Vision of A Learned Man
A learned man sees all women other than his wife as his mother, others' possessions as lumps of clay and all living beings as himself.
A learned man sees all women other than his wife as his mother, others' possessions as lumps of clay and all living beings as himself.
Out of fear of the Supreme Lord, the wind blows, the sun distributes its heat and death chases everyone.
Krishna is the supreme father and all living entities within the material world are exactly like misled children of a wealthy man who has left home to loiter in the street. Therefore the greatest benefit one can bestow upon one's fellow human being is to give him Krishna consciousness.
One who always sees all living entities as spiritual sparks, in quality, one with the Lord, becomes a true knower of things. What, then, can be illusion or anxiety for him?
A person who is constantly engaged in reading literature enunciating the cultivation of Vaisnava devotional service is always glorious in human society and certainly Lord Krishna becomes pleased with him. A person who very carefully keeps such literature at home and offers respectful obeisances to it becomes freed from all sinful reactions and ultimately becomes worshipable by the demigods.
The impersonal Brahman is Lord Krishna's bodily effulgence. As fireflies seem brilliant when the sun does not shine, so the impersonal Brahman is glorious only when Lord Krishna's form remains unseen.
Childish fools pursue external desires and enter the wide chords of death. The sages, having comprehended the liberated condition, never pray for the temporary things of this world.
When the Vedic literature describes the Personality of Godhead as being without any qualities (nirguna), this means that the Lord does not possess any material qualities. It does not mean that He has no spiritual qualities.
Logic and arguments are insufficient to understand the Absolute Truth.
The Supreme Lord cannot be obtained by one who is qualified by being a great lecturer, a great scholar or a great student of the Vedic literature. The Lord reveals His own form to one with whom He is pleased.