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He is always reserved and perseverant.

A pure devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa resides in the district of Mathurā or Vṛndāvana and visits all the places At these sacred places Kṛṣṇa displayed His childhood activities with the cowherd boys and mother Yaśodā The system of circumambulating all these places is still current among devotees of Lord Kṛṣṇa, and those coming to Mathurā and Vṛndāvana always feel transcendental pleasure.

Everything has some value, and one has to pay the value before obtaining or possessing it. whose bodily beauty is captivating the whole universe, whose eyes are always bounded by black eyebrows and expanded like lotus petals, and who is always eagerly glancing over His devotees and therefore moving slightly here and there. His eyes are always moist, His lips are colored like copper, and through those lips there comes a sound

He says, “I have no love for Kṛṣṇa, nor for the causes of developing love of Kṛṣṇa – namely, hearing and And the process of bhakti-yoga, by which one is always thinking of Kṛṣṇa and fixing His lotus feet in Therefore I must simply pray to You, Gopījana-vallabha [Kṛṣṇa, maintainer and beloved of the gopīs]. I simply wish and hope that some way or other I may be able to approach Your lotus feet, and this hope

workers (karmīs) or mental speculators because such attachment in pure Kṛṣṇa consciousness is very rare and For a person who simply wants to have liberation and to merge into the impersonal brahma-jyotir, attachment This attachment is very confidentially kept by Kṛṣṇa and is bestowed only upon pure devotees. how is it possible for success to be achieved by persons whose hearts are contaminated by the actions and reactions of fruitive activities and who are entangled by various types of mental speculation?

Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta as follows: “What shall I do for Kṛṣṇa, who is pleasing beyond all pleasurable conceptions, and The idea of Kṛṣṇa’s beautiful activities is attracting my heart, and I do not know what I can do!”

This imitative attachment can be divided into two headings – namely, shadow attachment and parā (transcendental By the good grace of the Lord one may also cooperate and join in the chanting. simply by the association of such pure devotees, the moonlike rays from their hearts reflect on him, and And if by the manifestation of such shadow attachment one feels the disappearance of all material pangs

There are impersonalist philosophers and mystics, however, who by a show of devotional service want ultimately for visiting the holy places where Kṛṣṇa had His pastimes, but they simply have a view for salvation, and

If a person is completely detached from material enjoyment and has developed pure ecstatic devotion, It is confirmed also in Bhagavad-gītā that a devotee who has unflinching faith in and devotion to the Unflinching faith in devotional service, in Lord Kṛṣṇa and in the spiritual master makes one highly elevated

emperor above all other kings, yet he developed such ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa that he became a mendicant and went out begging even to the homes of his political enemies and untouchables.

pretending that Kṛṣṇa is talking with him in the form of a boy, or else one may pretend that Rādhārāṇī and Kṛṣṇa both have come to him and are talking with him. Such characteristics are sometimes exhibited by the impersonalist class of men, and they may captivate

or to merging into the existence of the brahma-jyotir, his ecstasies gradually diminish into shadow and Thus, because he does not differentiate between himself and the Supreme Lord, it is his view that by

person is undisturbed even in the presence of various causes of disturbance, he is called reserved and An example of this perseverance and reservation is found in the behavior of King Parīkṣit, as described I have come to the bank of the Ganges just to devote my heart and soul unto the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa

can develop if one associates with a pure devotee or visits holy places like Vṛndāvana or Mathurā, and if an ordinary man develops such attachment for Kṛṣṇa and fortunately performs devotional activities

of Rādhārāṇī, “O Lord Govinda, the girl who is the daughter of King Vṛṣabhānu is now shedding tears, and

If the offense is very serious, then one’s attachment becomes almost nil, and if the offense is not very

Within the mind he is always thinking of Kṛṣṇa, and with his body he either offers obeisances by bowing

hundred years ago or less, one big landlord known as Lal Babu, a Calcutta landholder, became a Vaiṣṇava and

This extinguishing is like the waning of the full moon, which gradually decreases and at last becomes

This means that detachment does not mean artificially keeping oneself aloof and apart from the allurements