"In order to avoid such errors," Prabhupada said. "We should understand what who Radha-Krsna actually are. Radha and Krsna display Their pastimes through Krsna's internal energy. The pleasure-potency of Krsna's internal energy is a most difficult subject matter, and unless one understands who Krsna is, he cannot understand it. Krsna does not take any pleasure in this material world, but He has a pleasure-potency. Because we are part and parcel of Krsna, the pleasure potency is within us also, but we are trying to exhibit that pleasure potency in matter. Krsna, however, does not make such a vain attempt."

Meanwhile, playing the devil's advocate, I asked myself why I should be happy to hear about the love of Radha and Krsna - and the answer immediately came. If I am part and parcel of Them, as Prabhupada says, then I am also part of that love; it's natural that I would be happy by connecting with Them. And, if Their love is full of knowledge, pleasure and eternity, it's natural that even a new person, by being even minutely connected to it by hearing, would be uplifted.

"It is not that Radharani is separate from Krsna," Prabhupada continued. "Radharani is also Krsna, for there is no difference between the energy and the energetic…Because of this, the Vaisnava philosophy first of all pays obeisances to and worships the internal pleasure potency of the Supreme Lord. Thus the Lord and His potency are always referred to as Radha-Krsna."