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Arjuna achieved the favor of Kṛṣṇa by fighting and killing. Hare Kṛṣṇa.”

Our philosophy is, if anyone comes, let him take prasad, chant Hare Krsna, and be happy. Everything is being supplied by Krsna. Krsna is not poor, so why should we deny them? If we believe that Krsna is providing for and maintaining everyone, then why should we be misers? This means losing faith in Krsna and thinking that we are the doers and suppliers. We are confident Krsna will supply! Let the whole world come. We can feed them.

Tejās: After everything was over, Prabhupāda told us, “Just as the gopīs were lusty for Kṛṣṇa, Arjuna

This was the teaching of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, in regard to Lord Kṛṣṇa and His foremost devotees, the gopīs of Vṛndāvana. When Kṛṣṇa left His beloved gopīs and went to Mathurā, never to return to them in Vṛndāvana, the gopīs felt in Kṛṣṇa’s presence. This is the epitome of Kṛṣṇa conscious realization.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa then quoted from the Bhagavad-gītā, Chapter Two, verse 37, where Kṛṣṇa tells Arjuna to fight

“According to Bhagavad-gītā,” Śrīla Prabhupāda said, “Kṛṣṇa made the sky – bhūmir āpo ’nalo vāyuḥ kham In this way, study Kṛṣṇa. Not just studying Kṛṣṇa with the gopīs – then you will misunderstand. But the more you understand Kṛṣṇa, the more you will become His staunch follower. Unauthorized persons never paint Kṛṣṇa creating the sky. They always want to see Kṛṣṇa dancing with the gopīs, and in this way they try to support their own lusty

“Do you think Arjuna was simply meditating on Kṛṣṇa on the battlefield of Kurukṣetra?” “Do you think Arjuna was sitting in yogic trance, while on the battlefield Kṛṣṇa worked?

In the S.F. airport before I departed for London, the Krsna book was given to me by one of your followers

Rāmeśvara mentioned a radio show he had recently been on in California, where a Lutheran minister had said Kṛṣṇa was a sex symbol because He had so many wives and gopīs.

Is the cow as great as Arjuna? No.

by these two practices, Kṛṣṇa will reveal Himself to you – just like Kṛṣṇa is revealing Himself to Arjuna Arjuna is a devotee, he is a friend: ‘I am speaking to you that old system of yoga, bhakti-yoga.’

“Thinking of the checkbook, thinking of the men, thinking of the contractors – this is also like Arjuna’s Arjuna wasn’t sitting before Kṛṣṇa in a trance, meditating on His form.

Why Arjuna? Arjuna, Śrīla Prabhupāda explained, wasn’t a sannyāsī, he was a family man.

Everywhere we go people either know about you or they are very eager to find out about Krsna and yourself

Prabhupāda said that the Vaiṣṇava would fight, but only under the direction of Kṛṣṇa, and he cited Arjuna

Although all the liberated associates of Kṛṣṇa were trying their best to serve Kṛṣṇa – in a kind of competition If Rādhārāṇī or a favorite gopī pleased Kṛṣṇa, the other gopīs did not think ill of her but thought, “Oh, how nicely she has served Kṛṣṇa. Let me try to offer some nice service to Kṛṣṇa so He will be even more pleased!”

Kṛṣṇa ordered Arjuna, and I am Arjuna’s servant.

“I want the benediction to go on fighting for Kṛṣṇa,” he said, “just like Arjuna.”

Even Lord Kṛṣṇa incited the anger of the nonviolent Arjuna, inducing him to fight. And that fighting was transcendental, whereas Arjuna’s reluctance to fight was material.

Just like when Kṛṣṇa left the gopīs and went to Mathurā, we kept looking until the last speck of the