Category:In The Heart
Theme Analysis
These collected quotes reveal the heart as a central field of spiritual life, where the soul is situated, the Supersoul gives direction, material attachment forms a knot, and devotional service brings purification. In these teachings, Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the heart may be affected by lust, ignorance, desire, and material bondage, yet it can also become the place where Kṛṣṇa consciousness is firmly fixed. Through hearing, chanting, loving service, and realization of the Supersoul, the darkness within the heart is removed and the living being awakens to devotional understanding.
- The Presence of the Supersoul: The Supreme Lord is present in the heart of every living entity as Paramātmā, guiding the soul and remaining seated with the living being throughout material existence.
- The Soul's Position Within the Body: The living entity is situated in the heart and illuminates the entire body through consciousness, just as the sun situated in one place illuminates the universe.
- The Purification of the Heart: When loving service, chanting, and proper hearing about Kṛṣṇa enter the heart, the effects of lust, ignorance, passion, and sinful reactions are gradually removed.
- The Knot of Material Attachment: Material attraction tightens the knot in the heart, but spiritual realization and devotional engagement pierce that knot and end the chain of fruitive action.
- Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Fixed Within: Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes that the devotee should keep Kṛṣṇa consciousness firmly established in the heart while progressing in humility, service, and remembrance of the Lord.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Supersoul in the Heart Awakens Devotional Realization.
Subcategories
This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
Pages in category "In The Heart"
The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
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- Adi-kavi means Brahma. Brahma, Adi-kavi. So tene brahma. Brahma means sabda-brahman, Vedic literature. So Krsna instructed or imparted in the heart of Brahma
- As soon as irrevocable loving service is established in the heart, the effects of nature's modes of passion and ignorance, such as lust, desire and hankering, disappear from the heart. Then the devotee is established in goodness
- As the sun is situated in one place, but is illuminating the whole universe, so a small particle of spirit soul, although situated in the heart of this body, is illuminating the whole body by consciousness. BG 1972 purports
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- I have explained tonight in the temple meeting that Krishna does not live in Vaikuntha nor does He live in the hearts of the yogi. But He lives there where His pure devotees chant His glories
- If you repeatedly chant, it will remain. It will always remain in your heart
- In the heart it (secretion) becomes reddish, blood, and the blood is transfused or transported to different parts of the body through the veins. There is a big mechanical arrangement undoubtedly. Every scientist or every sane man will admit
- Instance of neutral ecstatic love in the heart of a child
- It is from Hiranyanabha that the great saint Yajnavalkya learned the highly elevated system of mystic yoga known as adhyatma-yoga, which can loosen the knots of material attachment in the heart
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- Just as a king is seated on a chariot, the living entity is seated in the body. The sitting place is the heart, and the living entity sits there and engages in the struggle for existence, which goes on without progress perpetually
- Just below the abdomen and navel, is the mani-puraka-cakra. When upper space is further searched out in the heart, one reaches the anahata-cakra, and further up, when the life air is placed at the root of the palate, one reaches the visuddhi-cakra
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- Sarvasya means everything, the Supersoul. Sarvasya ca aham. Krsna says: "I," hrdi, "in the heart." When it is called hrdi, that means living entity. Without living entity, there cannot be any heart
- Seed of love for Krsna grows in the heart
- Simultaneously He (God) is present as the Supersoul, an expansion of Baladeva, in the heart of all living entities
- Sometimes in the heart of a neophyte there is attraction for karma, jnana or yoga. When he is free and transcendental to mixed devotional activity, he becomes a second-class devotee
- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu recommended that Raghunatha dasa keep his Krsna consciousness firmly fixed in his heart while externally behaving like an ordinary man. This is a trick for everyone advanced in Krsna consciousness
- Sri Krsna Himself says, "I am not there in My abode, or in the heart of the meditating yogi but where my pure devotees are singing." We can feel the presence of Krsna as we actually make progress
- Supreme Personality of Godhead, who, in His Paramatma feature, is present everywhere, even in the heart of every living being
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- The holy name of Krsna can drive away all the darkness of ignorance that arises in the heart due to greatly sinful activities performed in previous lives
- The isvara, the supreme controller of the world, is seated in the heart of everyone. Not only is He in everyone's heart, but He is also present within the atom
- The Lord's name, form, quality, pastimes, entourage, etc., as they are described in the revealed scriptures or as performed in the Vaikunthalokas, far, far beyond the material cosmic manifestation, are factually being televised in the heart of the devotee
- The Lord, in His Supersoul feature, always stays in the heart along with the living entity
- The problem which arose in the heart of Arjuna on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra was solved by the teachings of the Bhagavad-gita
- The Supersoul is in the heart of every living entity, but He can be realized only by a soul who is repentant
- The World Sankirtana Party should consist of members who can impress spiritual ecstasy in the hearts of the people so that some of them may come forward and agree to establish a center where the Sankirtana party may go on continually
- This material world is an atmosphere of attraction between male and female. That attraction takes the shape of a knot in the heart, and by material affection it becomes still more tight
- Those who already know that the soul is separate from the body, who are liberated from the invincible knot in the heart, who are always engaged in welfare activities for all living entities and who never contemplate harming anyone...
- Thus the knot in the heart is pierced, and all misgivings are cut to pieces. The chain of fruitive actions is terminated when one sees the self as master.