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Words of Wisdom - A Collection of Inspiration Quotes from Babashri's Lectures
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Blind thinks, getting eye is God`s grace!
Poor thinks, getting money is God`s grace!
Sick thinks, being healthy is God`s grace!
All this is deceit!
These are not God`s grace!
To whom God is gracious ,
takes (His devotee) in His shelter and showerss grace!
God robs all attachments!
Then only man takes God`s shelter!
This is God`s Grace!
God`s Grace takes a man across illusion!
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Gopies told Shri Krishna to give them (Gopies) divine love,
only that can satisfy our love.
Why to water?
Because the fire of separation,
which is burning (inside) fire of love or fire of desire,
water that!
Water the fire and it extinguishes,
but we do not have to extinguish it with water!
You pour Ghee(clarified butter) on it and increase it!
Some think that Gopies are asking for water
to extinguish the fire, no !
Love does not extinguish like this!
So put off is not to destroy, but to irrigate it!
The vine of love grows by watering !
By the nectar of your lips our love will grow!
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Who is devotee?
Mahaprabhu Chatanyaji had answered it in three categories!
Firstly,
he who takes Krishna's name even once!
Secondly,
he who is engrossed in Krishna's name!
Thirdly,
he while sitting next to him,
Krishna's name comes out itself!
Even
though devotee is divided in three,
but all of them are devotee!
We should not have ill-will towards anybody!
Only Feeling is devotion!
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SIMPLE CURE FOR SEVERE SUFFERING
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Why man is suffering in this world?
Only because of his actions , he is happy or sad!
If the worst suffering is about to come
then what is the simple cure for that?
Firstly that person should sit with Krishna's devotee,
engrossed in Krishna's virtues and chanting !
Secondly that person should keep an eye on himself that
we are not entangled in attachment and jealousy!
When attachment and jealousy come in heart,
every sickness comes in!
If there is no attachment in intellect,
then even death cannot so any harm to him!
Haridas Thakurji used to get whipped and
used to utter Hari Hari,
so that the person who is whipping can be benefitted!
After doing these two,
we will be able to see krishna's grace of real miracle,
without delay!
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IF IRON DID NOT TURN INTO GOLD
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If by touch of paras,
iron did not turn into gold then
either that Paras is not Paras or that iron is not iron
or they did not have contact!
Same way if by company of saints or Satsang,
man's ego has not gone
then either saint was not saint or man did not have capacity
or both of them did not have relationship!
Otherwise ego cannot survive!
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Devotee has a shield!
What is that shield?
Devotee is ever satisfied!
Satisfaction is his shield!
This world is the jungle of thorns!
How long you will be saved?
Wear the shoe as shield to protect from thorns!
Therefore wear the shield of satisfaction in this world!
Remain contented,
even in most fearful situation!
True devotee experiences Krishna's grace in every situation!
Devotee considers his welfare even in defeat!
Kunti, knowingly picked suffering!
We hear these things many times
but do not practice them in our lives!
We should have faith
that there is never any bad in Krishna's shelter!
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We got few precious breaths,
do not waste them in useless worldly talks!
Price of a breath is more than the cost of three worlds!
Utilize them in Krishna's remembrance!
Purify your mind and decorate it with beautiful feelings!
Krishna enters in heart
through Bhav -yog(yog of feelings) and
He robs all human sufferings!
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NO MATTER IN WHICH LIFE YOU TAKE BIRTH
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The devotee is never bothered by any birth,
which he has to take!
King Bali became donkey,
Indra reached there!
He asked, how is it?
King Bali answered to Indra that even here, I am happy!
I am steadfast in my devotion and
you are still burning with jealousy!
Devotee is never fearful, he is ever blissful!
Kakbhushundiji became crow,
Hanuman left His Rudra form and became monkey!
Devotion is filled with emotions!
He can do anything out of emotions!
Devotee never worries about anything at all!
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There is nobody ours in this world !
This is only fraud
that somebody is ours or somebody loves me!
Everybody is blind in his own selfish interest!
He loves only for his own selfish interest!
But Krishn always loves unconditionally!
He does good, always!
Demons remember Krishna with enmity!
But Krishn does their good also!
When the soul understands Krishna's sweetness,
then he receives devotion!
While remembering that sweet form,
you also will be sweet!
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There is one fault in wealth,
It sticks to the person who touches it!
We should not use the Divine wealth in our own interest!
Even lamp offered to Krishna,
should not be used for ourselves!
When there will be so much sacrifice,
then only service can be done!
It is big sin to misuse the wealth!
We should continuously ponder over our own faults! By contemplating ,
faults will not come near you,
otherwise you will remain blind!
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It is big wonder that krishna, who is so near to us,
still we cannot get Him!
Why?
Because Krishna is very subtle !
There is nothing subtler than Him !
Even after looking for Him everywhere,
we do not find Krishna !
He is so subtle
that we cannot see Him through senses,
neither He can be caught!
But it does not mean that we will not get Krishna!
Drink discourses, names and chanting !
only by listening, devotion will come
and intellect will be purified!
As soon as intellect is purified,
Krishna will enter in heart!
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Krishna's name, discourse and chanting
have the same capability as Krishna has!
It is said that Krishna's name is more powerful
than Krishna Himself!
Therefore do not be scared from death, sorrow or sufferings!
Keep on remembering Krishna's name only!
We keep on remembering sufferings
instead of remembering Krishna !
Fear is everywhere in this world
but Krishna's worship is fearless!
As long as there is Krishnaa's name in heart,
there is no fear!
If there is fear,
then it means that Krishna is away from heart!
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Body is just for service!
We should take care of it with this feeling!
Everything becomes pure by offering to Krishna!
If you think that the body is yours,
it's very big sin!
Your body is not yours, it is Krishna's!
This body belongs to Krishna,
nourish it with this feeling!
Whatever you have, it belongs to Krishna!
Nothing is yours!
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Any desire eats-up a person while he is alive!
The root of every crime is lust,
but we do not want to leave this desire!
Why anger comes?
It comes either our desire is not getting fulfilled
or somebody is hindering it!
Intellect becomes hard with anger!
Man thinks according to the company he keeps!
Then he becomes the same!
In Braj there is only love,
therefore there is no harshness!
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Physical and geographical distance does not matter!
Mind matters!
To get Kishna, we do not have to make any effort,
but we have to consider Krishna your own soul,
then Krishna will Himself enter in your heart!
Our heart is suffocated with impressions!
If our heart would become impression- less
then we will have Krishna's company daily!
Can our soul ever be separated from ourselves?
Krishna runs away from impressions!
Only by removal of Impressions,
we receive Krishna!
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If wave from anywhere starts in pond,
it effects the whole pond,
same way devotion of devotee effects the whole world!
The devotee who is chanting,
does not do good to himself
but he does good to the whole world!
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Ego makes a person violent!
When egoistic person talks harshly,
he does verbal violence!
When he thinks about some one's loss,
he does mental violence!
As ego comes,
simplicity goes away and crookedness enters!
Egoistic always stays crooked!
He never listens to anybody!
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Vatsalya (motherly love)
has come in this world from cow!
Firstly, after giving birth,
she cleans the calf by licking it repeatedly!
Then she feeds milk and protects it too!
The place, where cow lives, is the biggest pilgrim!
Lakshmi Herself had made abode in cow-dung!
All Gods reside in cow's body!
If someone leaves his body there,
he instantly gets salvation!
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Every master says one thing that if you have humility,
other qualities will follow!
There is no reaction in humility!
Can there be any wound by hitting axe in water?
There is no reaction to any body's behavior or incident!
Same way devotees are pure like water!
Wherever devotee sits,
he creates clean environment, because of his nature!
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THREE FAULTS IN INTELLECT
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We have three faults in our intellect!
One is Mal (wanting)
second is Vikshep (impurity) and third is Avaran (covering) !
Where there is Maya(illusion),
these three faults will remain!
Desire,lust or want is mal!
Desires are unlimited and
the whole world is becoming blind in it!
Vikshep is Chanchalta (playfulness)!
We are doing Sadhan and mind is wandering!
Avaran or Vail of ignorance!
Krishn is there
but because of Vail of ignorance we cannot see Him!
In order to stay away from these three faults,
we should act unconditionally and without any desire!
Keep on checking your mind,
if any desire is developing there,
stop it immediately!
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Live anywhere in Dham,
but stay away from Vikarm (wrong actions)!
Do not do or hear any outside talk,
even for a second!
If you do, you will be away from Krishna !
While living in Dham,
keep remembering Krishna only!
There is a style to live in Dham!
If you could not live in that manner,
it will not be useless to live there,
but you wouldn't get the best result!
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In religious field,
when the time of examination comes,
we fell sown!
Everything is possible through religion!
but one should not leave patience!
While following Dharm, people create douts!
But no matter how bad Kaliyg is
the righteous person must have patience!
Keep on following your religion,
by staying away from doubts!
Doubts naturally come in human mind!
As man sees any sinner enjoying happily,
because of his Punyas from past life!
Do not doubt in any Plan of Krishna !
Everybody gets result
but he will get it at certain period!
Dharm is the form of Krishna !
Have patience and keep up your good deeds
and stick to your religion!
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When the mind is so engrossed,
that it forgets itself,
that is considered as real effort!
As long as we are outwardly, we are painful!
As long as mind is out
we experience happiness and sadness!
When the mind is intro word,
we do not feel anything!
To go intro ward or to get engrossed,
is the real effort!
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That very day when blaming or seeing faults will end,
we will meet Krishna !
We should overlook faults even after seeing them!
Intellect is destroyed by seeing faults!
But real devotee does not see fault in anyone!
The devotee believes that whatever is happening,
is God's wish and that is good!
Krishna says in Gita that he who sees Me in everybody
and everybody in Me , I always stay closer to him!
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Whenever you pray or talk to Krishna,
do it as if He is standing in front of you!
Whatever you say, do it with feelings!
Talk with open mind!
Merge in Krishna, that He is listening to you!
He is watching you!
Do not pay attention to some one's actions or speech!
Talk to Krishna with attentive mind!
Believe it that Krishna is standing in front of you!
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It is not necessary that
someone may meet God after becoming saint!
Saint saint and priest priest are jealous of each other!
If we do not walk with discrimination,
then even to become saint is also harmful!
It will be misfortune!
It is of four types!
One misfortune is born of wrong doing because of sins!
Second harm is born out of good deeds and
then they came after getting engrossed in pleasures!
Third misfortune comes from crime always!
Devotee is jealous of devotee!
Fourth misfortune comes from devotion!
If you are devotee, people will worship you with this feeling
then slowly you will start expecting respect!
All of these misfortunes are stronger than each other!
Therefore we must walk with discrimination and carefully!
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If you have to see then see Krishna only!
This was the only sectert of Gopies' veil
that except Krishna they did not want to see anybody else!
Gopies through love,
Kans through fear,
Pandavas through affection,
got Krishna !
If you hole fire either by anger or by love,
its' nature is burning!
There is no emotional feeling in objects!
However you take bath in Ganga, it is ausicious!
However reach to Krishna, but get there!
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If you want to reach God,
leave all attachments, desires and become without hostility,
you will quickly get God!
Man,who does not require even a glass of water,
and does not has e desire to talk to someone,
becomes calm and fearless!
As grass grows itself after rain,
same way,
after leaving attractions and desires,
you will see God everywhere!
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We say that this body is ours!
If it is our body then why we cannot stop it from getting sick,
and why this body is burnt after death?
When your body is not yours,
then how your wife and your son will be yours?
Neither body is ours nor anything else is ours!
Shri Krishna is the master of all of us!
We do not make this body neither we foster it nor kill it!
All these actions are done by Krishna !
We do not know when that moment will come
and it will drown us in eternal darkness!
Then think what will happen to us?
Before death comes, proceed towards Shri krishna
and get that light , which is present in you!
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How big is Krishna's devotee?
Who can know his importance!
Wherever once a devotee sits,
all the pilgrimages come themselves!
The devotee is the purifier of pilgrimage!
Not one but millions of Gangas themselves come to him!
Krishna Himself worships devotee!
whole world follows Krishna,
but Krishna follows His own devotee!
Krishna says Himself that the virtues in me comes
from Punya(good deeds) of serving the devotees!
Purity comes by serving devotee;s feet!
The dust of their feet
can end unlimited sins of millions of births in seconds!
coolness comes by serving the devotees!
By doing so Lakshmi follows him effortlessly!
Krishna says even if my arm does any wrong to devotee
then I will cut it!
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See Krishna everywhere!
Only Krishna is present everywhere in different forms!
Krishna's devotee neither sees good nor bad anywhere!
Devotee concentrates his mind only on Shree's feet!
There is not any bigger wealth or efforts
than the remembrance of his own beloved!
After getting to this stage,
there is no need to make any effort!
Without remembrance of Krishna,
all efforts and actions are useless!
The string of Shri Krishna's remembrance is endless,
that Krishna Himself comes tied and never leaves!
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If someone says that I will love Krishna after seeing Him,
is not right!
We can love Krishna only by hearing!
Krishna is Deenbandhu (relative of humble people),
Krishna is AshsranSharan (shelter for shelter- less),
Krishna is Patitpavan (savior from sins),
Krishna is AnathNath (master of orphans)!
After listening all this ,
we love Krishna!
Real nectar is Hari-Katha(stories of Krishn),
just by listening to it,
Krishn's love develops, naturally!
Other efforts(Sadhans) are not that impressive!
Krishna is SarvaShaktiman(all powerful)!
Krishna will appear in front of you
according to your feeling for Krishna !
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Devotee is sandelwood!
As much you will cut ,
sandlewood would give fragrance accordingly!
Devotee is flower!
He gives fragrance to both who is smelling and
one ,who is crushing!
Learn from flowers to give fragrance to the people
who are crushing you
This barren land would turn into beautiful garden
This is God`s law forever Learn to kiss the hand
who tried to kill you
All pearls of heart break and spread all over
Take this and learn to string the garland in love of thread
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LOVING AND EMOTIONAL SIGHT
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The eyes which see God are not these eyes!
Because of worldly pleasures our eyes go away
and mind like mirror gets smeared by layers of pleasures!
Therefore we cannot see the reality!
In the world,
eyes keep on changing according to feelings !
Man sees daughter, wife, friend, enemy and everybody
with different visions!
Those loving and emotional eyes,
which cansee Krishna, Gopies had them!
Through Listening discourses(Katha Shravan)
we surely can get this loving and emotional sight!
The impressiond, which knowledgable people do not get even
by doing penancce,
that can be easily obtained by loving devotion!
We get everything with thees eyes!
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Dust of bihari lal`s feet
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Everyone wants money!
Trustee of temple, priest, thief, Katha- Wachk, sinner,
all of them want money!
But that Lakshmi leaves everything,
and wants the dust of Vrindavan Bihari Lal`s feet!
Divine Love does not expand in Vakunth!
That is why Lakshmiji
wants the dust of Brandavan Bihar Lal`s feet,
even though She is sitting on God`s chest,
which is supremacy incarnate,
because they(feet) has the expansion of divine love!
That Lakshmi wants the dust,
for whom all demy Gods, people, demon,
everybody wants the glance of!
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Intellect is mirror!
If mirror is crooked or broken ,
image will be the same!
Lust, anger and others make mind as mirror dirty!
Mind becomes crooked by harmful thoughts!
Mind becomes simple by simplicity!
Talking crookedly, behaving crookedly, watching crookedly,
make intellect crooked !
Krishna appears in simplicity!
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Protection from adversity or protection from death
or protection from poverty,are not any protection!
After one adversity another follows!
Thousands of Suns put together
cannot remove the darkness of our ignorance!
May there be no development of any desire,
this is the real gift from God to us!
Like mother,
Krishna Himself bears pains and saves His devotees!
As He did not let Naradji got married
and He Himself became recipient of the curse!
Man's enemy is desires only,
because of this lust and anger take birth!
To stay away from this enemy is the real protection!
Krishna saves us from them!
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From whose desire infinite world is created
and dissolution happens!
One who is so powerful,
why He has to ask for alms from Bali?
One who is walking honestly on his path,
even Krishn cannot defeat him!
Therefore Krishn said that even being omnipotent,
I have no solution!
I can only beg from Bali!
Nobody can deviate the people
who are walking on the righteous path!
Durvasaji could not defeat Ambarishji!
Vishwamitraji could not defeat Harishchandrji!
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Never be selfish!
What to talk about others, do not be selfish with child!
Serve after getting over selfishness!
If you do not do so, you will suffer!
This is the secret of Karm (action)!
All the actions are more beneficial
if they are done without expectation of result!
When the devotee becomes impartial,
which means the one who does not need even a glass of water!
His desire ends to talk to chat or to listen or to chat someone!
Then he becomes quiet!
He has no enemy!
He becomes objective!
Krishna runs after these types of devotees and
feels Himself pure!
But our hunger never goes away!
But the hunger of expectation keeps on growing!
Therefore we cannot become devotee or affectionate!
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Devotee is always happy,
no matter how dangerous situation may come!
As flower always bloom
so is devotee always happy in every situation !
There was a devotee
whose head was hit from shoes by people,
happily he answered that
I will get across with the help of devotees` shoes!
Who can sadden these devotees
and who can stop them from getting salvation?
Someone insult you,
you think that he did not hit me!
If he hits,then think,
he did not put me to death!
If he kills then think your many sins of several births,
are finished in this birth!
If you hit with axe in water, can there be any wound?
No!
Same way devotees are (like) water,
there is no possibility
of any reaction in their heart for anybody`s behavior!
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Krishna's grace and grace of illusion
keep on happening to man!
There is a big difference between the two!
When Maya becomes happy and showers grace,
it gives money, wealth, name and respect !
Maya cannot stand in front of Krishna
because it separates man from Krishna!
When Krishna graces,
before giving any wealth,
He takes away the tendency of me and mine!
Krishna gave wealth to Sudamaji but before giving
He took away the feeling of mine and yours!
Feeling of me and mine is awaken by Maya!
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DEVOTEE WITH INTENSE DESIRE
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Nobody is can stop the person
who has intense desire to meet Krishna!
Even the master of three worlds,
cannot stop that devotee !
"When life became Krishna's
Then nobody can do anything"
Nobody could stop Gopies!
What will happen?
How will it happen?
All these doubts does not come to devotee!
One who stopped is not devotee!
Devotee is like a bow who keeps on moving towards Krishna!
The moment which passes, never comes back!
We are constantly getting closer to death!
Therefore run towards Krishna!
Leave everything and run towards Krishna!
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ALL ACTIONS FOR SHRI KRISHNA
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Gopies' all actions were for Shri Krishna !
Even in separation they put on make-up,
why?
Gopies' make-up was in hope of meeting Krishna in separation!
Gopies thought to give-up their lives in Krishna's separation!
But there was a question that whom you want to live for?
Will Krishna be happy by leaving their bodies?
Never.
Therefore they kept on living for Krishna's happiness!
Gopies' every action was for Krishna's happiness!
Their goal was that Krishna should not have a little suffering!
If live , then live for Krishna,
eat or drink for Shri Krishna!
Devotees' every action is for Shri Krishna !
Who will understand devotee's craziness?
He is crazy for Shri Krishna!
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Sun never asks how old is darkness?
Is the darkness of todays' or from several years!
Sun-rays destroy darkness, as soon as they get there!
Same way Shri Krishna's grace never asks that
person standing in front,
how big sinner he is?
With Krishna's grace,
man's sorrows and sins destroy!
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Shri Krishna is the king of every illusion!
How illusion can effect Him and His devotees!
Krishna closes His eyes when illusion appears,
so that there is no disturbance in His play!
Krishna wants His illusion to continue!
When sorrows come to devotees,
then defenetely consider that it is Krishna's wish,
it means Krishna's every plan is auspicious!
Krishna wanted to do good to Putna this way!
Putna, in last birth at king Bali's place ,
wanted to breastfeed Vaman Bhagwan, after seeing Him!
But when Vaman Bhagwan measured all three worlds,
imprisoned Bali then
Putna thought to give poison to this type of child!
Krishna fulfilled her both feelings!
Krishna keeps on watching His devotee's every action!
Therefore nothing is hidden from Him!
Ratnmala, Bali's sister who became now Putna,
did not ask for boon from God,
but she only thought of it!
Still Krishna fulfilled her both wishes!
Same way all demons came in Braj by Krishna's wish!
Because of Krishna's desire,
Indra became angry,
so that all Brajbasis can assemble at one place!
How mosquito can measure infinity of sky!
Same way how can we understand Krishna's play?
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WHEN ALL THE SUPPORTS ARE LEFT OUT
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When all the supports are left out
then we get Krishna's support!
Gajraj kept on fighting for thousands of years,
but Krishna did not come!
As soon as he left his all strength, became weak and called Shri krishna,
then Shri Krishna came right away!
Same way till Dropadi kept on looking towards everybody,
her cloth did not increase!
But after getting disappointed from everybody,
when she called Govind,
He came right away!
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Everybody cannot walk on the path of love!
On this path,
we have to walk on fire by riding on waxed horse!
This path of love is very crooked,
worldly people cannot walk on it!
Either this desire will burn love
or fire of love will burn all desires!
On this path of love there is no sight of beautiful flowers,
on this path we have to sleep on the bed of thorns!
Setting all comforts aside,
we have to burn in fire of separation!
Worldly people! you run away from distance,
otherwise it is hard to escape later!
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Desire is a disease!
But desire to get Krishna, is not a disease,
but it is a cure for all the diseases!
Because after awakening the desire for Krishna,
all the desires go away themselves!
What is the seed of this world?
Desires are the seed of this world!
This seed is poisonous!
After getting divine love for Krishna,
all desires burn themselves!
In which heart divine love comes in, God resides there!
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Whomsoever Krishna is gracious,
only he can reach to Satsang!
By watching and listening impressions
surely imprints on intellect!
Therefore stay in Satsang!
Atmosphere of that place
will surely get you to Krishna's feet!
If you stay in Satsang,
your mind will be pure and peaceful!
Presence of faults will not make
any impression on your intellect!
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NEGLIGENCE IS INTOXICATION
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Negligence is intoxication in the world!
We are surrounded with this negligence!
We are bodies,
and my wife, son, wealth, treasure and
remembering all of them is negligence!
When we chant,
even then our mind remains in these negligence!
When negligence which is worldly intoxication gets off,
then love for Krishna's feet will develop!
When we are beyond negligence,
Krishna's remembrance stays forever!
Then who will remember
son, daughter, daughter-in-law and others!
When the intoxication for Bhajan comes,
then all comforts and Sadhan of this and other world,
are forgotten!
Man forgets everything after getting Krishna's sweetness!
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