Category:Attention on Krsna
Theme Analysis
The fundamental problem of conditioned life is that the living entity's attention is diverted away from the Supreme Lord and scattered among temporary material objects. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is specifically designed to correct this by teaching the art of focusing one's attention entirely on Śrī Kṛṣṇa. As Śrīla Prabhupāda explains, this is the actual purpose of all mystic yoga systems. An ideal yogī does not meditate on a void; rather, they concentrate their attention on the beautiful form of Śyāmasundara, who is effulgent like the sun and decorated with flower garlands.
Diverting even a fraction of one's attention toward Kṛṣṇa yields immense spiritual benefit, immediately enabling a person to begin achieving the highest perfection of life. The Vedic literatures, particularly the Upaniṣads, indirectly draw our attention to Kṛṣṇa, whereas the Bhagavad-gītā points to Him directly. By turning our attention to His service and pastimes, we force ourselves to give up all anarthas (unwanted things) and material entanglements. Even if this attention is drawn to Kṛṣṇa out of lust, fear, or enmity—as seen in the histories of various demons—the purificatory result is still immense. However, the ultimate perfection is one-pointed, steady attention driven by unalloyed love, the standard set by the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas who refuse to flicker their attention toward demigod worship.
The highest standard of this rapt attention is exhibited by the residents of Vṛndāvana. When Kṛṣṇa plays His flute, not only the gopīs but also the birds, cranes, swans, and even great demigods like Lord Śiva and Lord Brahmā are captivated, listening with completely undivided attention. The members of the Yadu dynasty demonstrated how to apply this practically in daily life; they performed their bodily and royal duties mechanically, while their actual attention remained permanently fixed on Kṛṣṇa. Whether as an exalted queen in Dvārakā personally serving the Lord, or a great warrior like Bhīṣmadeva fixing his eyes on Kṛṣṇa at the moment of death, the perfection of existence is to completely absorb one's attention in the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- The True Purpose of Yoga: Mystic yoga is not meant for physical health or void meditation, but for concentrating the mind fully on the beautiful form of Kṛṣṇa.
- The Cure for Material Entanglement: Simply turning one's attention back to Kṛṣṇa and His transcendental pastimes purifies the heart and frees the soul from māyā.
- The Standard of Pure Devotion: Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas maintain steady, unflinching attention on Kṛṣṇa, rejecting the flickering practice of worshiping various demigods.
- The Supreme Example: The residents of Vṛndāvana and Dvārakā perfectly demonstrate how to keep one's attention entirely fixed on the Lord, whether in ecstatic trance or amidst daily duties.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Attention on Kṛṣṇa - The Art of Spiritual Concentration.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Pages in category "Attention on Krsna"
The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total.
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- After repeating obeisances for a long time, Brahma stood up and smeared his hands over his eyes. Seeing the Lord before him, he, trembling, began to offer prayers with great respect, humility and attention
- All the cranes and swans in the water are being enchanted by the melodious song of Krsna's flute. They have approached and are worshiping the S P of Godhead with full attention. Alas, they are closing their eyes and are becoming completely silent
- Although each and every queen had thousands of maidservants engaged for her service, the queens were all personally attentive in serving Krsna. Each one of them used to receive Krsna personally when He entered the palace
- Although Krsna assumed the four-armed form of Narayana, He could not attract the serious attention of the gopis in ecstatic love
- An impersonalist lamenting, "I have not given any proper attention to Sri Krsna, who is the source of the impersonal Brahman and who is the reservoir of all transcendental pleasures"
- Another young gopi told her mother, "My dear mother, the birds, who are all looking at Krsna playing on His flute, are sitting very attentively on the branches and twigs of different trees"
- Anyone who is trying to divert people's attention from Krsna to non-Krsna . . . that is the business of the modern so-called philosophers and educationists or religionists
- As soon as you divert your attention to Krsna, that is love
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- Diverting even a little of one's attention toward Krsna and activities in Krsna consciousness immediately enables one to achieve the highest perfection of life. This is the purpose of the Krsna consciousness movement
- Drona and Dhara said "When we take birth again within the universe, may the Supreme Lord Krsna in His most attractive feature of childhood absorb our whole attention"
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- Great mahatmas like Bhismadeva realize all the different features of Lord Sri Krsna, and therefore they worship Lord Krsna with one-pointed attention, knowing Him as the origin of all features
- Great yogis like Lord Siva, Lord Brahma or even Lord Sesa and others always try to fix their attention upon Krsna in their hearts, but here the gopis actually saw Krsna seated before them on their cloths
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- I have no objections if your wife and you go to San Francisco and live there peacefully as man and wife concentrating your attention for Krishna Consciousness
- If we turn our attention to Krsna's service, to bhakti-yoga, we can force ourselves to give up all anarthas, unwanted things
- It is clearly stated in this verse that anyone who addresses the Lord (Krsna) immediately attracts the attention of the Lord, who always remains obliged to him
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- Krsna, out of His causeless mercy, He appears to teach us how to divert your attention and asakti to Krsna. So dharmasya glani, deviation in the path of religious system, means to forget our eternal relationship with Krsna
- Kuntidevi, therefore, is pointing our attention toward Krsna, the Supreme Person, who is alaksya, invisible to all. Who is that invisible person? Here - Krsna
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- O great sage (Vyasadeva), as soon as I (Narada) got a taste for the Personality of Godhead (Krsna), my attention to hear of the Lord was unflinching
- Of course, as individuals, we have sometimes disagreements, but that should be adjusted keeping our central attention to Krishna
- Offering his obeisances to Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya said, "Namo narayanaya" ("I offer my obeisances to Narayana"). In return, Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, "Krsne matir astu" ("Let your attention be on Krsna")
- One gopi told mother Yasoda, "When He (Krsna) plays (the flute), either in the morning or in the evening, all the demigods, including Lord Siva, Brahma, Indra and Candra, bow their heads and listen with great attention"
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- Sanatana Gosvami comments that because the desires of devotees whose attention is fixed on Krsna have already been fulfilled, the Lord's sidelong glances create variegated desires in relation to Krsna and devotional service
- Seeing the Lord before him, Brahma began to offer prayers with great humility, respect and attention
- Since their (gopis) attention is fixed on Krsna’s flute, they cannot divert their minds to any other subject
- Sri Bhismadeva attained the perfection of quitting his body at will and was fortunate enough to have Lord Krsna, the object of his attention, personally present at the time of death. He therefore fixed his open eyes upon Him
- Sri Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, one of the six Gosvamis of Vrndavana, has written in his prayers called the Manah-siksa that one should simply worship Radha and Krsna with all attention
- Such (a yogi in samadhi) devotee of the Lord engages himself twenty-four hours daily in the service of the Lord so that his whole attention is engrossed with the thoughts of the Lord in ninefold devotional service
- Sukadeva Gosvami also, in order to draw attention to the fact that among all visnu-tattva forms Lord Krsna is one hundred percent the Supreme Personality of Godhead, narrated the story of an incident which took place when Lord Krsna was present
- Sukadeva Gosvami told the King, "Now hear of this secret with attention. After saving His friends from the mouth of Aghasura and killing the demon, Lord Krsna brought His friends to the bank of the Yamuna and addressed them as follows"
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- The actual purpose of mystic yoga is to concentrate one's attention fully on the Personality of Godhead, Krsna, and always think of Him - mad-gatenantaratmana
- The art of focusing one's attention on the Supreme and giving one's love to Him is called Krsna consciousness
- The child became angry because He (Krsna) was hungry and His mother was not paying attention to Him. So He lifted His legs and began to kick His lotus feet just like an ordinary child
- The ideal yogi concentrates his attention on Krsna, who is called Syamasundara, who is as beautifully colored as a cloud, whose lotus-like face is as effulgent as the sun, whose dress is brilliant with jewels and whose body is flower garlanded. BG 1972 p
- The intelligence of a living entity who does not turn his attention toward Krsna or the Krsna consciousness movement simply changes dresses like a prostitute. What is the benefit of such foolish intelligence?
- The members of the Yadu dynasty acted automatically for their bodily necessities, but their actual attention was always fixed on Krsna. Their bodily activities were performed mechanically, but their minds were always absorbed in Krsna
- The Upanisads indirectly draw our attention to the primeval Lord, Sri Krsna, but the Bhagavad-gita, which is the summary of all the Upanisads, directly points to Sri Krsna
- The whole principle of spiritual life is to turn our attention back to Krishna, and thus immediately be freed from all entanglements of Maya
- They (Krsna and Balarama) were beautifully dressed, and They were attractive to all the people assembled there. They were dressed as if They were going to act on a dramatic stage, and They drew the attention of all people
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- We Gaudiya Vaishnavas, under the guidance of Lord Chaitanya, want steady attention for Krishna, not flickering. Therefore, in our line of thoughts and action there is no scope for worshiping any other demigods
- We Gaudiya Vaisnavas, under the guidance of Lord Caitanya, want steady attention for Krishna, not flickering. Therefore, in our line of thoughts and action there is no scope for worshiping any other demigods
- We're hankering after the beautiful, the powerful, the learned, the wealthy. Krsna is the reservoir of all of this, so we need only turn our attention toward Him, and we will get everything. Everything - whatever we want
- When the gopis appeared to be a little bit disturbed and angry from hearing the free advice of Krsna, they diverted their attention to looking at the beauty of the forest
- Whether one thinks of Krsna as an ordinary human child, as the source of the Brahman effulgence, as the origin of Paramatma, or as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one should concentrate one's full attention upon the lotus feet of Krsna
- With attention and devotion, he worshiped Krsna and all the greatly fortunate brahmanas who were free from material desires