Kṛṣṇa wants to hear the glories of all the devotees who have mamatā, a sense of mineness, towards Him. Mamatā is the scale by which to measure any standard of bhakti. If there is no mamatā, there is no bhakti and no parama-dharma—transcendental, supreme religion of the soul. There may be varṇāśrama-dharma, but not parama-dharma. Kṛṣṇa is Adhokṣaja. He is beyond our intelligence. The organs of our body are material and so…
Who is Krsna? You will only have to remember that He is simply Yasoda-nandana. He doesn’t have any of this opulence. There is no need for arguments to establish that Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and that He is the God of gods, sarvesvari. You don’t need to know anything like this. Only remember that He is Yasoda-nandana, Gopi-kanta, Radha-kanta…
Srila Gurudeva: One person asked me, “What is the significance of taking initiation from any guru? If we are thinking, ‘He is my guru’, only this and not taking initiation, nothing, and chanting and remembering Krsna, what harm is there?” I said that there is so much harm. Without relation, Krsna will not hear anything…
A maid can do many kinds of service the whole day long and in the evening you can pay her and she will go, but your wife or your daughter are sitting the whole day commanding that maidservant. They may easily do anything or not. They have so much mamata, mine-ness, but the servant has nothing. So mine-ness, the mood that Krsna is mine, He is my son, He is my beloved, this is superior, this is called bhava seva…
Srila Gurudeva: I am advising you to follow a very sincere devotee like Sanatana Gosvami. How did he become happy? He was prime minister at that time, but he left this and took shelter at the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. I am going to describe something about his life and precepts. At that time he was the prime minister of a king. We should know that by our own efforts, by our own activities, we cannot do anything if there is no mercy from the Supreme Personality of Godhead or His associates. Sanatana Gosvami was the eldest of three brothers. The three brothers were all engaged in the service of Hussain Shah, the Muslim king in India. But they wanted to have devotion for the Supreme Personality of Godhead…
…Arjuna said, “I will follow Your instructions. I accept You to be Bhagavān.” Then Kṛṣṇa instructed Arjuna. At the end, Kṛṣṇa gave the essence of all His instructions, which is: man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru. Kṛṣṇa personally says that it is He who speaks these words. So, can you determine if Kṛṣṇa has a form or if He is formless? Is a formless entity speaking these words? Mam: think of Me, worship Me, and become My devotee…