Category:Teachings of Queen Kunti Chapter 04 - Approaching Krsna, the All-pervading Truth
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- A bewildered boy loitering in the street may be reminded, - My dear boy, why are you suffering so much? You are the son of a very rich man who has so much property. Why are you loitering in the street
- A nanda-lilamaya-vigrahaya: Krsna's pastimes are all jubilant. Anandamayo 'bhyasat (Vedanta-sutra 1.1.12): He is by nature full of bliss. We shall never find Krsna unhappy
- According to our karma, our life holds some portion of happiness and some portion of distress. Therefore, if distress comes without invitation, happiness will also come without invitation
- According to our karma, we are sometimes taking birth in a higher planetary system as demigods and sometimes taking birth as cats and dogs or as germs in stool
- Although here in this material world we try to make our relationship with the Supreme by accepting Him as father, Krsna wants to become the son. He takes pleasure in becoming the son of a devotee
- Although the living entity is the son of the richest, most opulent person, he has created a bread problem. This is called ignorance
- Ananda-cinmaya-sad-ujjvala-vigrahasya (Bs. 5.32). That ananda, or pleasure, is not the third-class ananda we enjoy with our bodily senses. Such bodily enjoyment is not ananda but illusion
- As stated in Bhagavad-gita, this realization (interested in purusa) of the Supreme Person takes place after many, many births (bahunam janmanam ante) - BG 7.19
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- By following in the footsteps of devotees like Kunti, we shall be able to understand Krsna's identity
- By hearing about Krsna, however, one comes to the platform of pure goodness. Srnvatam sva-kathah krsnah punya-sravana-kirtanah - SB 1.2.17
- By the grace of devotees like Kuntidevi, we can understand that the all-pervading Absolute Truth, Vasudeva, Paramatma, is present as Krsna (krsnaya vasudevaya) - SB 1.8.21
- By the grace of Kuntidevi we can understand that Krsna, Vasudeva, is the SPG. The word vasudeva also indicates that the Lord is understood when one comes to the platform of pure goodness, which is also called vasudeva, or visuddha-sattva
- By zooming around in their cars and trucks, they have made their own lives dangerous, and they have created danger for others also. At any moment there may be an accident. But they say that this is civilization. Nonsense
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- Devaki-nandana is also mentioned in the Atharva Veda. Krsna comes as Devaki-nandana, and His father is Nanda-gopa, Nanda Maharaja. Krsna likes to be related with His devotees who act as father and mother
- Do not think, "Oh, here is a stone Krsna." Krsna is everything, and therefore Krsna is stone also, but He is not the kind of stone that cannot act
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- Even in the form of stone or metal, Krsna can act as Krsna, and one who worships the Deity will perceive that. Svayam eva sphuraty adah
- Everyone has experience that this material pleasure comes to an end. Spiritual enjoyment, however, does not end; rather, it increases. That is the difference. Therefore we have to associate with Govinda
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- He (God) is a person, but He is not a person of this material world or this material creation, and He does not have a material body. This is to be understood
- He (Krsna) supplies food to the elephant, and He supplies food to the ant, so why not to the human being? But rascals do not know this
- He thinks, "If I do not solve my bread problem, if I do not drive my trucks day and night, how can I live?" This is the nonsense of our modern civilization
- How will my economic problem be solved? The answer is that happiness one desires from economic development will come automatically in due course of time. Tal labhyate duhkhavad anyatah - SB 1.5.18
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- I am very pleased, when my disciples nicely dress the Deity, offer the Deity nice foodstuffs, and keep the temple very clean. Sri-mandira-marjanadau. Marjana means - cleansing
- If he (bewildered boy) comes to understand, "Yes, I am the son of this important man. Why shall I loiter in the street?" he may then return home
- If He (Krsna) can supply food to the elephants, why not to the human beings? The Bhagavatam therefore says, "Don't waste your time with this bread problem." - SB 1.5.18
- If one takes advantage of the Krsna consciousness movement, one can understand God perfectly and completely
- If one were an inhabitant of the sun, what interest would he have in the sunshine? That would be most insignificant for him
- In Los Angeles the neighbors of our temple are sometimes very envious. "You do not work," they say to our Krsna conscious devotees. - You have no anxiety. You have four cars. You are eating so nicely. How is that
- In the beginning Kuntidevi gave us the understanding that God is the supreme purusa, the Supreme Person. He is not impersonal
- In the beginning of her prayers, Kuntidevi said, namasye purusam tvadyam isvaram prakrteh param: (SB 1.8.18) - I offer my obeisances unto the person, purusa, who is prakrteh param, beyond this material manifestation
- In the Bhagavatam it is said, nasta-prayesv abhadresu nityam bhagavata-sevaya (SB 1.2.18). The word nityam means "daily" or - twenty-four hours a day
- Isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese 'rjuna tisthati: (BG 18.61) Krsna, the Supreme Lord, is present in everyone's heart. Thus He is all-pervading
- It is not that by our endeavor alone we can understand Krsna, but our endeavor in loving service will make us qualified, and then Krsna will reveal Himself - svayam eva sphuraty adah
- It is not that one should only attend a bhagavata-saptaha, an official reading of Srimad-Bhagavatam for seven days. That is another form of exploitation
- It is said, govindaya namo namah: (SB 1.8.21) "I offer my respectful obeisances to Govinda." The Krsna consciousness movement is so sublime that it puts one directly in contact with Govinda
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- Krsna is always happy, and whoever associates with Him is also happy. Therefore He is known as Govinda
- Krsna is always Krsna, but because we cannot see anything beyond material elements like wood, stone, and metal, He appears in a form made of these elements. But He is neither wood, metal, nor stone
- Krsna is the all-pervading Supreme Personality of Godhead (krsnaya vasudevaya (SB 1.8.21)), but He is very much pleased to become the son of Devaki - devaki-nandanaya
- Krsna is the supreme father, and all the living entities within this material world are exactly like misled children of a wealthy man who have left home to loiter in the street
- Krsna is very much anxious to take us back home, back to Godhead, but we are stubborn and do not wish to go. Therefore He is always looking for the opportunity to take us back home. He is just like an affectionate father
- Krsna officially takes birth as the son of Devaki and Vasudeva, but in His childhood He enjoys the company of Mother Yasoda and Nanda Maharaja. This is Krsna's pastime
- Krsna will evaporate the water and turn it into clouds, and then when the rain falls down the water will be sweet. Otherwise we cannot drink it. Everything is under control, and everything - water, light, heat, and so on - is complete
- Krsna's stock is never exhausted. We must simply become obedient to Him, and the supply will be there. Therefore a Krsna conscious person has no economic problem; everything is sufficiently supplied by Krsna
- Krsna, the original person, exists in three features: as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as the all-pervading Paramatma (the Supersoul), and as the impersonal Brahman effulgence
- Kuntidevi says, krsnaya vasudevaya (SB 1.8.21). The word vasudeva is sometimes understood to mean "the all-pervading." The impersonalists have this conception of Vasudeva, and therefore Kuntidevi points out, - That Vasudeva, the all-pervading, is Krsna
- Kuntidevi, first said that although Krsna, the Supreme Person, is within and without, to rascals and fools He is invisible. Therefore she points out, - Here is the Lord - Krsna
- Kuntidevi, therefore, is pointing our attention toward Krsna, the Supreme Person, who is alaksya, invisible to all. Who is that invisible person? Here - Krsna
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- Of course, Krsna has immense potencies by which He can supply as much as everyone wants. Eko bahunam yo vidadhati kaman
- Oh, Krsna, - one may say. "There are so many Krsnas." Therefore Kuntidevi says, - I am offering my prayers to Vasudeva, the son of Vasudeva
- One should always read Srimad-Bhagavatam and carry out the order of one's spiritual master. The word bhagavata may refer either to the spiritual master or to the book Srimad-Bhagavatam
- One should always serve the person bhagavata or the book Bhagavata. Bhagavaty uttama-sloke bhaktir bhavati naisthiki. Then one will be fixed immovably (naisthiki) in devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- One should realize the benefits of the Krsna consciousness movement by the prescribed spiritual process and try to distribute these benefits to other people. To awaken the dormant Krsna consciousness of others is the greatest welfare activity in the world
- Only a fortunate living entity gets the opportunity to associate with Krsna and Krsna's devotee, and in this way he gets the seed of devotional service, the chanting of the Hare Krsna mantra, and then his life becomes sublime
- Ordinary men want God as their father, but that is not very pleasing to Krsna because the son always bothers the father - Give me this, give me this, give me this
- Our endeavor should be to become free from this ignorance. It is only for this reason that we should work - to come out of ignorance
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- The best service is to inform those who have forgotten Krsna, "You are part and parcel of Krsna. You are the son of Krsna, who is full in all opulence. Why are you rotting in this material world?" This is the greatest service
- The Bhagavatam says to one who is intelligent (kovida), - Your life should be engaged for this purpose - for understanding the Absolute Truth
- The Deity, although apparently stone, may speak with a devotee. There are many instances in which this has happened
- The greatest benefit one can bestow upon one's fellow human being is to give him Krsna consciousness. No kind of material profit will satisfy the living entity, but if he is given Krsna consciousness he will actually be satisfied
- The jnanis, the impersonalists, who are attached to the Brahman effulgence, try to understand the Absolute Truth by dint of their knowledge, but they do not know that their knowledge is imperfect and limited whereas Krsna, the Absolute Truth, is unlimited
- The person who is dressing the Deity and the person who is cleansing the temple are the same because Krsna is absolute. Therefore, one should engage in Krsna's service in any way, and one's life will be successful. This is the Krsna consciousness movement
- The poor fund of knowledge held by the impersonalists cannot accommodate how the Supreme Absolute Truth can be a person, because whenever they think of a person they think of a person of this material world. That is their defect
- The process of understanding Krsna is sevonmukha - by rendering service. Sevonmukhe hi jihvadau (Brs. 1.2.234). Realization of Vasudeva is possible by rendering service, beginning with the tongue
- The tongue has two functions - to vibrate and to taste. So if one repeatedly hears and vibrates the Hare Krsna mantra and tastes prasada, food offered to Krsna, by this very simple method one will realize Vasudeva, Krsna. Krsna will reveal Himself
- The vigraha, the Deity of Krsna, appears by Krsna's mercy. Because Krsna is alaksya, invisible, He becomes visible to give us the facility to see Him. It is not that Krsna is stone, wood, or metal
- The word go means "senses." We are looking for sense gratification, and if we associate with Krsna we shall enjoy our senses abundantly, just like the gopis who are dancing with Krsna. Thus there is no scarcity of sense gratification
- The word mahatma means "broadminded." One who cannot understand Krsna is not broad-minded but cripple-minded. If one becomes broad-minded, then by the grace of Krsna one can understand Krsna
- The worship of the Deity of Krsna in the temple is also direct contact with Govinda. Sri-vigraharadhana-nitya-nana-srngara-tan-mandira-marjanadau
- There are many Vasudevas. - "No. Nanda-gopa-kumaraya: (SB 1.8.21) I am praying to the foster son of Maharaja Nanda." In this way, three times she (Kuntidevi) points out, - Here is Krsna
- They (neighbors of temple in Los Angeles) are right. Somehow or other we are getting everything we need, and we have no problems, for if one simply becomes a sincere servant of Krsna, everything is provided
- They are envious of us because we do not work but still we have so much. But why don't they come join us? That they will not do. "Come with us," we say. "Chant Hare Krsna." "No, no, no. That I cannot do." - All right. Then work with your trucks
- They work like asses day and night to find bread, and if they go to church, there also they pray, "Give me bread." They are concerned only with the bread problem
- This economic development is madness. Suppose one has a rich father and enough food. Suppose one knows, "My father is the richest man in the city." Then where is one's economic problem? Actually, that is our position
- This is not civilization (zooming around in cars and trucks). Civilization means calmness, prosperity, and santi, peace. In peace and prosperity one should be Krsna conscious always
- This realization of Vasudeva is not possible for impersonalists very easily
- This sense gratification (like the gopis dancing) in association with Krsna is not gross sense gratification; rather, it is the spiritual sense gratification enjoyed in the spiritual world
- Those who are advanced in spiritual life are not interested in the impersonal Brahman effulgence. Rather, they are interested in purusa, the Supreme Person, Vasudeva
- Those who are interested in bhakti-yoga have no interest in the impersonal Brahman effulgence, which is for common men
- To understand the Supreme Lord, we must first come to the platform of sattva, goodness, but goodness here in the material world is sometimes contaminated by the lower qualities ignorance and passion
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- We are already destined to have a certain amount of happiness and a certain amount of distress, and we cannot change that. The change we should make, therefore, is to get free from this material condition of life. That should be our only business
- We are looking for happiness. Are you looking for distress? "No, sir." Then why does distress come upon you? If you are not eager for calamities and distress, why do they come upon you
- We are simply sitting down and inquiring about Krsna, and this is what one should do. This is life. Why should one work day and night like an ass? What kind of life is this? No. This is not life
- We are thinking, "I am enjoying," but that ananda is not factual, because we cannot enjoy this material pleasure of the senses for long
- We are thinking, "I am this material body. I have to work day and night, and then I shall get my food, and I shall live." This is ignorance. We have lived this life of ignorance in forms other than that of a human being
- We can actually see that devotees who were not Krsna conscious four or five years ago have been awakened and are now Krsna conscious. Similarly, others can be awakened also. There is no difficulty. The process is the same
- We cannot approach the unlimited (Krsna) by our limited knowledge. That is not possible
- We have lived in bird life, in beast life, and so on, but now, in this life, we should be peaceful, calm, and quiet, and should simply inquire about the Absolute Truth (jivasya tattva-jijnasa, athato brahma jijnasa). That should be one's occupation
- We have no economic problem. Everything is completely provided. We want water. Just see - there are oceans of water. Of course, we want pure water, and although the ocean has so much water, when water is scarce we shall have to take help from Krsna
- We may ask a person's identity by asking, "What is your father's name?" So Srimad-Bhagavatam presents God with His father's name, His mother's name, and even His address. We are not impersonalists with a vague idea of God
- We should not waste our time with solving economic problems. Economic development is nonsense. Of course, this proposal is very revolutionary, and people may even hate me for it. "What is Swamiji saying?" they may ask. But actually it is a fact
- We should try to hear and chant about Krsna always, twenty-four hours a day, and in this way the dirty things will be cleansed from our hearts
- When a son who is a rascal leaves his father and goes loitering in the street, with no food and no shelter, and suffers very much, the father is always anxious to bring the boy back home
- When we associate with the Deity, we associate with Krsna personally. Because Krsna is invisible, He very kindly takes a form that is visible to us. This is Krsna's mercy
- Where is there a bread problem? Krsna can supply unlimited amounts of bread. There are thousands of elephants in Africa, and Krsna supplies food to them
- Whether one dresses Krsna or cleanses the temple, the spiritual benefit one receives is the same. Don't think, - I am only a cleanser, and he is a dresser
- Why should God be a person of this material world? Therefore in the beginning Kuntidevi cleared away this misunderstanding by saying that the Lord is prakrteh param, beyond this material creation