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neyaṁ śobhiṣyate tatra yathedānīṁ gadādhara tvat-padair aṅkitā bhāti sva-lakṣaṇa-vilakṣitaiḥ

O Gadādhara [Kṛṣṇa], our kingdom is now being marked by the impressions of Your feet, and therefore it appears beautiful. …

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.8.39

There are certain particular marks on the feet of the Lord which distinguish the Lord from others. The marks of …

In the cāṇakya-śloka, the instructions of the great moralist Cāṇakya Paṇḍita, there is this very nice verse:

pṛthivī-bhūṣaṇaṁ rājā nārīṇāṁ bhūṣaṇaṁ patiḥ śarvarī-bhūṣaṇaṁ candro vidyā sarvasya bhūṣaṇam

Everything looks beautiful when one is intimately related with it. The sky, for example, becomes beautiful in relationship with the …

Therefore Kuntīdevī thinks, “As long as Kṛṣṇa is with us, everything in our kingdom and our capital, Hastināpura, is beautiful. …

It is not that this applied only when Kṛṣṇa was present and Kuntī was speaking. Rather, the truth is always …

Therefore, what was a fact five thousand years ago, during the time of the Pāṇḍavas, is still a fact now. …

Of course, we have to give up anything which is against Kṛṣṇa consciousness. It is not that because we do …

Every one of us, life after life, is knowingly or unknowingly committing sinful activities. I may knowingly kill an animal, …

If a child unknowingly touches fire, does it mean that the fire will excuse the child and not burn? No. …

We should always keep Kṛṣṇa within our minds, for Kṛṣṇa is like the sun. This is the motto of our …

kṛṣṇa—sūrya-sama; māyā haya andhakāra yāhāṅ kṛṣṇa, tāhāṅ nāhi māyāra adhikāra

(Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya 22.31)

Kṛṣṇa is just like the brilliant sun, and māyā, ignorance, is just like darkness. When the sun is present, there …

In fact, however, Kṛṣṇa was not leaving the Pāṇḍavas, just as He never left Vṛndāvana. In the śāstra, the Vedic …

When we see everything as nothing, but have only Kṛṣṇa consciousness, we shall have attained the highest perfection. Therefore the …

Kṛṣṇa cannot be absent from a devotee when the devotee is intensely absorbed in Kṛṣṇa thought. Here Kuntīdevī is very …