Radha Krishna

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Why this is the wedding gift people default to Nearly everyone who arrives here is buying for a wedding, and the reason the pair works is worth saying plainly. A single deity is a statement about faith. A pair is a statement about two people, and it lets you wish a couple devotion and companionship in the same object without having to say either word out loud. That is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to hand over. It also avoids the two things that sink most wedding gifts. It rarely duplicates, and it does not end up in a cupboard, because it has an obvious place to go. Yes, you can give one to a married couple Somebody will tell you that a Radha Krishna murti is wrong for a married couple, on the grounds that Radha and Krishna were never married to each other. We have looked for the source of that and cannot find one, and the tradition points firmly the other way. Radha and Krishna worshipped together are the central form of the Nimbarka, Gaudiya and Pushtimarg lineages, three of the largest devotional traditions in North India. A marriage narrative appears in the Garga Samhita, and Phulera Dooj commemorates it every year in Braj. Millions of married households keep the pair on a shelf. Give it and stop worrying. A pair asks for width, not height The measurement that matters on a paired murti is width, and almost nobody checks it. Two figures share a base, and if they are angled towards each other the base gets deep as well, so a six inch pair can take twice the footprint of a six inch single figure. Measure the shelf before you choose a size, and if you are buying for someone else's home and have not seen the shelf, buy small. Five to six inches sits comfortably in most home mandirs and is the safest size to give blind. Anything above eight inches wants a surface of its own rather than a spot in a crowded mandir, and those are the pieces that go out of stock first, so check the listing rather than assuming. The northeast is the quadrant the vastu tradition as