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hierarchy: Teachings of Queen Kuntī
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Teachings of queen kuntī 13
Not knowing Kṛṣṇa’s identity, the cowherd boys simply love Kṛṣṇa, and their love is unending. For example, Yaśodāmātā and Nanda Mahārāja, Kṛṣṇa’s mother and father, love Kṛṣṇa with parental affection Similarly Kṛṣṇa’s friends love Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa’s girlfriends love Kṛṣṇa, the trees love Kṛṣṇa, the water loves Kṛṣṇa, the flowers, the cows, the calves – everyone loves Kṛṣṇa. So if we simply learn how to love Kṛṣṇa, we can immediately transform this world into Vṛndāvana.
Teachings of queen kuntī 13
We should always remember that if we can keep ourselves always in company with Kṛṣṇa, we shall attain And especially in this age, Kṛṣṇa has incarnated as the holy name (kali-kāle nāma-rūpe kṛṣṇa-avatāra,
Teachings of queen kuntī 13
Ye yathā māṁ prapadyante tāṁs tathaiva bhajāmy aham: Kṛṣṇa deals with different living entities according For those who regard Kṛṣṇa as an ordinary human being, Kṛṣṇa will deal like an ordinary human being, whereas devotees who accept Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead will enjoy the association of the object of the impersonalist is the brahma-jyotir, the impersonal effulgence of the Supreme, but Kṛṣṇa Therefore Kṛṣṇa is everything (brahmeti paramātmeti bhagavān iti śabdyate).
Teachings of queen kuntī 13
Activities intended to promote all living entities to Kṛṣṇa consciousness are going on not only in human Because all living entities here are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa but are rotting in this material world, Kṛṣṇa has a plan, a big plan to deliver them. For example, Kṛṣṇa even appeared as a fish incarnation.
Teachings of queen kuntī 13
Kṛṣṇa, however, is Yogeśvara, the master of all yogic powers. If we get a little mystic power we become important, but Kṛṣṇa is the master of all mystic powers. In Bhagavad-gītā it is said that wherever there is Yogeśvara, Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
Teachings of queen kuntī 13
Kṛṣṇa is within everyone’s heart (īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe ’rjuna tiṣṭhati, sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi Kṛṣṇa is within and He is also without. Thus Kṛṣṇa showed Arjuna His external feature as the viśva-rūpa, the gigantic cosmic manifestation.
Teachings of queen kuntī 13
Therefore Kṛṣṇa says:
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That is also Kṛṣṇa consciousness. There are no hard and fast rules for chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. One can chant Hare Kṛṣṇa anywhere. Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is simply requesting people, “Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.” Similarly Kṛṣṇa’s friends love Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa’s girlfriends love Kṛṣṇa, the trees love Kṛṣṇa, the water loves Kṛṣṇa, the flowers, the cows, the calves – everyone loves Kṛṣṇa.
Teachings of queen kuntī 13
Kṛṣṇa is the source of everything (ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ), and therefore the transcendental bliss that the impersonalists try to experience by meditating on the impersonal Brahman in fact comes from Kṛṣṇa
Teachings of queen kuntī 13
This is the only central point – how to love Kṛṣṇa (premā pum-artho mahān). The real goal of life is love of Kṛṣṇa.
Teachings of queen kuntī 13
When Kṛṣṇa appeared on earth, not everyone knew that He was the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore Śukadeva Gosvāmī, while describing how Kṛṣṇa played as one of the cowherd boys, points out transcendental bliss, but Śukadeva Gosvāmī points out that the source of that transcendental bliss is here – Kṛṣṇa
Teachings of queen kuntī 13
The cowherd boys playing with Kṛṣṇa are also not ordinary, for they have attained the highest perfection penances to achieve the highest perfection of life, and now they have the opportunity to play with Kṛṣṇa They do not know that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for that is the nature of vṛndāvana-līlā