Compassion

Compassion means that the heart melts, being unable to see others suffering. Compassion is a function of the heart, but here Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami brings the astonishing news to the world that Sri Radha’s body even melts with compassion!

God’s mercy reaches its perfection by giving prema, or love of God, to the conditioned souls. Because Srimati’s body melts with compassion one attains prema simply by seeing Her, without any further need of sadhana, this was practically shown by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in the present age of Kali.

Sri Krishna has assumed the luster and mood of Radha and has descended to earth as Gaura. Sri Radha showed the world the result of Her molten body: She had turned into Gaura and had blessed all the people of the world with prema, without any other endeavour on their parts.

This is Sri Radha’s compassion, not Krishna’s! Krishna’s compassion is a mental action, and therefore still slightly depends on the jiva’s own endeavour, but Sri Radha’s compassion is a physical action, and therefore does not depend on any separate endeavour.

– Srila Ananta das Babaji