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Radha Ashtami
Radha Ashtami: Lilavati performing Radha Ashtami and getting liberated:(Padma Purana - Brahma Khanda - 7)
• Radha Ashtami: I meditate on Sri Radharani during the auspicious festival of Radha Ashtami.• Once the Earth was burdened by wicked people. She became helpless and taking the form of a cow approached Lord Brahma to seek relief from her grief. Lord Brahma went to Lord Vishnu. Lord Vishnu asked Sri Radha to incarnate on earth (to become the companion of Sri Krishna). Sri Radha rose from the sacrificial ground of king Vrishabhanu on the Bhadrapada Shukla Paksha Ashtami.
• In Kritayuga there was a beautiful woman by name Lilavati who had committed very grave sins. Once, she went to another city to gain wealth. In that city she saw many devotees observing the vow of Radha Ashtami inside a temple with flowers, sandal, incense, fruits etc. They were singing devotional songs. Knowing about the vow of Radhashtami from them, Lilavati joined them. Later in life, when she died of snake bite and messengers of Yama bound her painfully with a noose and was about to take her, the messengers of Vishnu came with conches and maces in hands, freed her and took her to the abode of Vishnu.
- Radha Ashtami falls on Bhadrapada Shukla Paksha Ashtami
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