Krishna is within your heart. If you kindly continue to hear about Him, as you are doing, then Krishna will be very much pleased, Oh, this person is now interested in me. Because nobody’s interested in Krishna, so Krishna is also silent to them. But as soon as you become interested, oh, Krishna becomes very active, Oh, he’s trying to do something. I shall help him.
Los Angeles, May 19, 1972
If death takes place, let it take here. There is nothing to be said new. Whatever I have to speak, I have spoken in my books. Now you try to understand it and continue your endeavour. Whether I am present or not present, it doesn’t matter. As Krishna is living eternally, similarly, living being also lives eternally. But one who has done service to the Lord lives forever. So you have been taught to serve Krishna, and with Krishna we’ll live eternally. Our life is eternal. A temporary disappearance of this body doesn’t matter. Body is meant for disappearance. So live forever by serving Krishna.
Vrindavan, May 17, 1977
When we are spiritually perfect we develop the spiritual form to live eternally in the spiritual world. In the spiritual world there are exactly the same things as we see here, namely the land, water, trees, birds, beasts, human beings, etc., and all of them are spiritual as all the varieties here are material.
Letter to Gurudas, May 16, 1970
The following is a humble effort to transcribe the class by HG Devakinandan prabhuji on Srimad Bhagavatam verse 3.2.3 wherein he shared the points spoken by our beloved Gurudev HH Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj.
sa katham sevayaa tasya / kaalena jarasam gatah
prshto vaartaam pratibruyaad / bhartuh paadaav anusmaran
"Uddhava thus served the Lord continually from childhood, and in his old age that attitude of service never slackened. As soon as he was asked about the message of the Lord, he at once remembered all about Him."
1.Exalted nature of pure devotee’s devotional service: The above verse is speaking about Sri Uddhava’s exalted devotional service. In this verse, actually we get a glimpse of how a pure devotee actually behaves and we find in this verse that Uddhava is not actually very young anymore but he has been a devotee of Krishna since he was very young. Srimad Bhagavatam explains to us that when Uddhava was only five years old, already at that time, he was constantly absorbed in remembering Krishna. Why? Because he was always playing with dolls related to Krishna and because he had that tradition in him, while playing he would remember the pastimes of the Lord. Now the children are playing with everything except dolls related to Krishna. Srila Prabhupada writes in the purport to Srimad Bhagavatam verse 3.2.2, "In India the children in good families are still given dolls of the Lord like Rama and Krishna, or sometimes the demigods, so that they may develop the aptitude of service to the Lord. By the grace of the Lord we were given the same opportunity by our parents, and the beginning of our life was based on this principle." Srila Prabhupada’s first Rath yatra was actually a toy cart and this was enacted by the mercy of his parents. Srila Prabhupada mentions that it is by the grace of the Lord, the opportunity was given and this is the mood of a devotee. He does not feel that he has achieved this stage of exalted devotional service by his own credit, but always gives credit to the mercy of the Lord.
Krishna’s Lila in Vrindavana is prakata or manifest Lila, and the same is going on eternally in the spiritual realm, which is known as aprakata or nonmanifest. Krsna’s planet and Krsna’s pastimes are going on eternally, and the same is manifested before the conditioned souls at certain intervals, once in one day of Brahma, exactly as the sun is visible for 12 hours once in a 24 hour cycle of day and night. When the sun is visible it is called prakata, and when the sun is not visible that is called aprakata or unmanifested. Nonmanifested therefore does not mean there is no existence, but the terms are used in relation to the visibility or nonvisibility to the limited conditioned souls.
Letter to Syamasundara, May 14, 1970
In Srimad Bhagavatam verse 1.6.32 Narada Muni says to Srila Vyasadev,
deva dattaam imaam veenaam / svara brahma vibhushitaam
murcchayitvaa hari kathaam / gaayamaanash caraamy aham
"And thus I travel, constantly singing the transcendental message of the glories of the Lord, vibrating this instrument called a veena, which is charged with transcendental sound and which was given to me by Lord Krishna."
The transcendental musical instrument veena was personally gifted to Narada Muni by Lord Sri Krishna. In his wonderful purport to the above verse His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada very nicely mentions, "As a pure devotee of the Lord, Sri Naradadeva is always fulfilling his obligation to the Lord for His gift of the instrument, and thus he is always engaged in singing His transcendental glories and is therefore infallible in his exalted position."
The soul already has a spiritual body, which material body covers. My material body grows upon me—my spiritual body—but my material body is unnatural. The real body is spiritual. I am accepting various bodies that are unnatural to my constitution. My real, constitutional position is to be the servant of Krishna.
Los Angeles, May 13, 1973
If there is little pain in the finger, I become so much disturbed because I have got intimate connection with this finger. Similarly, we have got intimate connection with Krishna and we are fallen therefore Krishna also feels little pain, and therefore He comes down. Krishna is feeling pain. So you become Krishna conscious. Then Krishna will feel pleasure.
Vrindavan, April 24, 1975
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