According to Bhaktivinoda Thakura, “energy is dependent; so energy is imagined as a female and thus she has become qualified to be embraced by the supreme energetic. To make the truth more easily understood, great sages have added ornamental language to their descriptions. Actually Radha-Krsna is an Absolute Truth.” (from Tattva-sutra 7, as rendered in Sri Bhaktivinoda Vani Vaibhava, Volume 1, page 175)