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Quotes page has moved to http://jkp.org/quotes Your soul is yearning for such a love that could extend the peace and happiness of your mind to a non-ending limit and make your heart blissful forever.
Do not talk unnecessarily. Only speak what is necessary and relevant. Speak less and speak sweetly.
If someone makes a mistake, others may get angry, but you must learn to subside your anger. Control it and stop it before it grows in your own mind.
You should practice remaining alert all through the day, and at the time of going to sleep, you should think: "When did I get angry today? When did I become greedy or lustful? When did I hurt others?" You should feel that, think about that, look into your own faults in this way. Make a determination to be more alert the next day. Learn from each fall. The next day it will be less. And then it will be less. Ultimately, it will end.
And always feel that God and the Spiritual Master are with you. With whatever time you have available, bring God and the Spiritual Master into your mind. Remember them. Then your heart will keep purifying.
The devotion done with your heart and mind is the main treasure which you earn. Whenever you take God’s name with loving remembrance even once, that is your earning. No one can spoil it. No one can take it away from you.
This world is most necessary. This world is as necessary as God. The world is for your body& God is for your soul. God is not for your body. The world is not for your soul. They should stay in their own departments.
Dear souls, do devotion, do devotion, do devotion.
Only by doing proper devotion will you attain your beloved Krishn’s Divine love.
The first step of devotion is to have full faith in the your Spiritual Master and surrender to his lotus feet.
True surrender is to join your mind with the Divine Spiritual Master by obeying his instructions without any questions or hesitation.
Serve your Spiritual Master with your body, mind and worldly possessions.
Obtain the true knowledge of soul, maya and God from a Spiritual Master.
Understand from your Spiritual Master your true relationship with your beloved God.
Do not think that there is even the slightest difference between God and the Spiritual Master.
The most important thing in devotion is that devotion should be done by the mind and not by physical senses alone.
Mind alone is the cause of both liberation and bondage.
First, meditate upon the form of Krishn according to your liking. Meditation means lovingly remembering Krishn (Radha Krishn) while trying to imagine that He is present near you in His Divine form.
Along with meditation on the form of Radha Krishn, sing the name, virtues and the leelas of Radha Krishn.
Loving meditation is the life of devotion.
Without true meditation, devotion is like a body without life.
Whatever form of Krishn you like, imagine that form in your mind. Have Krishn in front of you and then do devotion.
Increase the feeling of longing for the full Divine vision of Krishn.
Shed tears of love and separation, and ask Krishn for His Divine love and Divine vision.
Become very restless in separation from Krishn, and deeply cry for Him with humble tears of love and longing.
Even by mistake, do not ask for worldly happiness or any kind of liberation from Krishn.
Do not have ill feelings for anyone, even in dream or by mistake.
Always look towards your own faults. Do not dwell upon or look for faults in others.
Detach your mind from the world and attach it to Krishn. Practice this again and again—all the time.
Always desire for Krishn’s happiness. Do not desire for your own happiness.
Whatever is God’s wish or the Spritual Master’s wish, it should be your wish.
Desire only for Krishn’s Divine service, twenty-four hours a day.
Increase your longing for Krishn’s vision to such an extent that without His vision a moment feels like an eon.
Recognize the presence of your Divine Beloved Krishn in every living and static being all the time.
Feel that Krishn is with you everywhere and all the time. Never feel that you are alone.
Always think that Krishn and your Spiritual Master are watching all of your actions.
Wherever your mind goes, imagine Krishn is standing right there.
In your mind decorate Krishn according to your own liking.
Always keep the feeling of humbleness like a blade of grass in your heart (grass is tread upon by everyone but it never grumbles).
Become tolerant, even more so than a tree (a tree bears all kinds of harsh weather and behavior from people without any grudge and bears fruit for everyone).
Give respect to everyone. Do not desire for others to respect you.
When you inhale say ‘Ra’ in your mind. When you exhale say ‘dhey’ in your mind. And remember Radha.
Do not have attachment or animosity for anyone in the world.
Always keep your mind absorbed in Radha Krishn and your beloved Spiritual Master.
Always remember that this body may be taken away from you any moment.
Understand the fact that your desirous and sensuous mind is your enemy. Do not listen to it!
Whether Krishn gives you His Divine vision or not, keep shedding tears of love and longing continuously.
Faithfully remember that one day Radha Krishn will surely come to you in Their Divine form.
As much as you love Radha Krishn, They love you so much more than that.
Krishn loves the loving heart. He submits Himself to His selfless lover.
Drink the nectar of Divine love of Both, Radha and Krishn, as They are one.
Fill up the pot of your heart with the nectar of Divine love of Radha Krishn and drink it all the time.
The Divine nectar of Radha Krishn love is such that once the pot is filled it always remains full.
Keep on waiting for The Grace of Radha Krishn, and you will surely receive it.
One day Radha Krishn will definitely Grace you and will come to you.
You can choose any form of Krishn (or Radha) from a newly born baby up to sixteen years of age and mentally decorate that form according to your desire and choice.
Along with the meditation on the form of Radha Krishn, you should also remember Their loving leelas and Their virtues, just like: They are the true friend of every humble soul (deen bandhu) and true companions to every fallen soul (patit pavan).
You should not have any worldly desire or even the desire of liberation. You must only desire for Radha Krishn’s Divine love and Divine service.
You should always think that your Divine Beloved (Radha Krishn) and your beloved Master are always with you and are protecting you. Never ever think that you are alone.
All the time in your heart you must remember the name ‘Radhey Shyam’ or ‘Radhey Radhey.’
You have to keep yourself away from damaging thoughts and bad associations. They are: looking to another person’s fault& criticizing other devotees& desire for popularity& disappointment in devotion& laziness in doing devotions& and friendliness with such worldly people whose association may spoil your devotional feelings.
‘Only Radha Krishn are my everything,’ this feeling has to be strengthened in the mind.
Radha Krishn are everything for you. They are truly yours forever by all means, and you only belong to Them.
Don’t think that Krishn is Almighty Supreme God Who is not easily accessible to common souls. He is just yours.
Radha Krishn are so kind and loving that They are waiting for you with Their open arms to embrace. Leaving all the worldly attachments just look at Them with full faith and confidence like a small child and They will become yours forever.
Austerity, yog, or vigorous practice of meditation etc., are never required in order to receive Grace of Radha Krishn as They are causelessly merciful by nature. Just have unflinching faith in Them. That’s all you have to do. Your eternally ruined luck will be instantly transformed and you will become Theirs forever.
Just give yourself into hands of Radha Krishn and see that They will do everything for you.
(Our scriptures tell that) Radha Krishn have embraced great sinful souls, then why don’t you develop full faith in Them? What are you hesitating for? Trust my words, just do it and see…
Only through selfless bhakti one can truly understand God and have His vision. Because Divine love (bhakti) is the inner power of God. Thus bhakti is supreme.
Bhakti is the recognition of our sweet relationship with Krishn. It directly relates to God Krishn Who is beyond this world of maya.
When you have faith in someone, you begin to like him. When you like him more, you begin to love him. When you love him, you like to serve him. When you serve him, you become humble and like to be near him, and all that ends up in deep affinity. A true affinity has no demands and no requisites. There is only one desire: to love him and to serve him and to make him happy, because you feel happy in his happiness. Such feelings for Radha Krishn is bhakti.
A devotee should always, every moment, remember his soul relationship with Radha Krishn and feel affinity. The more you will remember, the closer you will feel with Them. This remembrance is like the life force of all other aspects of devotion, so it is of first importance.
If a person meditates on the form of Radha Krishn with the intention of receiving His vision and love, his meditation will be called remembrance, divine-love consciousness or raganuga bhakti.
Meditation means feeling the Divine presence of Radha Krishn or your Master near you. You can also feel Their touch or the perfume of Their body or the perfume of the garland They are wearing. You should try to visualize in your imagination any leela of Braj or Vrindaban or Barsana where you are either an observer or participant in that leela. You can be very close to Radha Rani or Krishn in the leela or be in the crowd, as you prefer.
Bhakti is the selfless remembrance of Radha Krishn. It is accompanied by the feeling of affinity and a desire to increase longing. Such a devotion purifies the heart of the devotee and qualifies it to receive the Grace of Krishn.
It is the devotee’s purity, sincerity and love for Krishn, which makes it possible to experience the ‘sweetness’ of the name. One shouldn’t think that mechanical chanting of the name without loving remembrance will reveal God or award spiritual experiences. All the Saints and scriptures stress that the name should always be remembered or chanted with selfless love& only then it will sprout the seed of Divine love that lies dormant in the heart of the devotee.
Only the selfless love for Krishn can evolve Divine love virtues in the heart of a devotee, not the mechanical chanting or repetition of the name or any other worshipping formalities.
‘Radha’ name is Radha Herself. If you just realize this truth, it is enough to explode your feelings of love for Her and to really feel Her presence in front of you…
Meditation in raganuga bhakti is not a physical disciplinary act of concentration in the brain area. Meditation means feeling the Divine presence of Radha Krishn or your Spiritual Master near you.
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