the Krishna kavach
The speaker gives a roughly seven-day anushthan run from the Dwitiya of the Krishna Paksha of Bhadrapada up to the Navami after Janmashtami. Only the kavach mula — shlokas one to eight, without purva pithika and phalashruti — is written on a white bhojpatra in gopi chandan, or in ashtagandha ink mixed with kesar and gorochan using a silver, white-chandan or red-chandan pen, or at the least a tulsi pen, in very small letters. It is placed at Krishna's feet and 108 paths are done daily for seven days, with as many as possible on the Janmashtami night so that 1100 paths are completed. The bhojpatra then goes into a silver khol bearing Krishna's form, his names or Radha's name; on the day after Janmashtami a havan is done with Krishna's 108 names or the sahasranama (men with plain ghee, women with mixed paushtik havan samagri), makhan mishri and the like is fed to at least five small boys and to small girls, and the kavach is worn on the neck — best placed on the neck or arm by the hand of an innocent child of up to five or seven years. Worn thus, he says, it is said the Sudarshan Chakra and the gopis protect the wearer wherever he goes.
Japa of the Krishna kavach on tirtha yatra
The speaker says that whenever one goes on yatra to Shrimad Dham Vrindavan, Golok, Mathura and the like, to any swaroop of Bhagavan Narayan such as Gaya ji, to any of the puris — the Saptapuri — or to Ganga ji, Yamuna ji, the Triveni Sangam and the rest, then while wearing this kavach one should certainly do as much japa of it there as possible, even while walking about. The effect of the kavach, he says, increases greatly. Remaining lifelong in its shelter, one can obtain the kripa of Bhagavan Krishna and Bhagavati Radha.
A speaker carried Bhagavati Sita's form away and merged it into Bhagavati Radha ji, and a listener sent the video reporting the bhaav it disturbed
A person, he says, presented Bhagavati Sita — that form of Jagadamba — and carried it away, merging it into Bhagavati Radha ji, saying that it is Bhagavati Radha ji's form. A listener sent him the whole video and said that now a bhaav is arising in his mind about what to do at home; those devoted to Shri Ramchandra ji and Sita, whose kul devata is Ram himself, now think they should also install and worship that other form. Your buddhi, he tells them, is being confused by the Mundis.
Are Sita, Radha and Lakshmi one at the root?
Why are you not thinking, he asks, that the root is the same? Whether it be Bhagavati Sita, or Bhagavati Radha, or Bhagavati Lakshmi — is it not the same? They are the companion of Narayan, they are his shakti. He says he does not understand why that form is being extolled in this roundabout way, nor what is being sought to be proved.
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