Krishna Quotes - Page 7

• The ability to handle stress increases with the practice of meditation. In a culture like ours in which inner, spiritual growth is totally neglected in favor of materialistic pursuits, we might have something to learn from the Hare Krishna devotees' meditational practices.

  Daniel Goleman

  Spiritual, Stress, Practice

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• Krishna says meditate and you'll see the various ephemeral worlds, the various ephemeral beings, all of them going through the same thing; some are rich, some are poor, some are more knowledgeable, some are less knowledgeable - in countless myriad universes, forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Forever, World, Ephemeral

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• Krishna consciousness was especially good for me because I didn't get the feeling that I'd have to shave my head, move into a temple, and do it full time. So it was a spiritual thing that just fit in with my life-style. I could still be a musician, but I just changed my consciousness, that's all.

  George Harrison

  Spiritual, Moving, Feelings

  Interview with Mukunda Goswami, September 4, 1982.

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• Every time you are passing the test, you are coming closer to Krishna.

  Radhanath Swami

  Tests, Passing, Passings

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• When you advance in Krishna Consciousness it is more difficult to tolerate being honored than to tolerate being dishonored.

  Radhanath Swami

  Consciousness, Difficult, Tolerate

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• When we face difficulties and still remain faithful to Krishna and spiritual master we access the infinite mercy of their hearts.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Heart, Faithful

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• The ultimate goal of Bhakti is to get Krishna and we get it by taking shelter of the holy name.

  Bhakti Charu Swami

  Names, Goal, Shelter

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• The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Essence, Use

  Radhanath Swami (2014). “Nectar Stream”, p.57, Jaico Publishing House

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• The spiritual master and Krishna are two parallel lines. The train, on two tracks, moves forward. The spiritual Master and Krishna are like these two tracks. They must be served simultaneously. Krishna helps one to find bona fide Spiritual Master and bona fide Spiritual Master helps one to understand Krishna. If one does not get bona fide Spiritual Master, then how he can ever understand Krishna ? You cannot serve Krishna without Spiritual Master, or serve just Spiritual Master without serving Krishna. They must be served simultaneously.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Moving Forward, Two

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• The media is to blame for everything, for all the misconceptions about the movement, but in a sense it didn't really matter if they said something good or bad, because Krishna consciousness always seemed to transcend that barrier anyway. The fact that the media was letting people know about Krishna was good in itself.

  George Harrison

  Media, People, Movement

  "Why being a Beatle was not enough". Interview with Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2001.

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• A spiritual master who is one hundred percent Krishna conscious is the bona fide spiritual master.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Conscious, Hundred

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• Spiritual master is representative of God. Similarly, king is also representative of God. The father is also representative of God. These are the statements of the sastras. Because they will guide. The king will guide. The spiritual master will guide. The father will guide. What is that guidance? That guidance is how one can become Krishna Conscious by education, by culture.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Kings, Father

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• In the Bhagavad-Gita Krishna says: Arjuna you cannot avoid action. Everyone is stuck in the world of action. The world of action is forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Forever, Arjuna, Gita

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• Sri Krishna says whatever role we have in life, we have to play it to the hilt. We have to take it all the way. We have to assume responsibility for our role. To run away from it causes misery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Responsibility, Play

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• If Krishna is good, Christ is good, Allah is good, then Hitler cannot be bad.

  Kedar Joshi

  Christ, Ifs

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• Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.

  Mary Garden

  Spiritual, Children, Views

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• There are four great events in history, the siege of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ, the exile of Krishna in Brindaban and the colloquy on the field of Kurukshetra. The siege of Troy created Hellas, the exile in Brindaban created devotional religion, (for before there was only meditation and worship), Christ from his cross humanized Europe, the colloquy at Kurukshetra will yet liberate humanity.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Europe, Crucifixion Of Christ, Meditation

  "Introduction to the Bhagavad Gita" by Paul Molinari, 1993.

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• You can't expect to be on MTV and critique George Bush. You can't expect to be on BET or the cover of 'The Source' advocating Jesus Christ or Buddha or Hindu Krishna or Moses. As a conscious rap artist, you have to play in the arena that you're supposed to be in. What is that arena? That arena is the college market. The conscious rap artist woos the college market, even though the college market is the wildest, most sexed-out, drug-driven market in the country, possibly the world.

  KRS-One

  Country, Jesus, Rap

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 25, 2001.

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• If you repeat something enough it can literally physically change the air particles around you and it can infuse the air with this sacred sound vibration, or it can change your material body, like transform your flesh to spirit. These are all beliefs within the Hare Krishna philosophy we were brought up with.

  Taraka Larson

  Philosophy, Air, Sound

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is a word Kristos in the Greek dictionary, and this word is supposed to be borrowed from the Sanskrit word "Krishna," and Christ is derived from Kristos.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Greek, Christ, Sanskrit

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• Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise. But what I can't stand are hollow people. When I'm with them I just can't bare it, and wind up saying things I shouldn't.

  Haruki Murakami

  Gay, Pigs, Wind

  "Kafka on the Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami , Chapter 19: Oshima, 2002.

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• I've always enjoyed prasadam much more when I've been at the temple, or when I've actually been sitting with Prabhupada, than when somebody's brought it to me. Sometimes you can sit there with prasadam and find that three or four hours have gone by and you didn't even know it. Prasadam really helped me a lot, because you start to realize "Now I'm tasting Krishna."

  George Harrison

  Three, Gone, Sitting

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• Even one moment in the company of a divine person, Krishna's pure devotee, can help a tremendous amount.

  George Harrison

  Helping, Moments, Divine

  Interview with Mukunda Goswami, September 4, 1982.

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• That was the thing about Prabhupada, you see. He didn't just talk about loving Krishna and getting out of this place, but he was the perfect example. He talked about always chanting, and he was always chanting. I think that that in itself was perhaps the most encouraging thing for me. It was enough to make me try harder, to be just a little bit better. He was a perfect example of everything he preached.

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Perfect, Trying

  Interview with Mukunda Goswami, September 4, 1982.

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• If you want spiritual life you have to pay the price. The price is the four regulative principles.

  Bhakti Charu Swami

  Spiritual, Pay The Price, Principles

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