Devotee (1): What is Balarāma's relationship with Rādhā?
Prabhupāda: That is not our discussion here. What you got this Balarāma's relation... (break)
Devotee (1): I mean, what is Their relationship? I understand that all the expansions come through Balarāma, but...?
Prabhupāda: That's all right, but Balarāma has no relationship with Rādhā.
(Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam------Montreal).
Bhaktijana: What's the relationship between Kṛṣṇa and Rādhā? Rādhā is the energy of Kṛṣṇa?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Ravindra-svarūpa: If the brahma-jyotir is in the spiritual sky, how could we reach it in our mind? Is it in our mind also?
Prabhupāda: It is here also. Just like the sunshine, when it is covered by cloud, the sunshine is also there. Do you follow? You see that the sky is covered, but still you say, "It is day." Why? The sunshine is there. Similarly, brahma-jyotir is here also. Sarvaṁ khalu iti brahma: "Everything is Brahman." But it is covered by māyā. Therefore the full-fledged brahma-jyotir, you cannot see.
(Lecture on Sri Caitanya Caritamrta---------San Francisco).
Guest: For purpose of practice I am asking, when you chant Rāma, should you have the form of Rāma before you?
Prabhupāda: That, that depends on your affection. Bhagavān has got many forms. If you want, if you love Rāma, that's all right. If you love Kṛṣṇa, that is all right. If you love Nārāyaṇa, that is also all right. But Bhagavān mūrti, rāmādi-mūrtiṣu.
(Room conversation---------New Delhi).
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