Krishna Quotes - Page 2

• There's the whole significance of Krishna as the flute player who awakens our consciousness. It doesn't necessarily have to be a flute because for me it was a sitar or a guitar or even Elvis Presley doing "Heartbreak Hotel." It was like Krishna's flute calling me somewhere. It's just really simple when we can remember.

  George Harrison

  Simple, Player, Guitar

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• He who is called Krishna is also Siva and the Primal Sakti...He again, who is called Jesus and Allah. Truth is one.

  Ramakrishna

  Jesus, Truth Is, Primal

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• The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Names, Holy

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• Next time someone tells me they believe in God, I'll say 'Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?...' If they say 'Just God. I only believe in the one God,' I'll point out that they are nearly as atheistic as me. I don't believe in 2,870 gods, and they don't believe in 2,869.

  Ricky Gervais

  Believe, Odin, Jupiter

  "Ricky Gervais: Why I’m an Atheist". blogs.wsj.com. December 19, 2010.

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• I know people within the Hare Krishna community look at pop music as secular, different, and something separate from spiritual music but for me, there's no difference.

  Taraka Larson

  Spiritual, Differences, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Our misery comes, not from work, but by our getting attached to something. Take for instance, money: money is a great thing to have, earn it, says Krishna; struggle hard to get money, but don't get attached to it. So with children, with wife, husband, relatives, fame, everything; you have no need to shun them, only don't get attached. There is only one attachment and that belongs to the Lord, and to none other.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Children, Husband, Struggle

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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• Be passive. In your passivity, God comes. Be feminine. In your femininity, God comes. Have you not watched it? Buddha looks very feminine, Krishna looks very feminine. Why? - because it is simply a metaphor. They have been depicted as feminine, graceful, to show that that is their inner quality - receptivity. When you are doing something you are being aggressive. When you are not doing anything you are non-aggressive. And God cannot be conquered; you can only allow him to conquer you.

  Rajneesh

  Quality, Looks, Conquer

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• Part of Krishna consciousness is trying to tune in all the senses of all the people: to experience God through all the senses, not just by experiencing Him on Sunday, through your knees by kneeling on some hard wooden kneeler in the church.

  George Harrison

  Sunday, People, Church

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• Although many swamis and yogis had come from India to the West, Prabhupada was the only one with the purity and devotion to establish India's ancient Krishna conscious philosophy around the world on its own terms-not watered down, but as it is.

  Mukunda Goswami

  Philosophy, India, World

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• The gopis seek Krishna, another part of themselves that create ecstasy. The man seeks the woman, the woman seeks the man. The Tantric Buddhist seeks annihilation of the ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Men

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• The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things that cause suffering and transient pleasure to something that is perpetual ecstasy. His directions are that exact.

  Frederick Lenz

  Past, Giving, Meditation

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• Unless we hear very strictly with great faith to the order of our Spiritual Master, we will not understand what is the mercy of Krishna and how it is coming upon us.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Order, Mercy

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• Kriya is an ancient science,” Yogananda writes. Mahavatar Babaji rediscovered and clarified the technique after it had been lost in the Dark Ages. Babaji revealed to Lahiri Mahasaya: “The Kriya Yoga which I am giving to the world through you in this nineteenth century is a revival of the same science which Krishna gave, millenniums ago, to Arjuna, and which was later known to Patanjali, and to Christ, St. John, St. Paul, and other disciples.

  Lahiri Mahasaya

  Yoga, Writing, Dark

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• The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teaching, Philosophical, Gita

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• One who loves Krishna will give Him whatever He wants, and he avoids offering anything which is undesirable or unasked for. Thus, meat, fish and eggs should not be offered to Krishna...Vegetables, grains, fruits, milk and water are the proper foods for human beings and are prescribed by Lord Krishna Himself. Whatever else you eat, can not be offered to Him, since He will not accept it.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Offering, Vegetarianism, Vegetables

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• My sweet Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hare krishna.

  George Harrison

  Sweet, Lord, Hallelujah

  Song: My Sweet Lord

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• The Hindus have worshipped from ancient times the baby Krishna in the arms of Virgin Devaki just as the Roman catholics [sic] worship Madona [sic] with baby Christ.

  Swami Abhedananda

  Baby, Catholic, Arms

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• According to our purpose, motivation and sincerity, which compose our devotion, Krishna reveals Himself to us.

  Radhanath Swami

  Motivation, Purpose, Sincerity

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• I've always believed in a higher power. You can call it God, you can call it Jesus, Krishna, Buddha, Allah, I don't care. I really believe we are all a part of God.

  Olivia Hussey

  Jesus, Believe, Care

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• If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception.

  George Harrison

  Believe, Meditation, Perception

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• No matter how much money you've got, it doesn't necessarily make you happy. You have to find your happiness with the problems you have, not worry too much about them, and chant Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare.

  George Harrison

  Worry, Matter, Too Much

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• Christ, Buddha, and Krishna are but waves in the Ocean of Infinite Consciousness that I am!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ocean, Consciousness, Infinite

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• We're importing Hinduism into America. The whole thought of your karma, of meditation, of the fact that there's no end of life and there's this endless wheel of life, this is all Hinduism. Chanting too. Many of those chants are to Hindu Gods — Vishnu, Hare Krishna. The origin of it is all demonic. We can't let that stuff come into America. We've got the best defense, if you will — a good offense.

  Pat Robertson

  Karma, America, Meditation

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• Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devaki mysteriously as the sun setting in the West imparts his rays to the rising moon in the East.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  God, Moon, West

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• Be very humble when you plan so that Krishna is happy with you.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Humble, Humility, Plans

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