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COLLECTION OF ANALOGIES & STORIES
Five principles that awaken one’s love for Krsna
Source: CC Madhya 22.128
The five potent ways that awaken one’s dormant love for Krsna, as given by Caitanya mahaprabhu are:
- Association of devotees
- Chanting the holy name of the Lord
- Hearing Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
- Residing at Mathurā
- Worshiping the Deity with faith and veneration.
‘The power of these five principles is very wonderful and difficult to understand. Even without faith in them, a person who is offenseless can awaken his dormant love of Kṛṣṇa simply by being a little connected with them.’ (CC Madhya 22.133)
Transforming bell metal into gold
Source: SB 5.24.17 Purport
Srila Sanatana Gosvami also states that when bell metal is treated with mercury, it can produce gold. Srila Sanatana Gosvami mentions this in regard to the initiation of low-class men to turn them into brahmanas. Sanatana Gosvami said:
yatha kancanatam yati
kamsyam rasa-vidhanatah
tatha diksa-vidhanena
dvijatvam jayate nrnam
“As one can transform kamsa, or bell metal, into gold by treating it with mercury, one can also turn a lowborn man into a brahmana by initiating him properly into Vaisnava activities.” The International Society for Krishna Consciousness is trying to turn mlecchas and
Take you to your father
Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Disappearance day of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
A rich man’s son is loitering in the street, forgetting his father’s opulence and property. And somebody, out of sympathy, giving him some food. But other person comes to him and says, “Oh, my dear boy, I know you. You are the son of such and such rich man. Why you are loitering in the street? Come on, I shall take you to your father.” So if that gentleman takes that loitering boy to his father, the father is glad, and the boy inherits
Questions about Krsna are loka-hitam
Source: SB 2.1.1
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, your question is glorious because it is very beneficial to all kinds of people. The answer to this question is the prime subject matter for hearing, and it is approved by all transcendentalists.
Questions of Parikshit maharaja are described as loka-hitam or beneficial to everyone because:
- Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu said that the highest perfection of life is to achieve the transcendental loving service of Krishna. Questions and Answers about Krishna elevate one to that transcendental position that is why they are glorified
Better spend time curing the disease
Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Crow-And-Tal-Fruit Logic
Srila Prabhupada encourages us to get out of the material world – not endlessly speculate on how we got here.
Srila Prabhupada dictated this essay in reply to a question about the origin of the living entity: Were we originally with Krishna, or did we fall from Krishna’s impersonal energy, the brahmajyoti? The essay was an addendum to a letter Prabhupada wrote to his disciple Madhudvisa Dasa in June of 1972.
Because he falls down from Brahma-sayujya,
Again become a mouse!
Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Divinity, Demon & Devotee
Punar musiko bhava: “Again become a mouse.” You know this story? Punar musiko bhava. There is a story. There is a very nice story. One rat, mouse, he came to a saintly person. Everyone comes to saintly person for some blessing, you see. Real blessing they don’t want. Some material blessing. Real blessing, Krsna, they don’t want. If you give him some blessing that “You become very rich man and…” These… they’ll be very much pleased. are all very well, this. So this mouse