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Devakī, the devotee who became the mother of Kṛṣṇa, was not an ordinary woman. That is not possible. God is asamaurdhva; that is, no one can be equal to or greater than Him. One who says this is a dog, not God, for God is great, and He has no competitor. God, and everyone else is His servant, including even great demigods like Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva, not

Those who are jealous and envious are within this material world, and those who are not are in the spiritual jealous or envious of our friends or other associates, we are in the material world, and if we are not There need be no doubt of whether we are spiritually advanced or not. We can test ourselves. If we are jealous or envious, we are in the material world, and if we are not we are in the spiritual

America, for example, there is an ample supply of everything needed, although in other countries this is not If one becomes a devotee, one will be amply supplied with food, and if one does not become a devotee

But regardless of what we claim, actually it is not our hand; it is given to us. consciously thinks, “Whatever I have in my possession, beginning with this body and my senses, is actually not I have been given all these possessions to use, and if everything ultimately belongs to Kṛṣṇa, why not

Yet these three controllers are not under the influence of the guṇas. Just as the superintendent of a jail is not a prisoner but the controlling officer, so Lord Śiva, Lord Viṣṇu, and Lord Brahmā control these three guṇas and are not under the control of the guṇas.

Hṛṣīkeśa-sevanam, not hṛṣīka-sevanam – service to the supreme master of the senses, not to the senses

But I am not the controller; the controller is Kṛṣṇa, because if He withdraws my hand’s power to act, Therefore, I should understand that although I possess this hand by the grace of Kṛṣṇa, I am not its

“Because by chance I was born blind,” he thought, “I could not inherit the throne of the kingdom, and Everyone is struggling for existence, not thinking of how Kṛṣṇa will be happy.

In ignorance, one does not know that the senses belong to Kṛṣṇa.

If one is not jealous, one can serve Kṛṣṇa very well, because jealousy and envy begin with being jealous

But Kuntīdevī was shown far more favor because Lord Kṛṣṇa did not save the other children of Devakī,

After all, your sister will not kill you; it is her son who will kill you. That is the problem.

The senses are not ours; they are Kṛṣṇa’s, but Kṛṣṇa gives us the opportunity to use them according to