You cannot understand Krsna by exercising your sensual perception, speculation. It is not possible. Krsna is so great that He is not within your sensual exercise. No. He can be understood by surrender. Krsna, therefore, recommends this process: sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [Bg. 18.66]. Because our disease is rebellious, no authority. We don’t […]

When all the principal queens of Lord Krsna had finished their statements, Rohini, as the representative of the other sixteen thousand queens, began to narrate the incident of their becoming wives of Krsna. “My dear Queen, when Bhaumasura was conquering all the world, he collected wherever possible all the beautiful daughters of the kings and […]

When Krsna left Vrndavana for Mathura, the gopis became most dejected and spent the rest of their lives simply crying in separation from Krsna. This means that in one sense they were never actually separated from Krsna. There is no difference between thinking of Krsna and associating with Him. Rather, vipralambha-seva, thinking of Krsna in […]

If we want to love Krsna as a son, Krsna is prepared to be our son. Arjuna accepted Krsna as his friend, and Krsna was his best friend. Everyone can accept Krsna in so many ways. We can love Krsna as Arjuna did, or as Mother Yasoda did. Similarly, Pariksit Maharaja simply heard about Krsna […]

You are trying to spread Krsna consciousness with so much endeavor. It’s not that cent per cent people of the world will take. That is not possible. Ei rupe brahmanda bhramite kono bhagyavan jiva [Cc. Madhya 19.151]. Only the fortunate persons will be able to take it. So we should not be disappointed that “Nobody, […]

Then another gopi began to speak. “My dear friend,” she said, “Krsna is very clever in using words. No one can compete with Him in that art. He can manufacture such colorful words and talk so sweetly that the heart of any woman would be misled. Besides that, He has perfected the art of smiling […]

Prabhupada: When everything is Krsna, that is Vrndavana life. Why Vrndavana life is so exalted? Because they have no other shelter except Krsna. The whole book Krsna is therefore center Krsna. That’s all. But there are many varieties of activities. Hari-sauri: There’s ninety chapters there. Just…, that’s a drop in the ocean. Prabhupada: Every page, […]

Govinda resides eternally in Vrndavana. In the spiritual world of Vrndavana the buildings are made of touchstone, the cows are known as surabhi cows, givers of abundant milk, and the trees are known as wish-fulfilling trees, for they yield whatever one desires. In Vrndavana Krsna herds the surabhi cows, and He is worshiped by hundreds […]

Asakti, that tendency of attachment, should be transferred to Krsna. That is Vrndavana life. In Vrndavana the center of asakti is Krsna. There is Nanda Maharaja, Yasoda — they have asakti to Krsna. The young girls, they have got asakti to Krsna. The cowherd boys, they have got asakti to Krsna. The trees, they have […]

The gopis or cowherd girlfriends of Krsna underwent tremendous penances in their previous lives to attain Krsna as their husband. Similarly, in Srimad-Bhagavatam, Sukadeva Gosvami says that those boys who were playing with Krsna had undergone great penances and austerities in their previous lives in order to acquire Krsna as a playmate. Thus the playmates, […]

Sometimes Mother Yasoda used to ask Krsna to bring her a wooden plank for sitting. Although the wooden plank was too heavy to be carried by a child, still somehow or other Krsna would bring it to His mother. Sometimes His father, while worshiping Narayana, would ask Him to bring his wooden slippers, and Krsna, […]

This is the process: we have to follow the previous acaryas. That is Vedic system. In the very beginning of this chapter Krsna said, evam parampara-praptam imam rajarsayo viduh [Bg. 4.2]. We haven’t got to make any research, modern understanding. There is no question of modern understanding. We are all following the old, ancient understanding. […]