Krishna Quotes - Page 8

• In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Mother, Daughter, Cousin

  "Padma Lakshmi: I Don’t Parent Alone" by Yahoo! Shine interview, celebritybabies.people.com. November 03, 2011.

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• Hallelujah and Hare Krishna are quite the same thing.

  George Harrison

  Hallelujah, Hares, Hare Krishna

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. 1982.

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• They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, so if you can get to a man's spirit soul by eating, and it works, why not do it? There's nothing better than having been chanting and dancing, or just sitting and talking philosophy, and then suddenly the devotees bring out the prasadam. It's a blessing from Krishna, and it's spiritually important.

  George Harrison

  Philosophy, Heart, Blessing

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• Krishna is God, so He's absolute: His name, His form, prasadam, it's all Him.

  George Harrison

  Names, Form, Absolutes

  Interview with Mukunda Goswami, September 4, 1982.

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• You can't understand the first thing about God unless you love Him. These big so - called Vedic scholars - they don't necessarily love Krishna, so they can't understand Him and give Him to us.

  George Harrison

  Giving, Firsts, Bigs

  "He Was The Perfect Example". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.backtogodhead.in. February 1, 1983.

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• It would be great if everyone chanted Hare Krishna. Everybody would benefit by doing it.

  George Harrison

  Would Be, Benefits, Hares

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• When you're open to something it's like being a beacon, and you attract it. From the first time I heard the chanting Hare Krishna, it was like a door opened somewhere in my subconscious, maybe from some previous life.

  George Harrison

  Doors, Firsts, Hares

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• What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it's a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it's real, but it doesn't last very long in its realness. It's very ephemeral and to mistaken the forms of life, the shapes that life takes, for reality, is not wise.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wise, Real, Mistake

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• In the East, we have developed a science: if you cannot find a soul mate, you can create one. And that science is Tantra. To find a soul mate means to find the person with whom all your seven centers meet naturally. That is impossible. Once in a while, a Krishna and a Radha, a Shiva and a Shakti. And when it happens it is tremendously beautiful. But it is like lightning - you cannot depend on it. If you want to read your Bible, you can't depend on it that when the lightning is there you will read. The lightning is a natural phenomenon, but not dependable.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Mean, Soul

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• Enlightenment is represented by Sri Krishna, who is said to be an avatar.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Enlightenment

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• That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable.

  Rudolf Otto

  Historical, Figures, Historical Figure

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• Sri Krishna is said to be an avatar, which is a human way of trying to define very big. That is to say that Sri Krishna is not from the local area network, but he has come from a world that is different because his mind is different.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mind, Trying, Different

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• Krishna suprises Arjuna. He says go fight, go kill. Do this because it's only play money. You can't kill your friends any more than they can kill you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Fighting

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• This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Gita

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• Sri Krishna's message is the message of anyone who comes from far away. His message is the same as Buddha, Lao Tsu, Bodhidharma, Milarepa, Padmasambhava.

  Frederick Lenz

  Laos, Messages, Hinduism

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• The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Yoga, Secret

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• Krishna insisted on outer cleanliness and inner cleansing. Clean clothes and clean minds are an ideal combination.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Clothes, Mind, Cleansing

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• You can focus on Jesus or Buddha or Krishna, Ramakrishna, Lao Tsu, Yukteswar, Yogananda, Vivekananda, any of the great spiritual teachers who have lived, or on a living teacher, and draw light from them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Jesus

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• We live in a world of careers. Work, as Sri Krishna points out in the Bhagavad Gita, is a necessary path for everyone attaining enlightenment. It is something that we all do. Some people work very hard at not working.

  Frederick Lenz

  Careers, People, Enlightenment

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• The road for Arjuna is unexpected. Sri Krishna says you have to face that which you fear the most that which you're most attached to and eliminate it. In this case he has to fight a battle, and the battle is his attachments.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fighting, Attachment, Battle

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• From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Strong, Yoga, Wind

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.138, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation; there is the same immensity.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Spiritual, Views, Mountain

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• If we feel unqualified and feel grateful for an opportunity to serve, then Krishna will bestow in our hearts.

  Radhanath Swami

  Grateful, Heart, Opportunity

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• When a Krishna Conscious person is elevated to a responsible position, he never becomes puffed up. Just like a tree when over-laden with fruits becomes humble and lower down. Similarly, a great soul in Krishna Consciousness becomes humbler than the grass and bowed down like the fruitful trees because a Krishna Conscious person acts as the agent of Krishna, therefore he discharges his duty with great responsibility.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Humble, Humility, Responsibility

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• Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself

  Stephen Levine

  Jesus, Life And Love, Maps

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.18, Anchor

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