If I have always loved all men, and that I most certainly have, then, I have always been all women.
I am the black African woman from whom entire humanity evolved.
I am the white woman suffragate who fought for women’s emancipation.
I am the first woman tribal, who hugged a tree in the chipko movement.
I am the Indian queen, Jhansi Rani Lakshmi Bai, who fought the British for the rights of her son and the freedom of her people.
I am Parvathi who did penance to win Siva, Sita who followed Rama into the forest and Satyabhama, Krishna’s extremely jealous wife. I am the chaste and self-denying Uloopi and the earthy and vengeful Draupadi.
I am Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, I am Saraswathi, the goddess of learning and I am Durga, the destroyer of all evil.
I am Sakthi, the personification of energy and power and I am Maya, the illusion with which Krishna runs the universe. I am Satya, the truth, that will lead to Krishna.
I am Meera and the I am the essence of her ecstatic Krishna bhajans.
Ultimately, I am Radha, Krishna’s eternal lover.
Radha, whose love is neither bound by time nor desecrated by social mores, whose love is unconditional and yearning eternal. Whose love is pure feeling!
I am Radha, Krishna’s eternal lover.
