The 16 names of Shri Radha-Krishna

Shri Krishna Puja reference : 18 August 1984

Many rakshasas and He used His samhara shakti, His killing powers, and His destroying powers to achieve that Simultaneously at that time He was doing Sahaja Yoga with the gopa and the gopis in the way it was just a play, a leela. “Ra Dha. “Ra” is energy and “dha” means the one who has sustained it. She’s the sustainer of that energy. Radha. And She would go and have a bath in the river Yamuna and the ladies would go and fill up their pitchers with that water, vibrated water, and He used to break that pitcher, at the back, from the back with stones, little stones, and make a hole in it just like we make a hole here, He used to make a hole in the pitcher and that vibrated water used to flow down on the back of the gopis to give them awakening.

Ra” is again energy and “sa” means with. He used to play with them. He used to climb up into a pyramid-like structure made out of them and would break another pitcher which was filled with butter and butter milk and they all would eat it. Beautiful stories about his Mother and He, how they played together. On one side it’s a very beautiful, sweet, madhurya, as they call it. On the other side is the killing of the rakshasas.

So the main principle of Krishna was collectivity – Raasa – everybody one with the energy; energy circulates through everyone, and just the opposite that the country developed into individualism and everything was to create something that collective was not. Individualism, when it is not connected to the mains, is destruction.

Like all these trees you see, they are individuals as you see them separate, but inside they are fed by the same mother. They have the same sap running in them. When this connection is broken, then all this individualism is nothing but destruction and that’s how in America the connection with the collectivity was broken by every sort of funny methods that one cannot conceive how human beings can go to that level.

A stories of Radha and Shri Krishna

Such beautiful stories, of Radha and Krishna also, such beautiful stories. Not like modern romances that on the street you can’t walk, they’re all kissing each other and if you ask them where are they going, they are going to a divorce case. Such a show of that and so many divorces.

What’s the use of such a show of love? And Radha’s and Krishna’s love is so beautifully expressed is one of the stories was that Radha was His power on the spiritual and He went as Vitthala to Dwarika and He had His five elements on the right side, He moved on the right side and Radha stayed in Vrindavan.

So these five wives were a little bit teased by Narada who always used to create problems. And he said that “Oh, Krishna doesn’t love you, He only loves Radha, He doesn’t love you, you know? You are just there, five wives.”

So they went and told Shri Krishna, “You don’t love us.” And 16,000 He had, other wives who were His powers. 16,000 powers He had. So they all came and said, “You don’t love us. You only love Radha, we have come to know about it.”

He said, “Really? It is so? You believe it? Oh God, I’ve got a terrible pain in the stomach, hearing all this.” And He started rolling, you see, all drama. “I’ve got a terrible pain, how am I going to get cured now?”

They said, “Now You are the One Who is a Dhanvantri, You are the One Who is a, Who is the doctor, you tell us. Divine Doctor, tell us how to cure You.”

“Only way that you have to give the dust of your feet for Me to drink.” So they got a fright. They said, “Look at Him, very clever, He loves Radha and now He wants us to give Him the dust of our feet. So it’s most inauspicious to give the dust of our feet for a God to drink. It’s too much, how can we do it? He’s playing tricks with us. No, no, no, nothing doing. We’re not going to do this. Better have your pain. You are just joking with us.”

So Narada was there, he said, “Really? Is that the way?”

He said, “Yes. Now you go and ask Radha.”

So he went to Radha and said, “Krishna is having a bad time, He’s got a very bad pain in the stomach and He says any one of My people if they give Me the dust of their feet to drink, I’ll be all right.”

So Radha said, “Yes, it’s all right. You take.” She took out from Her feet Her dust and gave it to him.” He was amazed. The dust was yellow colored because Vrindavan has yellow colored dust. She said, “Take it to Shri Krishna.”

He said, “Aren’t you afraid that you are doing a sin?”

She said, “I’m not because it is Who, He who does everything. Why should I worry about Him? He does everything for Me. Why should I worry?” Narada was quite surprised. He didn’t understand Her so he took down the dust to Dwarika and gave to Shri Krishna and Shri Krishna still was rolling. “Oh, She has given. Oh, I knew She will be giving.” So everybody was surprised, you know. He took that dust and gave drank it. `”Ah, now I’m all right.”

So Narada asked Him, “I didn’t understand.”

She said, “Everything He does.”

“What do You mean?

“If She commits sins, that also You do.”

He said, “Watch in My heart.” What he sees Radha is in His heart and in the lotus of His heart She’s sitting on the lotus and Her feet are touching the pollen of His lotus and that pollen is the same yellow dust. So when She can be in His heart, Her feet is touching the pollen of the lotus of His heart, what is there a sin for Her now anymore left? She’s sitting in His heart. Such a beautiful relationship.

The 16 names of Shri Radha and Krishna

Aum twameva sakshat Shri Radhā-Kṛishna sakshāt
Shri Aadi Shakti Mataji Shri Nirmala Devyai namo namah