There are various emotions (bhavas) for Bhakti; e.g. one can worship Krsna as a son, or as a father, or as a lover etc.
To me Rukmini seems as if She is my sister. I feel so much brotherly attached to Her that whosoever plays Her character, in TV serials, also seem sisters to me.
Similar feeling is there in me for other consorts of Krsna; I call them: Laxmi Di, Sita Di, Radha Di, Tulsi Di & so on. This may be because I don't have a sister.
Though I love Krsna too, but due to the pains some of my these sisters suffered, I feel wrath towards Him too. He broke up with Radha Di, He made Sita Di to leave when She was pregnant; & worst of all, He broke Tulsi (Vrinda) Di's chastity.
However, my question is not about them or my feelings.
My question is: In our scriptures beauty of many relations, towards Lord have been described; e.g. mother-son (Yasoda Ma & Krsna, Kausalya & Rama), brothers (Rama-Laxmana, Krsna-Balrama), friends (Krsna-Sudama), father-son (Dasaratha-Rama), lovers (Radha Di- Krsna). But why no example of brother-sister love is seen? Why Lord doesn't have a sister, whenever He incarnate?
I believe, Lord Krsna has a sister; called Yogamaya. We worship Her as Goddess Durga. I believe She is the same Who took the form of Goddess Ekadasi & protected Him from a demon who was about to slay Lord while He was asleep. In 2nd chapter of "Durga Saptashati" Lord could slay Madhu & Kaitabha only when the Goddess permitted Him to do so.
In "Bhagvad Gita" two female potencies have been said: 1) Yogamaya 2) Prakriti. Lord used the phrase "under control" for Prakriti, but He everywhere used "My" for Yogamaya. I believe, this may be because Goddess Yogamaya or Durga is, more or less, equal to Lord. She veils Lord, thus protects Him. And as seen in "Durga-Saptshati" & in Ekadasi story she, sometimes, take control & carry out Lord's job.
Goddess Yogamaya took birth from Yasoda's womb at Gokul, at the same time when Krsna took birth from Devki's at Mathura. But Her role has been told too briefly in scripture, only to warn Kamsa. Already there were many warners to Kamsa. Then Why she took birth at all?
I believe, there was much more significance & purpose to this. She could take birth to Devki as a twin to Krsna; then why at Gokul? I think, may be, to protect Krsna there.
My another question is: Why Krsna's Sister appeared for such a brief period? Why She doesn't have pastime in our scriptures, like Lord has?
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The Absolute truth is that Lord Krishna do not have a brother, sister, mother, father,..all living beings are just His parts and parcels.
Only because of illusion and ignorance, conditioned souls identify with material body and its relations, but actually such temporary material relations do not have anything to do with transcendental reality.
Ordinary people see Lord past times as their own, and His relations with others, as their own relations, such people are blind and remain in darkness until start learning from qualified Brahmanas.
Unfortunately in present stage of Kali Yuga there is no qualified Brahmanas or teachers, that why human society became like society of donkeys, dogs and cats.
Hare krishna Dean Prabhu,
Krishna is sach-chit-ananda-vigrha , Vighra means he is a Person .And everyone ,every soul has a Eternal Relationship with Krishna . When we Revive it we Establish our Relationship with Krishna ,be it in awe and reverence, servant,Friend,Parent or Lover . Do not Promote the Impersonal Featute of Krishna which is Inferior to the Personal Feature which has chances to fall back into the Material World again and the Happiness Of the Impersonal Brahman is Faar Less and not Comparable than the Happiness in Vaikunt & Goloka Vrindavan Planets .
SB 1.2.11 — Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth call this nondual substance Brahman, Paramātmā or Bhagavān.
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All thiese three single aspects contains the qualities of all three at the same time, but those who purposely denying that, do not know Absolute Truth as it is. Such deniers are called mayavadis.
One mayavadis deny Bhagavan, another mayavadis deny Brahman to be Absolute Truth, therefore they are both in maya.
Hare Krsna Prabhuji,
PAMHO.
SO this is a first for me - someone considers the energy of the lord as sister and the lord as jijaji.
Incidentally, lord has a sister - Subhadra, wife of Arjuna, mother of Abhimanyu. She is the daughter of Devaki. She is between Baladeva and Jagannath in the Ratha Yatra. Some say she is yogamaya, some say she is sadhana siddha jiva.
Yogamaya is a form of Radharani, as is Mahamaya, Durga devi. They both work in subordination to the lord, as per the desire of the lord.
Haribol,
YOur servant,
Radha Rasamayi DD
Hare Krsna,
Thanks for the reply.
To me Lord's sister Yogamaya & Lord's consorts Radha Di, Sita Di, etc. seem different potencies. As the name suggests & as described in scriptures, Yogmaya is the veil over the Lord. She is also the delusive energy, as per Gita as well as Devi Mahatmya. Her way of working seems different that of Lord's, as She works to imbalance the equation of good & evil. She makes evil people more & more evil so that, at last, they fall to hell, or go to lower births; or in case of most abominable sinners, Lord Himself slay them.
Such delusive properties are not seen in Sita Di or Radha Di; they seem full of divine love only (& to me my sisters, whereas Goddess Yogmaya, as usual, still feels like a strict mother to me.)
As per Ramayana also, Sita Di was said to be so pure that it was not possible for Ravana to even touch Her. Then how could he capture Her & how could he be slain by Lord? So Goddess Yogamaya took the place of Sita Di, to delude Ravana, & real Sita Di was safe at abode of Agni, the demigod of fire.
So, Yogmaya (Lord's sister) & Radha Di, Sita Di etc. (Lord's consorts) must be different energies.
Other part of my question has not been answered so far; why Goddess Yogmaya didn't have a pastime, when She incarnated to Yasoda Ma?
Yours sincerely,
Nikhil
What I have mentioned is as per scriptures. Its not from my mind.
Lord has used the word mama maya duratyaya in Gita for Mahamaya - so how you say He says Mine only for Yogamaya. Secondly, the functioning of yogamaya and mahamaya are different from internal energies, thats why they are separate forms of energy, otherwise what was the need to have a yogamaya, mahamaya, Sita, Radha. One would have been enough.
Yogamaya is another form of Sita - Sita is the most pure. Therefore, she had to be replaced by Chaya Sita - the story is given in details in Valmiki Ramayan (ISKCON publication). I forget the details.
When yogamaya appeared as Yashoda's daughter, she warned Kamsa, as you know. The other role she played was in Vrindavan - not necessarily as a baby girl, Krsna's sister. But all the pastimes in Vrindavan, arrangements were made by yogamaya only na.
Haribol.
This much I have gleaned from the shearing of Krishna's Bhaktees regarding you statements at-large. In regard to what is or is not included in the Scriptures I fancy' for myself no controls over, & what is done is done. For my understating is Krishna is ultimately the soul proprietor & creator & we are the servents of Hi's pleaser pastimes.
As such We & He are obligated only to realizing the matuer & fulfilment of Hi's pleaser and our roles with in it. As for me/us our aims /need personally is to recognize within our/my heart that it is all Hi's & under Hi's CAMAND for Hi's pleaser & Our growth/Self & God realization(s). As I recognize ultimately We are all His Student's & He is everyone's Head Master in this "bording School" of hard knocks! ?