Category:Aware of Krsna
Theme Analysis
To be "aware of Kṛṣṇa" is the highest stage of realization, surpassing even the awareness of Brahman. Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that this specific awareness is the litmus test for a bona fide guru. Regardless of social status, anyone fully aware of the science of Kṛṣṇa is qualified to be a spiritual master. This awareness is not a mental construct but a revealed truth attained through bhakti-yoga, chanting the mahā-mantra, and studying the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. It liberates the devotee from the modes of material nature and ensures that upon leaving the body, they do not take birth again but return to the eternal abode.
- The Test of a Guru: A spiritual master is not defined by birth or dress, but by their awareness of Kṛṣṇa. If one speaks on behalf of Kṛṣṇa and knows His mission, they are a guru.
- The Process: One becomes aware of Kṛṣṇa not by speculation but by service. Reading the instructions to Sanātana Gosvāmī and chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa are the prescribed methods.
- Transcendent Vision: An advanced devotee sees Kṛṣṇa everywhere—in the taste of water, the sunshine, and the Deity. They are not misled by false incarnations who show a little magic.
- The Final Goal: The perfection of human life is to remain always aware of Kṛṣṇa. This consciousness breaks the cycle of birth and death (tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti).
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Fully Aware of Kṛṣṇa - The Qualification of a Guru.
Pages in category "Aware of Krsna"
The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
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- All the recommended activities for spiritual realization end in Krsna consciousness, in thinking always of Krsna. The actual perfection of human life lies, being always Krsna conscious & always being aware of Krsna while performing all types of activities
- Anyone completely aware of the science of Krsna, regardless of his status in life, is a guru. Thus Prahlada Maharaja is a guru in all circumstances
- As stated in Bhagavad-gita (BG 18.55), the S.P. of Godhead can only be partially known, and only by the process of devotional service to the Lord. Lord Brahma became aware that the Supreme Lord Krsna has many, many eternal, blissful forms of knowledge
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- If you are actually learned, if you are proud of becoming vedanti, or knowledge in Vedanta, then you must be aware of Krsna
- If you take to the process of this krsna-yoga, or bhakti-yoga, then you can become aware of Krsna very easily
- It is clear that the sages of Dandakaranya desired conjugal love in the manner of the gopis, although they were well aware of the Supreme Lord as both Krsna and Lord Ramacandra
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- One should either chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra or read Srimad-Bhagavatam and thereby try to understand the characteristics and instructions of the Supreme Lord, in this way one can become fully aware of the transcendental nature of the SPG
- One who is aware of Krsna, what is Krsna, he is above brahmana - brahmana qualification is already there, because a brahmana means one who knows Krsna, Para-brahman. That is brahmana. Brahma janatiti brahmanah
- One who represents someone else must fully know that person's mission. The devotees in the Krsna consciousness movement must therefore be fully aware of the mission of Krsna and Lord Caitanya; otherwise they will be considered foolish
- One who speaks on behalf of Krsna, he is guru. That is guru. This is the test: whether he is aware of Krsna. Then he is guru. Otherwise he's not guru
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- The devotees, who are aware of His (Krsna's) transcendental form, render Him service; therefore the Lord also reciprocates by His causeless mercy and thus delivers His devotees from all distresses
- The gopis said, "He (Krsna) has disappeared because of our pride." The gopis were aware of the reason for Krsna's sudden disappearance
- The less intelligent men, who are unaware of His (Krsna's) transcendental form, describe Him as impersonal Brahman. But Brahman is simply the rays of His transcendental body
- The stage of awareness of Krsna can be attained when one is advanced in Krsna consciousness. Then one can understand that Krsna is present in the Deity, in Bhagavad-gita, in the taste of water, in the sunshine, in the moonshine and in all sound
- Those who are actually engaged in the service of the Lord, he can get instruction from Krsna. Tato mam tattvato jnatva. And when he gets instruction fully, and he is fully aware of Krsna, visate tad anantaram, then merging question comes
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- We have to give up this body, any circumstances. That's a fact. Then such person who has become fully aware of Krsna, tyaktva deham, giving up this body, tyaktva deham punar janma naiti (BG 4.9), he does not take any more birth with another material body
- When the members of a temple go into the streets, they do not do so for their own sake but to distribute Krsna conscious literatures in order to make people aware of Krsna's presence