The moment anyone think of Krishna, immediately Radha comes to the mind. Krishna's had eight wives but none of them comes to our mind. Their names are also not popular but only Radha's because of her "Un-Conditional Love". If we cannot grasp the concept of "unconditional Love" , it is easy to mis-understand Radhakrishna's  love as illegitimate affair.    

              "Love" is "Un-Conditional" and is opposed by Ego, which seeks only conditional relation. In Romantic "Love" there are no conditions, a person is accepted as the person is. This is real "Love".  Rest of the love, that we think as love is not love, it is only a "business" relationship. We get something for paying for it. A husband and wife in Romantic love, accepts the person as he or she is and looks beyond the body and mind and transcends to the pure Awareness state. In such a state the "Love making" they enjoy is also blissful. In Bharath, "Radha and Krishna"  is considered as the model of un-conditional Romantic Love.

Radha was just soaked in un-conditional love, that she did not even ask Krishna to marry her and take to his place. Krishna had eight wives and it was easy to have Radha as  one more wife.  But Radha's love is unconditional that it was beyond  space (his form) and time (be with him). There are several stories in Bhagavatham elaborating her Unconditional love.   Marriage is a phase in life to practice and experience Un-Conditional Love.

Only in unconditional love, can the couple unite to divinity which means to Consciousness state. If one wants to understand the deepest meaning for transcending  "Conditions" for God-realization is because , Consciousness is Unconditional,  and we exists as Awareness which is nothing but un-conditional Consciousness conditioned in space and time.

Through conditional love we experience short transient happiness and through Unconditional love one experience eternal "Bliss" , this is what is symbolized as Radha-Krishna.

This is what Radha achieved in her life and with that she has become immortal golden words in the Book of Love. We celebrate the symbolism of their love as the colorful Holi festival. 
 

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