Radha’s Prem -Sivanand 34

Radha’s Prem -Swami Sivananda

Scene 3

Act 1

The nine modes of Bhakti Are graded series of Divine Love. Atmanivedan is highest love. This is Madhurya Bhava. (This is Para Bhakti.) In this the Heart is the Real Flower That is offered to the Lord Two have become now one. Oneness is the Reality. (Parabhakti is Jnana; This is Sayujya Mukti.) (Rama Hare Shiya Rama Ram.) Now listen. The most practical way of developing selfless love for Lord Krishna is to adorn His Image with sweet-smelling flowers, apply sandal-paste, incense and offer eatables and fruits, sing His glories, repeat His Name at all times and to do prostrations before His Image and feel love for all men and objects which remind one of Krishna. You should be regular in this practice until the sound of the Name of Lord Krishna, whether uttered by you or by any other brings out an effusion of joy as soon as you say or hear it. Repetition of His Name alone will take you to the very portals of the abode of God. This is the safest, easiest, surest, quickest, cheapest and best way for God-realisation in this Kaliyuga. The Lord will play with you, eat butter and sugar-candy from your hands and drink butter-milk from your cup. The joy that Bhaktas derive from this state is beyond description. Only Bhaktas like Namadev, Mira, Chaitanya Maha Prabhu and Radha know this, feel this and realise this. Bhaktas find satisfaction only in repeating His Name and they dance with Him in ecstasy. May the Lord grant you all, proper understanding and a pure and subtle intellect to understand these matters in their true perspective.