Radhe Shyam

 

Listen friend, in a world of illusions, this is real!

The soft blue light of Krishna that illuminates your mind in deep meditation is Shyama Sundara, the personal yet boundless inner sky of pure Beauty, whose nature is love and whose body is your own Consciousness.

When the mind is completely still and empty, the heart awakens. Then a rose-gold radiance infuses the divine expanse,and this is Shri Radha, emanating from an infinitesimal bindhu in your chest. She is the very substance of your yearning. Yet yearning for God IS God, just as a beam of dawn is one with the sun.

When the violet flame of Krishna and the rose-gold beam of Radha unite in your heart, they form a jewel, a crystal chuppa, which is what the early Christian Gnostics called "the Bridal Chamber." The Sacrament of the Bridal Chamber is the wedding of Christ and Magdalene, Krishna and Radha inside you. This is an interior union of the solar and lunar energies in the spinal Tree of Life. Imagining that Jesus and Mary, or Krishna and Radha, were married as historical husband and wife is a popular meme that only distracts us from our inner work: building a fifth dimensional body of glory, a temple of Divine Love. 

We need not visualize or focus on the forms of Krishna and Radha, Christ and Mary. Artists may portray them any way they like, but we will eventually transcend attachment to these external forms and find liberation in the blue sky of Awareness itself, scintillating with rose-gold beams of devotion. These beams of devotion become the actual crystalline structures of our DNA. And this is what is meant by "the resurrection body," not something that happens after we are dead.

The energy of Radha-Krishna is pure consciousness solidified, Christalized into a diamond of Self-delight, as awareness turns to adore its own essence, thus generating two out of One: Lover and Beloved. 

Their beauty is not composed of any thought, emotion, memory, or belief, which are cloud-like and fleeting abstractions arising and dissolving in the sky of awareness. Radha-Krishna energy is more concrete than any form, any content, any perception in the mind or the senses. Radha-Krishna energy is solid as a diamond, compared to whose adamant luster the so-called "physical" world is a passing mist of shadows.

Therefore, do not let either the intellectuals or the sensualists distract you. Cherish and cultivate your inner glory with regular meditation. Store up treasures of heaven in your chest, "where moth and rust cannot destroy, and thieves cannot break in and steal" (Matthew 6:20). The doorway to the Holy of Holies is the humble pointless no-thing at the tip of your sternum, between breathing out and breathing in. It may first seem to last but an instant, yet this Ayin Soph expands into fertile and eternal space - the divine darkness that sparkled in the Boundless before God said, "Let there be light." This is the moonlit Garden of Vrindavan, where the Lover ceaselessly courts the Beloved, and bursting flowers, universe upon universe, are fragrant with the bliss of the Unmanifest.  

There is no earth more voluptuous, no heaven more real, than the dancing waves in the ocean of silence within your heart.

Painting: by the Indian "Kota Master," in Brittanica