Something I do not like at all is some "bhakts" trying to prove Radharani superior to devi Lakshmi like ??? They are the SAME.
I love Radharani okay but I don't need to feel bad or wrong for feeling more connected to Lakshmi Maa. And you can have your beliefs but why go around changing stories, twisting narrative and showing the ashtabharayas as inferior or materialistic?
Krishna loves Devi Rukmini as much as Radharani and all his wives, what do you not understand?!! Gaudiya vaishnavism has glorified only the workship of Radhakrishna and it overshadowed pretty much everything else.
And I am always a bit sad and petty about what could have been, we could have had so many temples dedicated to the ashtabharayas and more stories and poetries for them, have them being known in mainstream culture but we don't and that disappoints me to no end! Heck most people don't even know who Devi Rukmini and ashtabharayas are and it saddens me, they deserves so much better!
If you feel connected to shree radha that's good! But stories like how Lakshmi maiya cannot enter Vrindavan cuz only madhuraya bhava can be present here not Aishwarya bhava and I am like excuse me?!??! Devi Lakshmi is the Supreme goddess! She is the jagadjanani? How is that she cannot enter Vrindavan!? It makes no sense whatsoever! I could go on about this ugh!
