111 - Conversation between Radha and Yashoda

Radhika said- O chaste lady, lord Krishna is the form of knowledge and is adorable by Brahma, Shiva and Ananta; he instead of imparting the knowledge himself has directed you to me. By this, I am able to understand his feelings about me. Even the Vedas and the ascetics are unable to judge truly, his ideas.

I belong to the class of woman who are considered to be weak, devoid of wisdom and deprived of knowledge. Because of the separation from him, my knowledge has faded out. In such a condition what could I speak about the five types of knowledge. Still the devotion happens to be the best of knowledge which is being narrated by me. You please listen to the same.

O virtuous lady, don't become fearless because of the boon of Krishna because even an ascetic has to fall from Goloka.

Therefore, disowning everything, you recite the name of the lord. Discarding the feeling of his being the son you, take him to be the eternal Brahman.

O Yashoda, you, after discarding all the perishable articles, go to Vrundavana situated on the auspicious land of Bharata.

Taking bath in the spotless clean water of the Yamuna thrice a day, you prepare an eight pettaled lotus, with a devoted mind, adore blissful lord Krishna variously and get absorbed in the blissful stage ultimately.

O chaste lady, you better uproot all the deeds performed earlier with hundred means and always converse with the Vaishnavas.

A devotee accepts the flames; of fire, captivity in a cage, leaving among the thorns end consuming the poison but he fails to keep company of the people devoid of the devotion of lord Hari because the same deeds to destruction. A person who is devoid of devotion, not only destroys himself but simultaneously create differentiation.

By keeping the company of a devotee, with the reciting of the story of lord Hari, the tree of devotion sprouts with the nectar-like stories. But by conversing with the people devoid of devotion, serves as the burning flame, the sprouting tree is dried up. Only by the serving the lord or reciting of his stories lord, it develops and sprouts.

The company of the non-believer should be left in the same way, as a person runs away in panic at the sight of a terrible snake.

O Yashoda, you must adore your son with great efforts, like a lord. The one who recites the name of Rama, Narayana, Ananta, Mukunda, Madhusudhana, Krishna, Kes'hava, Kamshari, Hari, Vaikuntha and Vamana or the one who reads these eight names daily, he is freed from the thousands and crores of sins of the previous births. Ra stands for globe and Ma stands for the lord. Thus the one who is the lord of the globe is called Rama. He enjoys the company of Rama, that is why he is also called Rama.

Since Rama happens to be the cause of the knowledge of Ramatattva and the place of keeping company with Rama, he is also called Rama. Even otherwise Ra stands for Lakshmi and Ma stands for the lord. Therefore, the intellectuals call the lord of Lakshmi as Rama; the merit one earns by reciting thousands of the divine names the same is achieved by reciting the name of Rama only once.

The intellectuals believe that Nara stands for Sarupya salvation. Therefore, the one who happens to be the god of the same or the Ayana is called Narayana. The sins which are committed by some one are known as Nara and Ayana stands for disappearing. This with the reciting of the name of NarSyana, all the sins disappear. With the reciting of the word Narayana once, a person achieves the merit of having a bath in all the sacred places for a hrmdred kalpas. According to another interpretation Ndra stands for merit and tnoksa while the Ayana stands for tl\e appropriate knowledge. The one who therefore, enshrines the knowledge of both, he is considered to be Narayana. The one who beyond the description of the four Vedas, Purapas, scriptures and others literature and is unlimited, he is called Ananta by the intellectuals. Muku stands for studies and salvation beside moksha and the one who provides the same, is known as Mukunda. Even otherwise, the word Muku stands for love and devotion as prescribed in the Vedas and the one who bestows the same to the devotees is called Mukunda. Because he happens to be the killer of the demon Madhu, he is therefore called Madhusudhana.

Even otherwise the people derive meaning from the word Madhu which is a neutral gender and is present in the good or bad deeds or a wine of intoxicated tree. Therefore, the one who destroys the same together with the deeds of the devotees, he is called MadhusQdana. Such of the deeds which results in evil reward and are sweet in fallacy, they are termed as Madhu. The one who destroys the same he is called MadhusQdana. The word Krsi stands for excellence and ^a stands for the noble devotion and A stands for the container. That is why people call him by the name of Kf§na. According to another interpretation Krsi stands for blissM and na stands for the slavehood. The on who provides both of them is called Kysna. Even otherwise the word Kr^i stands for the sin earned during the crores of the births and (la stands for the reliever of the sins. This results in the making of the word Krishna. The merit one earns by reciting the thousand divine names of the lord thrice, the same merit is earned by him while reciting the name of Krishna. There has been no name better than Krishna in the past nor would it be in future.

you? Therefore, you adore your son who is lodged in the centre of the lotus flowers in the form of the lord and adore him with devotion, meditation, recitation, making all the efforts. You would meet with welfare. You ask for a boon, desired by you. The one which is beyond a reach of the gods his adoration would surely be bestowed by me to you. Yashoda said- I desire a boon to achieve the infallible devotion at the feet of lord Hari and his slavehood. You also enlighten me about the root of your own name.

Radhika said- with my boon you would surely achieve the devotion of the lord besides his slavehood. Now I tell you the best of the decision.

In the earlier times Nanda found me in the Bhandira forest seated under the shed of a banyan tree, I stopped Prajapati Nanda and said to him, “I am Radha myself and by reflection the wife of Rayana. Rayana was born of the amsha of Hari and happens to be one of the important courtiers of lord Hari.

The word Ra stands for Mahavishnu in the hair- pits of whom several globes are lodged and dha stand for the motherhood among the creatures.

I being the Mulaprakruti and Ishvari, I am the mother of all of them. This is the reason why Hari and other people gave me the name of Radha in the earlier times.

I have become the daughter of Vrushabhana because of the curse of Sridama; now I shall be separated from lord Hari for a hundred years.

Vrushabhana happens to be the best of the courtiers of the Krishna and parson my mother named Kalavati is the mind born daughter of the ancestors.

In the land of Bharata, both myself and my mother are born without human contact I shall move to the abode of Hari together with you. O queen of Vraja, I have thus spoken out to you all the things. O chaste lady, now you move back to Vraja together with your husband who is the lord of Vraja.

Currently you are obstructing my meditation. O beautiful one, a person earns sins by disturbing medication.