Lord Krishna Quotes

• I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

  James Cameron

  Rivers, Cost Of Living, Magic Moments

  James Cameron (1968). “What a way to run the tribe: selected articles, 1948-67”

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• My life belongs the Lord Krishna now. I'm just the servant of Krishna. I've never been so humble in all my life, and I feel great!

  George Harrison

  Humble, Krishna, Lord

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• Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Self Esteem, Believe, Yoga

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• The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the balanced state of mind, of mental equipoise.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mind, Gita, Messages

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

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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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• Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of dharma ("religion")-for it alone permanently uproots the cause of man's threefold suffering and reveals to him his true nature of Bliss. Self-realization is yoga or "oneness" with truth-the direct perception or experience of truth by the all-knowing intuitive faculty of the soul.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Kings, Yoga, Men

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2007). “God Talks With Arjuna”, p.750, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster - the girls dance and dance and dance with their sweet lord, who has made himself so abundant as to be in the arms of each and every girl. But the moment the girls become possessive, the moment each one imagines that Krishna is her partner alone, he vanishes. So it is that we should not be jealous of God.

  Yann Martel

  Girl, Sweet, Jealous

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.80, Canongate Books

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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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• We don't have to become big scholars, we don't have to become big supermen. We simply have to become a humble servant of Lord Krishna.

  Bhakti Charu Swami

  Humble, Humility, Lord

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• Yoga may have originated in India, where the cow has been revered as sacred for thousands of years, but times have changed since Lord Krishna played his flute for the cows of Vrindavan. There are factory farms in India now.

  Sharon Gannon

  Yoga, Times Have Changed, Years

  Interview with Alicia Silverstone, thekindlife.com. September 17, 2014.

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• Guru is heavy, because he carries Lord Krishna in his heart.

  Radhanath Swami

  Spiritual, Heart, Krishna

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• Only an empowered personality can distribute the holy name of the Lord and enjoin all fallen souls to worship Krishna. By distributing the holy name of the Lord, he cleanses the hearts of the most fallen people. Therefore he extinguishes the blazing fire of the material world. Not only that, he broadcasts the shining brightness of Krishna's effulgence throughout the world. Such an acarya, or spiritual master, should be considered nondifferent from Krishna that is, he should be considered the incarnation of Lord Krishna's potency.

  Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati

  Spiritual, Heart, Names

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• First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him. Then the path is open for going back to home, back to Godhead, to live eternally in full knowledge and full bliss and in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Lord Krishna.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Real, Home

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