S.B. 5.19.9 and more

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Dear Prabhus,

Please accept my humble obeisances at the lotus feet of

Srila Prabhupada.

om namo bhagavate vasudevaya

om namo bhagavate vasudevaya

om namo bhagavate vasudevaya

Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.19.9

"[sukadeva Gosvami continued:] The glories of the Supreme Personality

of Godhead are inconceivable. He has appeared in the form of Nara-Narayana

in the land of Bharata-varsha, at the place known as Badarikashrama, to

favor His devotees by teaching them religion, knowledge, renunciation,

spiritual power, sense control and freedom from false ego. He is advanced

in the opulence of spiritual assets, and He engages in executing asuterity

until the end of this millennium. This is the process of self-realization."

Srila Prabhupada teaches us (partial purport) : "... It is impossible

to realize oneself simply by absorbing oneself in speculative and material

activities. One must be very serious about self-realization and the practice

of austerity. Unfortunately, the people of this age of Kali so not even

know the meaning of austerity. Under these circumstances, the Lord has

appeared as Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu to bestow upon the fallen souls the

easiest method of self-realization, technically called cheto-darpana-marjanam,

cleansing of the dirt from the core of one's heart. This method is extremely

simple. Anyone can chant the glorious krsna-sankirtan- Hare Krsna

Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare Hare rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare...."

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Nectar of Devotion, chapter 21, "Qualities of Krsna"

"1. Beautiful Bodily Features

Any comparison of the different parts of the Lord's body

to different material objects cannot factually be a complete comparison.

Ordinary persons, who cannot understand how exalted are the bodily features

of the Lord, are simply given a chance to understand by a material comparison.

It is said that Krsna's face is as beautiful as the moon, His thighs are

powerful just like the trunks of elephants, His arms are like two pillars,

His palms are expanded like lotus flowers, His chest is just like a doorway,

His hips are dens, and the middle of His body is a terrace."

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is, 5.16

The Supreme Lord Sri Krsna tells us :

"When, however, one is enlightened with the knowledge by which nexcience

is destroyed, then his knowledge reveals everything, as the sun lights

up everything in the daytime."

Sila Prabhupada teaches us (very partial purport) : "...One has to learn

the distinction between God and the living entity. Lord Sri Krsna therefore

stated in the Second Chapter (2.12) that every living being is individual

and that the Lord also is individual. They were all individuals in the

past, they are individuals at present, and they will continue to be individuals

in the future, even after liberation. At night we see everything as one

in the darkness, but in the day when the sun is up, we see everything in

its real identity. Identity with individuality in spiritual life is real

knowledge."

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from My Relationship With Lord Krsna, by His Holiness Satswarupa

das Goswami (continued)

"...By observation, guided by the shastras (scriptures), we can

see You, Krsna, as time, destroying everything within the material world.

We should not remain in that kind of relationship with You where we prey

upon others until we get crushed by You in Your form as time and death.

How can the human beehive find relief? People should realize

that nothing is permanent in this material world. Therefore, their greedy

desires are futile. People should take shelter of You. You say in Bhagavad-gita,

'A person in full consciousness of Me, knowing Me to be the ultimate beneficiary

of all sacrifices and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets and

demigods, and the benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities, attains

peace from the pangs of Material miseries.' (Bg.5.29)..."

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Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

 

your servant...:-)

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