Quotations that move me

Krishna’s whispers and smile

Krishna’s whispers and smile

There is so much astonishment and “wow” in these few sentences in the middle of this one purport of Srila Prabhupada… “The Lord Govinda is engaged there in herding the surabhi cows as His natural occupation. These goddesses of fortune can be seen automatically if we are attracted by the bodily features of the Lord. The impersonalists cannot observe such goddesses of fortune because of their dry speculative habit. And...

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Pleasure potency of the Lord entering our heart

Pleasure potency of the Lord entering our heart

For many years I’ve been familiar with the following verse and pondered its meaning and implications. It seems that this verse specifically tells about the process of a soul’s awakening to its real form and relationship with Kṛṣṇa. The topic is a difficult one as it is not really a subject of the mundane mind and intelligence. It is only by the Lord’s potency, specially his potency of pleasure, that any living being can have...

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Same old thing or variety?

Same old thing or variety?

Material same old thing In reference to material life, Prabhupada instructs us: “You put any eatable either in the gold pot or in the iron pot: the taste is the same. ..The taste of these sense enjoyable things are the same everywhere.” Material life may seem to be full of variety, but is it really? Everything is just protons, neutrons, and electrons… not much variety, really! Prabhupada’s instruction reminds us of the...

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Lips and Laughter

Lips and Laughter

Many religions describe God as powerful, angry, even jealous. The Vedic literature describes God as Kṛṣṇa, called Viṣṇu in his majestic feature. Certainly Kṛṣṇa has emotions beyond ordinary human range. What is particularly spiritually potent, however, is to meditate on Him in His mood of smiling and laughing. He laughs, lovingly, at the foolishness of materialists who challenge and try to kill Him, much like parents laugh with affection at a...

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Kṛṣṇa is mine and I am His

Kṛṣṇa is mine and I am His

SB 6.16.41 Being full of contradictions, all forms of religion but bhāgavata-dharma work under conceptions of fruitive results and distinctions of “you and I” and “yours and mine.” The followers of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam have no such consciousness. They are all Kṛṣṇa conscious, thinking that they are Kṛṣṇa’s and Kṛṣṇa is theirs. There are other, low-class religious systems, which are contemplated for the killing of...

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association with saints

association with saints

Sometimes we may think that all we need in order to fully benefit from saintly company is to be present among enlightened souls in physical proximity. We may even think that simply following the instruction in the Bhagavad-gita to serve and ask questions is sufficient. However, in this quote we learn that the saints only give their full blessing when we approach with sincere humility.   “One should approach a Kṛṣṇa conscious person with...

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