Rādhā has always been in love with Mohan. There has never been a time when her entire being was not driven by a love for him. There has never been a world in which this love was not burning. There has never been a reality where divine love was not the living force.
Rādhā’s love for Mohan is not just an important event in the history of events. It is reality itself.
It’s not something that exists in the world; it is the world. It’s not something that fills our heart; it is our heart. It’s not a simple pleasure for the satisfaction of God; it is divine pleasure itself.
Rādhā’s love is time itself. Rādhā’s love is space itself. It is always and everywhere. Rādhā’s love is reality, truth, beauty and goodness There is nothing more real. There is nothing more true. There is nothing more beautiful, nothing more good. Rādhā’s love is desire that is everywhere desired.
Through the teaching Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Kṛṣṇa said, yes, I am God, and therefore I am love. But there is more. Love of God is greater still than me. The love of God is greater than God.
Of course, it must be so. God is love, prema. But in order to capture God in the heart, in order to feel God’s love, to live God’s love, there must a living love of God. This living love of God is Rādhā’s prema-śaktī, always giving love, always growing in love.
Rādhā is also God. Rādhā is also love. But she is love that is lived. She is love that is felt. She is love as living, love in action. The living energy of divine love
We too have always been in love. We too are divine lovers. We too possess this divine love, everywhere real, true, beautiful and good.
The truth of our souls is also divine. In our pure spiritual selves (svarūpa) we are also divine lovers. Rādhā is lying in our souls, waiting to be awoken, waiting to be remembered, to be uncovered, waiting for us to return ‘back to Godhead’.
This is why we too have always been in love. We too have always been in love with God. Even when we are in love with our beloved, with our child, with our sister or brother, we are living out our love of God, we are entering, in our very humble way, into the loving pastime of the Vraja Lila.
In our modest way we share in Rādhā’s experience of love: Yes we are souls, living entities, jivas. But greater than us is the love we feel. This love, it feels like it begins from within us, but it is bigger than us, it exceeds us, it goes out form us. It is ecstatic.
Larger than me is the love I feel. Greater than me is the loving energy in everything I do. Yes, I am love, but giving love is greater. Yes, I am bliss, but giving bliss is greater.
This is the gift of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. The love we feel is greater than us. As we grow in our spiritual life, so grows the love we feel. And just as Kṛṣṇa learns, through Mahaprabhu, to serve the love of Rādhā, so we too learn to serve the love we feel in our hearts.
If we follow the loving energy in our hearts, the prema-śaktī—through our meditation, through our practice, through our everyday lives, it will lead us to God.
We love because there is no other way to be, no other way to live, to exist. We love because we are lovers, loving beings.
If we love our beloved, then we have always loved them.
We too have always been in love.