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Radha Krishna from Lladro

Lladro is a Spanish Company noted for high quality porcelain figurines. This limited edition (3000 units) of Radha Krishna porcelain figurine was issued in the year 2005. It retails for about Rupees 247,000.  It seems the Radha Krishna figurine has been sold out as it is no longer available for sale online. (2007) On Radha Krishna The eternal love of Radha and Krishna symbolizes aspiration of a seeker for the Absolute. It is believed in Hinduism that Lord Krishna resides on the Lotus with Radha in the Golok (city of Krishna in heaven) Krishna gets his consort Radha, for the first time, in Jayadev's Gita Govinda a 12 th century literary work of great merit. Radha is the shakti or energy of Krishna and symbolically the energy of the cosmos. She is the power of joy, the ahaladini shakti of Krishna. She is often identified with both Durga and Kali. In the teachings of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Radha- Krishna love stands as the symbol of the unity of