An image or idol is made of a particular material. It is made of iron, wood, clay, stone, gold, silver, etc. But what is there in the image? The material which is used to make an image is both inside and outside that image. For example, if an image is cut in stone, it is stone alone inside and outside that idol. No other material is mixed in it. Like in a stone image, iron or wood will not be mixed. In an image cut in stone, everywhere, inside and outside, on top and bottom there will be stone and stone alone. Its hands, its feet, its mouth, its nose, its ears, its eyes are all made of stone. That is why it is called an image.
All the different parts of a human body are made from different elements - earth, water, fire, air, ether and somewhere inside God's divinity is also lying. In the case of an image, it i made of a single material. So both outside and inside Radha Rani, only Radha Rani is there both in soul is not different from the body. Both the soul and the body of Radha Rani are sat, chit and ananda (Existence-Knowledge-Bliss).
Your body is composed of the five elements. But inside your body it is you, the individual soul which is divine, part of God. This is the difference. So when what lies inside, has left the body, it starts decomposing, decaying and people burn it down. Why do people set fire to their own father, mother, son, husband, etc.? It is because what was earlier staying inside has left it. In the case of all human beings, the body is different from the soul. They are two different entities. But in the case of Radha Rani, both the body and the soul are composed of the same element that is sat, chit and ananda. So sat-chit-ananda personified is Radha Rani’s inner self and so is Her external body.
dehadehibhida chaiva neshvare vidyate kvachit
(Padma Puran)
There is no difference between the outer body and the inner thing, that’s why it is an image. Just as in a stone image it is the only thing both inside and outside. Same is the case with Radha Rani, who is Grace Personified, which means She is grace inside and grace outside. She cannot be anything but kind and gracious.
Just think how lucky we are! We may be kind to others, or we may hurt them. We may kill others, or we may be indifferent to them. But Radha Rani only showers grace on us. She has to. She cannot help it. If she says she doesn’t want to, she has to be kind and graceious. She has no other way.
So, Radha Rani is the Embodiment of Grace. She has only grace both inside and outside. She is not required to do anything. Why should she? Is there anything that she has yet to achieve? If somebody does something, the purpose is to achieve something. But if there is nothing left for one to achieve, why should one do anything? This is the case with Radha Rani, Thakur Ji and the saints. There is nothing achievable for Them. Therefore, there is no question of Their doing any work. But still They do to make others prosperous, to give them the supreme bliss, to remove their ignorance, to get them detached from the materialistic world and turn their attachment towards Them. In short, Their aim is to only grace, grace and grace.....
My Radha is the greatest treasure of my life. Beloved Radha is an unfathomable ocean of beauty and Divine love. Without Radha,
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