Dear smaranam was better
Thanks for your elaborate explanation.
This was always my automatic understanding by experience and as a general Hindu thought. Meera (Hema Malini in the movie) said to the Temple Pujari "
Ya to use Meera kaho ya muze Radha, muze uski sautan mat banao." (Either call Her Meera or call me Radha)
and the pujari started laughing saying "who can question love ?"
There is Him and insignificant me. Then by His mercy i stumbled upon this wonderful Gaudiya VaishNav theology and its follower devotees...
Prolonged laughter. What do you want ? Just You. But you already have Me. That is right, i guess i will have to burn all these guNa-karma - bad habit of running around the internet digging into GV theology, other VaishNav philosophies, other philosophies, then come back to the nest, haven, heaven, You.
I thought it had stopped, but apparently not, despite all His mercy, as see how i started this thread ? Well,
i can tell myself it was for like-minded sakhis, God-sisters (and God-brothers who are actually soul-sisters). Actually, since we have a GV scholar here, it was a very good opportunity to ask him. PrashNena, always.
VaishNavs reject sayujja with Bhagvan. Shuddha Advaita/Pushti Marg also does not see the point. It is not so simple. For GVs Radha is KrushNa, so they use that transitive property and indirectly it is Sayujja. I think the bigger concern is devotees prematurely calling themselves Yashoda Nanda Devaki Lalita Vishakha and so on. Plus, you will hear arguments like Radha is Hladini shakti and we are [eternally] tatastha shakti - which i suppose is fine as tatastha shakti can be "in the mood of" Radha as long as she is not surfing the internet.
Jai Shri KrushNa ~
praNAm
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