Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmrita Ādi 4.71

krishna-prema-bhāvita yāńra cittendriya-kāya

krishna-nija-śakti rādhā krīdāra sahāya

SYNONYMS

krishna-prema — love for Lord Krishna; bhāvita — steeped in; yāńra — whose; citta — mind; indriya — senses; kāya — body; krishna — of Lord Krishna; nija-śakti — His own energy; rādhā — Śrīmatī Rādhārānī; krīdāra — of pastimes; sahāya — companion.

TRANSLATION

Her mind, senses and body are steeped in love for Krishna. She is Krishna's own energy, and She helps Him in His pastimes.

PURPORT

Śrīmatī Rādhārānī is as fully spiritual as Krishna. No one should consider Her to be material. She is definitely not like the conditioned souls, who have material bodies, gross and subtle, covered by material senses. She is all-spiritual, and both Her body and Her mind are of the same spiritual embodiment. Because Her body is spiritual, Her senses are also spiritual. Thus Her body, mind and senses fully shine in love of Krishna. She is the personified hlādinī-śakti (the pleasure-giving energy of the Lord's internal potency), and therefore She is the only source of enjoyment for Śrī Krishna.

Śrī Krishna cannot enjoy anything that is internally different from Him. Therefore Rādhā and Śrī Krishna are identical. The sandhinī portion of Śrī Krishna's internal potency has manifested the all-attractive form of Śrī Krishna, and the same internal potency, in the hlādinī feature, has presented Śrīmatī Rādhārānī, who is the attraction for the all-attractive. No one can match Śrīmatī Rādhārānī in the transcendental pastimes of Śrī Krishna.

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