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At first Arjuna was also thinking in terms of bodily connections: “Kṛṣṇa, how can I fight? Arjuna was a very learned man, but he was perplexed. He said, “My dear Kṛṣṇa, now I am puzzled.

In the Bhagavad-gītā (4.1) Kṛṣṇa says,

In the Bhagavad-gītā (18.66) Kṛṣṇa says, mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja: “Simply surrender unto Me.”

responsible, faithful servant of the government, so Yamarāja is a faithful servant of Lord Nārāyaṇa, or Kṛṣṇa

be fully situated in spiritual life, completely surrendered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa

Vedic principles are accepted as authoritative because they originate with Kṛṣṇa.

They did not manufacture principles of religion or irreligion.

When Sanātana Gosvāmī approached Lord Caitanya to become His disciple, Sanātana surrendered himself and said, “My dear Lord, when I was a minister, people used to address me as a learned man, and so I accepted that I was learned and intelligent. This is the result of my learning: I know everything except what I am and how to get out of this miserable

The Yamadūtas replied, “That which is prescribed in the Vedas constitutes dharma, and the opposite of The Vedas are directly the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, and are self-born.

“I instructed this imperishable science of yoga to the sun god, Vivasvān, and Vivasvān instructed it to Manu, the father of mankind, and Manu in turn instructed it to Ikṣvāku.”

Svāyambhuva Manu; Prahlāda Mahārāja; Bhīṣmadeva; Janaka Mahārāja; Śukadeva Gosvāmī; Bali Mahārāja; and These authorities know exactly who God is, and they can direct us to Him.

graduates, who think, “I am a Ph.D., a very learned man,” but if we ask that Ph.D. to explain what he is and He can only state his identification with the body, which he is not, and therefore he is fool number

And there are three principles to observe in taking shelter of a guru: tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśnena We must surrender to the spiritual master, we must inquire from him, and we must render service to him

That kind of guru is useless, and that kind of disciple is useless also.