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Prabhupāda gave the example of Kṛṣṇa and the gopīs. When the gopīs pleased Kṛṣṇa in the rāsa dance, Kṛṣṇa smiled, and when the gopīs saw Kṛṣṇa’s smile their When Kṛṣṇa saw the newly increased beauty of the gopīs He became more pleased, and thus the happiness and beauty of the gopīs increased even more.

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.

Prabhupāda: “So one Kṛṣṇa and one gopī – they are dancing. That should be the scene. Then the rāsa dance should be stopped, and Kṛṣṇa will talk with the gopīs. Kṛṣṇa will say to the gopīs that, ‘My dear friends, you have come to Me in the dead of night.

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

Therefore, Kṛṣṇa is blackish, and Lord Caitanya is the color of the gopīs. The whole life of Lord Caitanya is the representation of the gopīs’ love toward Kṛṣṇa.

Keith: I saw Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna on the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra. Arjuna was inquiring from Kṛṣṇa, and Kṛṣṇa was reciting the Bhagavad-gītā to him. is the time, and Swamiji is presenting the same thing as Kṛṣṇa, and we are all in the position of 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.

Now Arjuna is perplexed. He is perplexed about whether to fight or not to fight.

The two opposing generals, Arjuna and Duryodhana, had both come to Kṛṣṇa’s tent early in the morning Duryodhana chose to stand by Kṛṣṇa’s head, while Arjuna chose His feet. Kṛṣṇa awoke and saw Arjuna.

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

He explains: Yes, Arjuna’s idea not to fight is good, but then Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Consciousness, instructs Therefore, Arjuna’s fighting is above mundane ethics. It is absolute. If we follow Arjuna, give up good and bad, and act for Kṛṣṇa, not for our sense gratification, then that

Prabhupāda: “Rāsa dance means Kṛṣṇa and Rādhārāṇī in the center and the gopīs are surrounding.

“Then when the rāsa dance is finished, the gopīs will go, and then Kṛṣṇa will say, ‘These gopīs are My I have to take the position of the gopīs – how they are loving Me.’

Rather, a Vaiṣṇava fights for Kṛṣṇa, as did Arjuna and Hanumān.

“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?

Now today, we shall begin the Fourth Chapter – what Lord Kṛṣṇa says to Arjuna.

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.