If it is Radharani’s love that binds Krishna then is her love greater than Yashoda’s?

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so if it is Radharani’s love that binds Krishna ultimately then is it Yashoda’s love that is glorious or is it Radharani’s love that is glorious actually two understandings, the personal and the philosophical from the personal perspective, Radharani is one person, Yashoda is another person and Yashoda’s love is her own love for Krishna and Radharani is another person her love of course is Madhurya’s is higher but that is a different love from the philosophical perspective actually Radharani is not just a person Radharani is the Ladini Shakti of Krishna Ladini Shakti is defined in Chaitanya Charita Amrit as Ladini karaye Krishna ananda aswadana Ladini dwara Krishna kare bhakte raposhana that Ladini Shakti it does two functions, one is it actually gives Krishna happiness Ladini karaye Krishna ananda aswadana and Ladini dwara Krishna kare bhakte raposhana, Ladini nourishes the devotees of Krishna so that means that actually who whatever devotion anyone has that all the devotion ultimately comes from Radharani because Radharani at one level is a person, at another level she is the Ladini Shakti she is the devotional nourisher so from the philosophical perspective any devotion that anyone has it all comes from Radharani but from the personal perspective, Radharani and Yashoda are both different and when Krishna is tied see there are when there is analysis done of Leela often it is done from a particular perspective so we at that time we should simply relish that perspective, we don’t have to necessarily bring in another perspective, so for example in Gopalachampur Jiva Goswami is analysing the whole of Krishna Leela from the perspective of Brajwasis and even Mahabharata Leela he analyses from that perspective, so he says that among the five Pandavas, why did Krishna like Arjuna the most and then he says over there the reason is because Krishna was always remembering Vrindavan and he was always very pleased with anyone who reminded him of Vrindavan and in Vrindavan there was a Gopa named Arjuna so this Arjuna reminded him of that Arjuna which reminded him of Vrindavan and that’s why this Arjuna was very dear to Krishna most among all the Pandavas, there are no Gopas by the name of Yudhisthira, Bhima, Nakula, Sahadeva now we may say Arjuna was also a great devotee, he had such wonderful character he had also great devotion, that’s true but here this is in Rasa we analyse from a particular perspective that time we just relish that perspective so if in the analysis of Damodara Leela we are focusing on Yashodamayi then we just focus on her glories and how she is able to bind Krishna and if you want to have a more Gaudiya Vaishnava perspective to it wherein in Gaudiya Vaishnava there is one Gaudiya Vaishnava Acharya I think is it it’s Raghunatha Goswami or Gaurakshita Goswami one of them they say that actually our worshipable goddess is Radharani she is whom we worship and because she loves Krishna we offer some respect to Krishna also that is the mood of Gaudiya Vaishnavas so when we have that mood in that mood for analysing then we see everything according to that mood other times we may see from a different mood Thank you