Radha Ashtami, also known as the ‘Radha Jayanti’ is the birth anniversary of Radha, who is the reincarnation of goddess Lakshmi. This auspicious day falls on the eighth day of the Shukla Paksha during the month of ‘Bhadrapada’. 

The day honors the selfless and famous bond of love between Lord Krishna and Radha, a unique relationship between humans and God. On this auspicious day, special pujas and prayers are organized in temples across the country.

The celebrations are particularly grand and celebrated with magnificence and grandeur in Vrindavan, Mathura and in Barsana, which is the birthplace of Radha, and Iskcon temples where the devotees worship goddess Radha and Krishna together with utmost devotion. 

To understand the sacred relationship between Lord Krishna and Radha, the first and foremost thing to do is clear the mind of the vices and impurities.

Once these are removed from our mind, we will be able to see and understand the real meaning of Raasleela – the individual soul realizing that it is part of the universal soul, which is a continuity. 

Radha exists with Krishna, not without him. She represents the individual soul and Krishna the universal soul. On a lower level, we say the individual soul merges with the universal soul.