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CHAPTER 6. NUDITY AND CLOTHING SHOULD GO TOGETHER
dance and all that is feminine in him. Alone Krishna is out and out male, and therefore there is no
meaning in mentioning his name alone. That is why they become united and one, they become
Radhakrishna. Both the extremes of life meet and mingle in Radhakrishna. And this adds to
Krishna’s completeness.
You cannot think of Mahavira standing side by side with a woman; a woman has no relevance to
him. He is very much himself without a woman. Mahavira was married to a woman and they gave
birth to a child, but one of the sects of the Jainas, the Digambaras, do not accept this to be a fact.
They say Mahavira had no wife and no child. But I think that while it is historically true that Mahavira
was married, psychologically what the Digambaras say is right. Psychologically, there can be no
connection between a man like Mahavira and a woman. It is utterly meaningless. Even if it were a
fact we cannot accept it. How can Mahavira love a woman? Impossible. There is not even a trace
of that love in the whole of Mahavira’s life.
Buddha had a wife, but he left her when he renounced the world. Similarly, you cannot associate
Christ with a woman; he is beautiful as a bachelor. And his bachelorhood is meaningful. And in this
sense too, all of them, Mahavira, Buddha and Christ, are incomplete, fragmentary.
As in the great organization of the universe, the positive is incomplete without the negative, the
positive electricity is incomplete without the negative, so in the makeup of human life, man is
quite incomplete without the woman. Man and woman together, rather masculinity and femininity
together, aggressiveness and surrender together, war and peace together, make for a perfect union,
a complete life.
If we want an appropriate symbol to describe the union of Radhakrishna there is one, and only one,
available in the Chinese language: it is called yin and yang. Chinese is a pictorial language with
a picture for every thing and every word. It has a picture representing yin and yang, the Chinese
symbol for the universe. This symbol is in the form of a circle whose circumference is made up of
two fish, one white and the other dark. The tail of each fish is in the mouth of the other, and thus
they make a complete circle, representing the universe. One half of the circle, made up of the white
fish, is exhibited in dark ness, and the other half made up of the dark fish, is exhibited in light. The
white fish represents yang, the masculine active principle in nature, and the dark fish represents yin,
the feminine passive principle in nature – and yang and yin combine with each other to produce all
that comes to be.
Radha and Krishna make for a complete circle of life, whole and abundant. In this sense too, Krishna
Is complete, total. We cannot think of him in fragments and separate from Radha. If you tear him
away from Ra&, he will become lackluster, he will lose all his color. Radha serves as the most
appropriate canvas for the portrait of Krishna to emerge and shine forth. We cannot think of bright
stars without a dark night; the darker the night the brighter the stars. Stars are very much there
even during the daytime don’t think they disappear from the firmament. Even now, as we are sitting
here on a clear morning, the sky is studded with stars, but we cannot see them in the sunshine. If
you enter a deep well – say three hundred feet deep – you can see the stars from there right now,
because there is a deep layer of darkness covering the well. They shine forth in the night because
of the background of darkness.
With the background of Radha, who surrounds him from all sides, the life of Krishna shines bright.
In her company Krishna achieves his absolute flowering. If Krishna is the flower, Radha serves
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