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'''Theme Analysis''' | |||
Religion is defined by its ability to connect the living entity with the Supreme Lord. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the human form of life is specifically meant to reestablish this eternal relationship, which has been forgotten due to ignorance. This process, technically known as sambandha-jnana, is facilitated by the bona fide spiritual master and the worship of the Deity Madana-mohana. By connecting with Kṛṣṇa, one automatically establishes a relationship with all living beings, forming the only true basis for universal brotherhood. This relationship is not static; it is dynamic and can manifest in various flavors (rasas), such as servitude, friendship, parenthood, or conjugal love. Once established, this relationship leads to active service (abhidheya) and the ultimate goal of pure love (prayojana). | |||
* '''True Religion:''' Real religion means searching for, understanding, and establishing a relationship with God. | |||
* '''The Process:''' Yoga means "to link up"; it is the means of reuniting with the Supreme. | |||
* '''Sambandha-jnana:''' Knowledge of one's relationship with the Lord is the first step, followed by acting in that relationship. | |||
* '''The Deity:''' Worshiping Madana-mohana helps the aspiring devotee establish their specific relationship with Kṛṣṇa. | |||
* '''Universal Love:''' You cannot have brotherhood without the Father; reestablishing the link with Kṛṣṇa automatically links us to everyone else. | |||
* Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: [[Vanipedia:Establishing Relationship with God|Establishing Relationship with God.]] | |||
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Latest revision as of 12:23, 19 January 2026
Theme Analysis
Religion is defined by its ability to connect the living entity with the Supreme Lord. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the human form of life is specifically meant to reestablish this eternal relationship, which has been forgotten due to ignorance. This process, technically known as sambandha-jnana, is facilitated by the bona fide spiritual master and the worship of the Deity Madana-mohana. By connecting with Kṛṣṇa, one automatically establishes a relationship with all living beings, forming the only true basis for universal brotherhood. This relationship is not static; it is dynamic and can manifest in various flavors (rasas), such as servitude, friendship, parenthood, or conjugal love. Once established, this relationship leads to active service (abhidheya) and the ultimate goal of pure love (prayojana).
- True Religion: Real religion means searching for, understanding, and establishing a relationship with God.
- The Process: Yoga means "to link up"; it is the means of reuniting with the Supreme.
- Sambandha-jnana: Knowledge of one's relationship with the Lord is the first step, followed by acting in that relationship.
- The Deity: Worshiping Madana-mohana helps the aspiring devotee establish their specific relationship with Kṛṣṇa.
- Universal Love: You cannot have brotherhood without the Father; reestablishing the link with Kṛṣṇa automatically links us to everyone else.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Establishing Relationship with God.
Pages in category "Establishing Relationship with God"
The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
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- By definition, religion is that which connects us with God. If it is not capable of connecting us with God, it is no religion. Religion means searching for God, understanding God and establishing a relationship with God. This is religion
- By following the principles of this movement, one becomes disassociated from material mental concoctions and is established on the original platform of the eternal relationship with the SPofG as servant and master. This is the purpose of the KC Movement
- By reestablishing relationship with God, even the most forgotten soul is roused up to the sense of spiritual life, and thus being initiated by the bhakti-vedantas, the people in general gradually progress on the path of transcendental realization
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- If we reestablish our relationship, or our original relationship with Krsna, and Krsna is for everyone, therefore I become for everyone. That is real universal love
- In bhakti-yoga there is a relationship established between the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the devotee. Such a relationship is established in the transcendental mellows known as dasya, sakhya, vatsalya and madhurya
- In the (Kama-gayatri) mantra klim kama-devaya vidmahe puspa-banaya dhimahi tan no ’nangah pracodayat, Krsna is called Kama-deva, Puspa-bana and Ananga. Kama-deva is Madana-mohana, the Deity who establishes our relationship with Krsna
- In the beginning of prema-bhakti, a particular relationship between the Supreme Lord and the devotee is not established, but when prema-bhakti develops, a relationship with the Supreme Lord is manifested in different transcendental flavors
- In the premature stage it is sometimes found that a lusty, conditioned person will artificially try to establish some relationship with Krsna in conjugal love. The result of this is that one becomes prakrta-sahajiya
- It is to be understood that all the queens of Krsna who lived with Him at Dvaraka were in their previous lives very greatly exalted devotees who wanted to establish a relationship with Krsna in conjugal love
- It was with great difficulty that we attained this human form of life just to take advantage of this body and reestablish our relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda
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- Krsna continued, "In spite of this rigid regulative principle, I am asking you for the hand of your (King Nagnajit's) beautiful daughter (Satya) just to establish our relationship in return for your great reception of Me"
- Krsna is prepared to establish a loving relationship with all living entities. In actuality this relationship is already there because He is the supreme father and we are His parts and parcels
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- Real master is Krsna. So in this way, if we establish our relationship with Krsna as..., either as husband or lover or master or friend or son or father, it is perfect. It is perfect. We have to go to that stage
- Removal of ignorance involves the reestablishment of the eternal relationship between the worshiper and the worshipable and the consequent understanding of the difference between the part and parcel living entities and the SP of Godhead. BG 1972 purports
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- Sambandha-jnana refers to establishing one's relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, abhidheya refers to acting according to that constitutional relationship, and prayojana is the ultimate goal of life, which is to develop love of Godhead
- Sanatana term is very important. The living entity is sanatana, God is sanatana, the spiritual world is sanatana, & the process by which your lost relationship with God established and you go back to home, back to Godhead, that is called sanatana-dharma
- Some way or other, if someone establishes in his mind his continuous relationship with Krsna, this relationship is called remembrance
- Sri Krsna is compared to the sun. The darkness of nescience disappears as soon as our relationship with Sri Krsna is established
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- The cosmic situation is giving us all facility to reestablish this relationship with Krsna and return to Godhead. This should be our mission in life
- The devotee, or the man who is established in relationship with God, his expenditure will be different. His expenditure will be not for sense gratification - for advancement of God consciousness. That is the ideal man
- The purpose of our society for Krishna Consciousness is to train people in the science of breaking their servitorship to maya and re-establishing their relationship with Krishna as His loving servitor
- The queens continued, "Dear black cloud, we must admit frankly that to establish an intimate relationship with Syamasundara means to purchase unnecessary anxieties while we are otherwise comfortable at home"
- The real master commands, "You must do this," and the real servant immediately obeys the order. Unless this relationship between the Supreme Lord and the subordinate living entity is established, there can be no real happiness
- The word yoga means "to link up," and the idea is that in yoga we link our consciousness to God. It is a means for reuniting with God or re-establishing our relationship with Him
- This civilization is so risky that people are not being given the real right that human being has the right to understand God and to make his relationship reestablished and go to home, back to Godhead
- This relationship (relationship with Krsna) is established by connecting oneself with the bona fide spiritual master who is the direct representative of Krsna in disciplic succession
- To know Krsna is to know one's self, & to know one's self is to know one's relationship with Krsna. Since this relationship can be learned by worshiping the Madana-mohana vigraha, Krsnadasa Kaviraja first establishes his relationship with Him - CC Intro
- To know Krsna is to know one's self, and to know one's self is to know one's relationship with Krsna. Since this relationship can be learned by worshiping Madana-mohana vigraha, Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami first establishes his relationship with Him
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- Vaisnavas following the path of Sri Narada and his successors endeavor to establish a personal relationship with the Lord by receiving the grace of a bona fide spiritual master through initiation
- Vedanta-sutra establishes the relationship between the living entity and the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the importance of devotional service in ultimately achieving love of Godhead
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- We can become a direct servant of Krsna, or in the highest stages we can become Krsna's father, mother or lover. Krsna is prepared to establish a loving relationship with all living entities
- We do not care for Moslem, Christian, this or that. We see everyone as part and parcel of Krsna, and as such they should re-establish their loving relationship with Krsna
- When 1 marries, he automatically establishes a relationship with the spouse's family. Similarly, if we reestablish our original relationship with Krsna, we'll establish our true relationship with everyone else. That is the ground for real universal love
- When one’s relationship with the Supreme Lord is established, the next program is to act in that relationship. This is called abhidheya, or activity in relationship with the Lord
- When this (relationship with Krsna) is established, Krsnadasa begins to worship the functional Deity, Govinda. Govinda resides eternally in Vrndavana
- When we reestablish our relationship with Krsna, the questions of universal brotherhood, justice, peace and prosperity will be answered. There is no possibility of realizing these higher ideals without Krsna