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Without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one must be always seeking self-centered or extended selfish activities. But a Kṛṣṇa conscious person can do everything for the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa and thereby be perfectly One who has not realized Kṛṣṇa must mechanically try to escape material desires before being elevated

It is the mind that is controlling that independence, and therefore he may either take us to the Kṛṣṇa

Kṛṣṇa sūrya-sama māyā haya andhakāra. Kṛṣṇa is like sunlight and māyā is like darkness. This is the whole philosophy of Kṛṣṇa consciousness: always engage in Kṛṣṇa conscious activities, and

In a church or in a Kṛṣṇa consciousness temple, we speak of God, but people in general are not very interested

Sa vai manaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravindayoḥ. One should fix his mind on Kṛṣṇa, just as Ambarīṣa Mahārāja did when he had a fight with a great aṣṭāṅga-yogī then proceeded to pick a quarrel with Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, but because the king was always thinking of Kṛṣṇa We also can very easily control the mind by keeping it fixed on the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa within. Simply by thinking of Kṛṣṇa, we become victorious conquerors, topmost yogis.

If we have no Kṛṣṇa conscious engagement, we will engage in sense gratification or fruitive activity.

(Viṣṇu Purāṇa 6.7.28) The mind which is always engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the cause of supreme When the mind is thus engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, there is no chance of its being engaged in māyā In Kṛṣṇa consciousness, we remain in the sunlight, and there is no chance of our being obscured by darkness

It is the purpose of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement to fix the mind on Kṛṣṇa. As soon as Kṛṣṇa is seated in the mind, there is light, just as when the sun is in the sky, darkness Kṛṣṇa is just like the sun, and when He is present, there is no scope for darkness. If we keep Kṛṣṇa on our mind, the darkness of māyā will never be able to enter. Keeping the mind fixed on Kṛṣṇa is the perfection of yoga.

Although finite, the conditioned spirit souls are as full of light as Kṛṣṇa.

When Vyāsadeva saw Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Lord, he also saw māyā, darkness, under His shelter.

The yoga system is meant to disentangle us, and the perfection of yoga is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Thus Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the most effective means by which we can disentangle ourselves from the influence

As stated before, sitting in silent meditation means stopping undesirable activity, but acting in Kṛṣṇa Therefore we must engage the senses in action for Kṛṣṇa and in this way remain firmly fixed in Kṛṣṇa

You can only eat kṛṣṇa-prasāda.” The purpose of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness process is to actualize the spiritualization of senses, mind, Once we are awakened in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the intelligence, mind, and senses cannot act nonsensically

It is important to understand, however, that from the beginning, a Kṛṣṇa conscious person is situated on the platform of meditation because he is always thinking of Kṛṣṇa. Being constantly engaged in the service of Kṛṣṇa, he is considered to have ceased all material activities

In the Bhagavad-gītā, Śrī Kṛṣṇa delineates a number of yoga systems – karma-yoga, jñāna-yoga, dhyāna-yoga All of these systems are connected with God, Kṛṣṇa, just as the entire ladder is connected to the topmost that everyone practicing the yoga system is situated on the topmost floor; only he who is in full Kṛṣṇa

This is actually the perfectional stage of yoga, and one who has attained this stage is said to have This is to say that he has connected, joined, or linked himself with the supreme whole. machine, it serves no function, but as soon as it is properly attached to the machine, it works properly and Presently we are disconnected, and our material fruitive activities are simply a waste of time. Although one may earn thousands of dollars daily and be an important businessman, he is described in

“What is called renunciation you should know to be the same as yoga, or linking oneself with the Supreme

Yoga has nothing to do with sense gratification or fruitive activity. Dhruva Mahārāja underwent severe austerities in order to see God, and when he finally saw God, he said Generally, benediction means receiving a great kingdom, a beautiful wife, palatable food, and so forth

If one has no economic problems, he has sufficient time to understand Kṛṣṇa consciousness.