Shree Kripaluji Maharaj teaches us to love both Radha and Krishna. However, whatever our internal nature may be, more towards Radha, or more towards Krishna, or equally towards both, that’s our own devotion, that’s the flavor of our devotion. That’s fine. But within that, we have to understand that both are One. Both worship each other.
कृष्णेन आराध्यते इति राधा I
Krishnen aradhyate iti Radha.- Radhikopanishad
Radha’s name has two meanings. One is the one who is worshipped by Supreme Brahm (the Supreme Absolute Truth), Shree Krishna, and in the words of Shree Krishna,
…राधैवाराध्यते मया I
…Rādhaivārādhyate mayā 8- Radha Stotram
“I worship only Radha.”
But Radha’s name also means,
अनयाराधितो नूनं भगवान् हरिरीश्वर: ।
Anayārādhito nūnaṁ bhagavān harirīśhvaraḥ.- Bhagwatam 10.30.28
“Radha is the one who worships Shree Krishna.”
So Radha means the one who worships Krishna, and Radha means the one who is worshipped by Shree Krishna.
That Radharani (the Divine Queen Radha) and Shree Krishna both descended on Earth. They descend many times, over and over again; They take avatar (Divine descension).
However, it doesn’t happen as often as you would think. Radha Krishna visited our earth planet once in a day of Brahma (the cosmic creator). A kalpa (a day of Brahma) is 4.32 billion years. Brahma’s one day. When you include his night, which comes before his next day, it’s 8.64 billion years between each avatar of Radha and Krishna. So, taking that into account, Their most recent descension is very recent. It’s only 5,000 years ago. Shree Krishna descended in 3228 BCE, and Radharani came, in this avatar; She came one year before Him, in 3229 BCE.
Every time They come, there are slight differences. Sometimes Shree Krishna may come first, sometimes Radharani may come first. In this case, Radha came first. She appeared in the village of Barsana (the Divine abode of Radha on Earth). And the God-realized Saints, King Vrishabhanu and Queen Kirti, got to have Her as their daughter.
Although She is the mother of the whole universe. Just like Shree Krishna is the father of the whole universe, when They take avatar, two lucky Saints, or in the case of Shree Krishna, four lucky Saints, two mothers, two fathers, get to become Their parents.
