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Now let us eat this cow.” Such a person may look on other humans as brothers, but he looks on the cow as food. A Kṛṣṇa conscious person, however, thinks, “Oh, here is a cow. Here is a dog.

When we serve Kṛṣṇa, we are preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness, or cooking, or cleansing the temple, or distributing books about Kṛṣṇa, or writing about Him, or shopping for foodstuff to offer Him. Kṛṣṇa consciousness means activity. Whatever assets we have should be utilized for Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa has given us a mind, and we must utilize this mind to think of Kṛṣṇa. We have been given these legs, and we should use them to go to the temple of Kṛṣṇa.

Whatever is done in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, knowingly or unknowingly, will have its effect. so much in their bank account of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Similarly, Kṛṣṇa is the supreme spirit, and if a child partakes in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he will be affected Kṛṣṇa will act, whether the child knows or does not know. Every living being should be given a chance to partake of Kṛṣṇa consciousness because Kṛṣṇa is there

transcendentalist should also carefully control his mind, and this means fixing the mind on the Supreme Self, or Kṛṣṇa As explained before, Kṛṣṇa is just like the sun, and if the mind is fixed on Him, there is no question If Kṛṣṇa is always on our minds, māyā, or illusion, can never enter.

Rejoicing in the Self means rejoicing with Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is the Supersoul, or the Superself. Enjoyment means two: Kṛṣṇa, who is the Supersoul, and the individual soul.

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

Kṛṣṇa consciousness means always living with Kṛṣṇa in His spiritual planet. Because we are conscious of Kṛṣṇa, we are already living with Him. For one who remembers Kṛṣṇa without deviation, He is easy to obtain. Why should we try so hard to attain Kṛṣṇa, when Kṛṣṇa Himself says, “I am easy to obtain”? We have only to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma

literatures of devotional service and has attained the stage of firm faith is called a first-class person in Kṛṣṇa , or service to Kṛṣṇa, is the best course and so in good faith have taken it up. The third-class person in Kṛṣṇa consciousness may fall down, but when one is in the second class or first that devotional service to Kṛṣṇa is very good, he has no knowledge of Kṛṣṇa through the scriptures like Faith in Kṛṣṇa is also divided into three stages and described in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

steadily situated in meditation on the transcendent Self, or the Supreme Lord, is described by Śrī Kṛṣṇa

sixth chapter of the Bhagavad-gītā, the Lord emphasizes that the process of karma-yoga, action in Kṛṣṇa But to act perfectly is to act in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and this means acting detached from the fruits

The dhyāna-yogī should vibrate oṁ while remembering Kṛṣṇa, or Viṣṇu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead The impersonal sound of Kṛṣṇa is oṁ, but the sound Hare Kṛṣṇa contains oṁ.

to a good family or to a righteous, rich, or aristocratic family, but if one is situated in perfect Kṛṣṇa It is better to complete the process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness in this life. We only have to keep thinking of Kṛṣṇa; then we will be assured that our next birth will be in the spiritual

, the mystic transcendentalist, his mind regulated, attains to the kingdom of God [or the abode of Kṛṣṇa

It is our nature to hanker after Kṛṣṇa, because He is the most attractive, most beautiful, most opulent Everyone hankers after these qualities, and Kṛṣṇa is the reservoir of all these qualities, and He possesses Kṛṣṇa is the reservoir of everything (raso vai saḥ); therefore when we hanker after beauty or power or knowledge or fame, we should just turn our attention to Kṛṣṇa.

We should be careful not to make the mistake of thinking that everyone is Kṛṣṇa; rather, we should see Kṛṣṇa in everyone. Kṛṣṇa is all-pervading. Why is He to be seen only in human beings? This is possible because the true yogi knows that everything that we see is Kṛṣṇa. How is this carpet Kṛṣṇa? It is Kṛṣṇa because it is made of Kṛṣṇa’s energy.

Then there will be no scope for mischievous activities, due to realization in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. To be engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one should first realize, “I am Kṛṣṇa’s. I am simply Kṛṣṇa’s.” “Pure mind” means understanding, “I belong to Kṛṣṇa.” The mind is pure when it understands, “I belong to Kṛṣṇa.”

“O son of Mahārāja Nanda [Kṛṣṇa], I am Your eternal servitor, yet somehow or other I have fallen into (Śikṣāṣṭaka 5) This is another way of asking Kṛṣṇa to engage us in His service.

Once a person has learned the philosophy of the Bhagavad-gītā, whenever he drinks water, he sees Kṛṣṇa This is the way of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. “I am the light of the sun and the moon.” How, then, can we forget Kṛṣṇa? This, then, is the way of perfect yoga. We have to see Kṛṣṇa everywhere and at all times.

However, for a devotee in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, there is no question of “accidents.”

In this material world, we have forgotten the service of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa; therefore we have become servants Now just turn your service to Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa and you will be happy. You have to render service – either to māyā [illusion], the senses, or to Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa.”