{"id":4884,"date":"2019-09-06T09:08:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T13:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=4884"},"modified":"2019-09-06T09:08:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T13:08:37","slug":"who-is-srimati-radharani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/who-is-srimati-radharani\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Srimati Radharani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/radharani1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4885\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/radharani1-1-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/radharani1-1-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/radharani1-1.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is one person whose name is never mentioned in \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam. And yet Bh\u0101gavatam\u2019s steadfast readers constantly nurture the ardent hope of becoming that person\u2019s devout, one-pointed servant.<br \/>\nMay that person, who means everything to \u015ar\u012b Bhagav\u0101n, kindly destroy our false ego in all its various forms and bestow upon us the shelter of Her lotus feet.<br \/>\nToday is the day of Her advent.<br \/>\nThat personification of grand benevolence, having collected all varieties of graces from \u015ar\u012b Bhagav\u0101n to bestow as gifts upon all beings, is eternally the foremost of the benevolent. May She descend within our hearts and make Her appearance there, and may Her advent be the concern of our worship.\u201d<br \/>\n(Srila Bhaktisiddhanta)<\/p>\n<p>It is common for us to hear that the entire earth is sustained by the entity known as Govinda. Many people speak in these terms.<br \/>\nYet there is one whom Govinda Himself esteems as His all in all, His sarvasva. And without the guidance of that entity, we cannot realize what it actually means that She is His everything, His sarva.<\/p>\n<p>The word sva means \u201cone\u2019s own\u201d, but it can also mean \u201cone\u2019s treasure\u201d or \u201cone\u2019s affluence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>One who is Govinda\u2019s own, or one who is the affluence of Govinda, is Govinda\u2019s entire fortune.<\/p>\n<p>The treasure that makes Govinda wealthy is naturally the very essence of His all in all \u2013 His sarvasva-vastu.<\/p>\n<p>\nWe can only know the true meaning of loving worship when we make Her \u2013 Govinda\u2019s sarvasva-vastu \u2013 the object of our own loving worship.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is one person whose name is never mentioned in \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam. And yet Bh\u0101gavatam\u2019s steadfast readers constantly nurture the ardent hope of becoming that person\u2019s devout, one-pointed servant. May that person, who means everything to \u015ar\u012b &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/who-is-srimati-radharani\/\" aria-label=\"Who is Srimati Radharani\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 19:18:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}