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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
Don't let a breath escape from your body without Krishna's name. That should be our determination throughout our life. -- Radhanath Swami
I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna. -- Mark Twain
Every time you are passing the test, you are coming closer to Krishna. -- Radhanath Swami
Giving up pride means giving all credit and glory to Guru and Krishna. -- Radhanath Swami
The more we are happy in Krishna Consciousness, the more we become purified. -- Radhanath Swami
Even when Krishna gives you strength, maya will delude you to think it is your strength. -- Radhanath Swami
According to our purpose, motivation and sincerity, which compose our devotion, Krishna reveals Himself to us. -- Radhanath Swami
If we feel unqualified and feel grateful for an opportunity to serve, then Krishna will bestow in our hearts. -- Radhanath Swami
When you advance in Krishna Consciousness it is more difficult to tolerate being honored than to tolerate being dishonored. -- Radhanath Swami
Krishna says, fight. He says, go out in the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Krishna is present fully in His holy name and this is realized by the humility and sincerity in our chanting. -- Radhanath Swami
Detachment does not mean to neglect what Krishna gives you. Detachment means to do the needful as an offering to Krishna. -- Radhanath Swami
If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument. -- Hugh Jackman
Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience. -- Jaggi Vasudev
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
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
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
This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness - namely sensual, mental and intellectual. -- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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
When I came to the industry, many directors like Krishna Vamsi and Puri Jagannath had encouraged me a lot. Krishna Vamsi is my mentor, and I admire him. That's why I give chances to new directors. -- Ravi Teja
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
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
My secret ambition was always to provide music for animation films: something with an Indian theme, either a fairy tale or mythological tale or on the Krishna theme. I still have a very deep desire, but these sorts of chances don't always come. -- Ravi Shankar
Krishna says, fight. He says, go out on the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill; and whether they were your friends or not, you have to look at the big picture. In the big picture, you can't go kill anybody, you can't be killed. -- Frederick Lenz
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
Hare Krishna, Peace and Love -- George Harrison
A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark. -- Louis MacNeice
That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable. -- Rudolf Otto
You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna. -- Swami Vivekananda
Guru is heavy, because he carries Lord Krishna in his heart. -- Radhanath Swami
"I had Krishna and I have lost Him." That is humility. -- Radhanath Swami
Krishna exalts those who are humble and humbles those who exalt themselves. -- Radhanath Swami
Be very humble when you plan so that Krishna is happy with you. -- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Enlightenment is represented by Sri Krishna, who is said to be an avatar. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The auspiciousness of any situation is how it brings us closer to Krishna -- Radhanath Swami
A guru trains his disciples to become Krishna dasa, a menial servant of Krishna. -- Lokanatha Swami
Guru is not on the way to Krishna, Guru is 'the way' to Krishna. -- Satsvarupa dasa Goswami
If Krishna is good, Christ is good, Allah is good, then Hitler cannot be bad. -- Kedar Joshi
We get sufferings in life so that we become sober and listen to Krishna's message. -- Radhanath Swami
Shri Krishna says: "Better die in your own path than attempt the path of another." -- Swami Vivekananda
Humility is an ornament which attracts Krishna's heart. Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility. -- Radhanath Swami
Christ, Buddha, and Krishna are but waves in the Ocean of Infinite Consciousness that I am! -- Swami Vivekananda
A spiritual master who is one hundred percent Krishna conscious is the bona fide spiritual master. -- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Krishna insisted on outer cleanliness and inner cleansing. Clean clothes and clean minds are an ideal combination. -- Sathya Sai Baba
Spiritual life is absolute reality. Krishna is real but we have lost the ability to realize him. -- Bhakti Charu Swami
Real humility does not depress you, but allows you to call intensely and brings us closer to Krishna. -- Radhanath Swami
The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself. -- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Sri Krishna refers, of course, to this world as a joyless, transient world. Obviously, he's never been to Disneyland. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The ultimate goal of Bhakti is to get Krishna and we get it by taking shelter of the holy name. -- Bhakti Charu Swami
Krishna is God, the source of all that exists, the cause of all that is, was, or ever will be. -- George Harrison
Krishna once said to Arjuna: Consider the past and future with an equal mind, and pass the peanut M&M's. -- Frederick Lenz
By only becoming aware of Krishna's greatness we can become aware of our minuteness. That's the way to become Humble. -- Bhakti Charu Swami
Krishna says, fight. He says, go out in the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Krishna once said to Arjuna: Consider the past and future with an equal mind, and pass the peanut M&M's. -- Frederick Lenz
This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act. -- Frederick Lenz
This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act. -- Frederick Lenz
When we face difficulties and still remain faithful to Krishna and spiritual master we access the infinite mercy of their hearts. -- Radhanath Swami
In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a Hare Krishna, I belong to the church of fried chicken. -- Padma Lakshmi
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
He who is called Krishna is also Siva and the Primal Sakti...He again, who is called Jesus and Allah. Truth is one. -- Ramakrishna
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
The worst tragedy is that this uncontrolled mind steals our consciousness away from Krishna and that is the beginning, the essence of all suffering. -- Radhanath Swami
Out of all the opulences of a living entity its humility which pleases Krishna. Other opulences can also please Krishna if offered with humility. -- Radhanath Swami
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
Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares. -- Swami Vivekananda
The real wealth in Krishna Consciousness is Humility. We don't have to become a big devotee rather we have to become a Humble Devotee. -- Bhakti Charu Swami
One can be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ without denying the flickers of the sacred in followers of Yahweh, or Kali, or Krishna -- Leonard Sweet
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 Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It makes no difference whether you worship God, Jehovah, Allah, Mohammed, Buddha, Christ or Krishna- it is still and always one and the same God. -- Satyananda Saraswati
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
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
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
Since one cannot visually experience the presence of the Supersoul, He appears before us as a liberated devotee. Such a spiritual master is none other than Krishna himself. -- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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
I think to be in a monastery or an ashram is not always the answer because we don't fight, we kick back. We don't listen to Sri Krishna. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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
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
Arjuna is a warrior of great renown, says he won't fight. He tells Krishna: I can't fight because I love these people. It's immoral. It's unjust. There's no winning. -- Frederick Lenz
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 Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Arjuna is a warrior of great renown, says he won't fight. He tells Krishna: I can't fight because I love these people. It's immoral. It's unjust. There's no winning. -- Frederick Lenz
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
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
Existence is governed by its own law. Here, the things impermanent by natureare bound to meet their end. Hence, with the passage of time, not only Ravana'sLanka but "Krishna's" Dwarka also sinks. -- Deep Trivedi
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
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
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
In spiritual life, one must conduct one's whole life under the guidance of the guru. Only one who executes his spiritual life under the direction of the spiritual master can achieve the mercy of Krishna. -- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Love is the door, it is irrelevant with whom you have fallen in love. Love redeems, neither Jesus, nor Krishna. Love redeems. Fall in love. Love is the only redeeming force. Love is the savior. -- Rajneesh
...this time I didn't launch into my usual tirade. Was it a memory of Krishna, the cool silence with which he countered disagreement, that stopped me? I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Formerly when the Govardhanagiri (mountain) was raised aloft by a little boy, the gopis and gopalas realised that Krishna was the Lord. Now, it is not one Govardhanagiri, a whole range will be lifted, you will see! -- Sathya Sai Baba
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
Prabhupada said, "Whatever service one does for Krishna, Krishna never forgets! Krishna will always remembers that service, however insignificant. Even if he comes to the temple and he turns one screw for Krishna, Krishna will never forget." -- Romapada Swami
By the grace of the spiritual master the cloud of the mercy of the Personality of Godhead is brought in, and then only, when the rains of Krishna consciousness fall, can the fire of material existence be extinguished. -- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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
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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
Meditation means removing all your prejudices, putting all your conclusions aside, seeing without any hindrance, seeing without any curtains, seeing clearly without any mediation of any thought, seeing without Buddha standing between you and reality, or Krishna, or Christ. -- Rajneesh
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
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 Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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 Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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
Krishna was once asked what was the most miraculous thing in all creation, and he replied, "That a man should wake each morning and believe deep in his heart that he will live forever, even though he knows that he is doomed. -- Christopher Pike
I am grateful for the unending hunger to rest in the mind of Buddha, the heart of Krishna, a domain where all yogis, sages, and saints abide, waiting for those whose real self has emerged from the searing pilgrimage of Spirit's flames. -- Rod Stryker
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 Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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
When we speak of the dust of the lotus feet of the Spiritual Master, we are speaking of humble approach to serve his instructions. Unless we humbly serve the instructions of the great soul, it is Krishna's arrangement the He never reveals Himself. -- Radhanath Swami
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
Who is the ultimate dreamer? Call it as you will: God, higher consciousness, Krishna, spirit, whatever pleases you. .. One dream, one dreamer, billions of embodied characters acting out that one dream. .. Your true essence is that you are part and parcel of the one big dream. -- Wayne Dyer
We [with Nimai Larson] listened to hardly any music except Hare Krishna music growing up and the occasional Garth Brooks that our babysitter would play for us. From a very early age, we looked at music as mantra based, very cyclical, and having no linear time. -- Taraka Larson
Why'd he name Ram Dass that? And Krishna Das that, instead of vice versa? Is Krishna Das more Krishna like and Ram Dass more Ram-like? Maybe... why not? We grow into our names. But why did my parents named me Jeffrey and my brother Michael? Who knows? -- Surya Das
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 Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Krishna says, fight. He says, go out on the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill; and whether they were your friends or not, you have to look at the big picture. In the big picture, you can't go kill anybody, you can't be killed. -- Frederick Lenz
I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I've struggled a lot to get where I am. I initially got rejected by every producer. But no complaints. I enjoyed each and every moment of the struggle. My first break came in 1997 from Krishna Vamsi and then Puri Jagannadh, who is my closest friend. I owe everything I am to him. Our careers have evolved simultaneously. -- Ravi Teja
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
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
My sweet Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hare krishna. -- George Harrison
When you think you know Everything, you know NOTHING! When you think you know Nothing.. You become KRISHNA- THE UNKNOWN ! -- True Krishna Priya

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