PN Prasad

I know my question is quite confusing, because once you are His beloved you will obviously surrender fully. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Do you want to surrender to Krishna or do you want to be Krishna's beloved?

I was asking 'What do you want in relation to Krishna?'

Not in relation to me !! /images/graemlins/smile.gif Did you get it?

In the company of one who is living Love (a devotee), you also can’t but spring into that Love (Devotion).

"Being a servant is not being a slave, but being a servant is living the dignity of the Master, dissolving into the Master."

Are we really servants of Vaishnavas?

"There are only two relationships in which the mind can mind can burn, vanish, and dissolve---that is, surrender. And these two types of relationships: one is of servant, being a servant; as a servant, one can burn, vanish, dissolve. Another, as beloved; as beloved, one can burn, vanish and dissolve."

Which one do you want?

"There are only two relationships in which the mind can mind can burn, vanish, and dissolve---that is, surrender. And these two types of relationships: one is of servant, being a servant; as a servant, one can burn, vanish, dissolve. Another, as beloved; as beloved, one can burn, vanish and dissolve."

"The mind has promised you heaven, but it is taking you to hell. You have been chasing the mind; you’re trodding behind it. It increases the hunger and thirst in you by giving a little glimpse of joy here and there."

"If you are established in non-violence, in your very presence violence will be dropped by other creatures. Someone comes to attack you, and as soon as they come near you, because your vibration is totally non-violent, they drop down. They stop being violent."

"When there is love without respect, you don't take anything very serious. When there is only respect without love, then the nearness is lost. Something wonderful is lost; something beautiful is lost. But a devotee, a disciple, is a thorough combination of both these, respect and love. That is Divine Love."

Move through this world like a white cloud, unstained, untouched.

You have just been overshadowed by the events in your mind---that is all that has happened. A cloud has covered the sun. What can any cloud do to the sun? Can it destroy it? Remember your nature. You are the only Soul, only Being.

I'm happy that you liked these quotes

You build a world in your mind only through your intentions, your own thought processes. You go on building a castle: what the other person is thinking about you---they may not even think about you anything. You may simply not exist in other person's consciousness, for they are worried about themselves. But you build a big castle about what they are thinking about you in your mind.

I have collected these quotes from various devotees from all the Sampradayas.

Many of the quotes can be found indirectly in the hymns of the Alvars. Some of them are from great devotees like Sri Lakshmi Thathachar (Melkote - Sri Sampradaya), Sri Bannanje Govindacharya (Udupi - Sri Madhva Sampradaya) and Sri Sri RaviShankar (Advaita philosopher).

I have many other quotes about devotion to the Supreme Lord by various teachers from the Advaita, Dvaita and Vishistadvaita Vidya peethas (study centres).

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. It is always so. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

"Devotion (Love) is the ultimate flowering, and you cannot force it to happen. It is a gift to you, again, it's a gift to you. It's a happening, a spontaneous phenomenon."

Dear Srivats,

I think you should not feel bad about the reply of the 'Guest'. Maybe, he has not understood the poem. Many of the westerners are still in the learning process.

We need to be tolerant. Well, if he has understood and pretends to be ignorant, you need not worry about it. He will learn in future that he should not degrade any teachings.

"If you find somebody who has misunderstood, you need to educate and ignore. These are two words you must remember. Just ignoring is not good; that's arrogance. "I'm just trying to educate and see whether they have got it," is also no good. Because then you put all your strength to make them understand---that never happens. So, these two should go hand-in-hand. You should educate and ignore."

"A master is like an ocean. Ocean is there, readily available. It does not reject anybody."

"The path of love is not a tedious path. It's a path of joy. It's a path of singing and dancing. It's not a desert. It is a valley of flowers."

"You may not like somebody's action, what they do, but look into that Divine love that is deep inside them."

As devotees, we all need to do this.

"If you want to grow in Divine Love, you have got to drop the pride and all of the artificial wall we build between ourselves and others. In the "wall" we keep judging others, and we think others are judging us."

"As long as there is ego, there is no Divine Love; and when there is Divine Love, the ego---there is no sign of it."

"Life is the process of "churning." Your mind is being churned by so many things, events happening. Your mind is churned and churned and churned, and finally, the "butter" comes---it's the sainthood, the saintliness in you."

"Celebration happens when the mind unites with the spirit. The mind keeps crying and crying until it finds the spirit! When the mind unites with the spirit then real celebration happens."