Category:Our Hearts (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
The instructions compiled in this category reveal the profound science of spiritual purification and the awakening of pure devotion. The founder of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement explained that the heart is the central seat of both material contamination and spiritual realization. By engaging the senses in practical devotional service—such as sweeping the temple or dressing the Deities—a practitioner directly scrubs the accumulated dirt from their consciousness. Furthermore, he emphasized that the Supreme Lord is intimately situated within the heart of every living being as the Antaryāmī, ready to supply guidance, intelligence, and inspiration to anyone who approaches Him with genuine sincerity.
- The Cleansing Power of Practical Service: Engaging in menial tasks, such as washing the temple floor or maintaining cleanliness, is a direct, practical method for sweeping material contamination from the heart.
- Decorating the Heart Through Deity Worship: The external act of dressing and beautifully decorating the Deities has an immediate internal reflection, gradually decorating the devotee’s own heart with spiritual qualities.
- The Inner Guidance of the Supersoul: Kṛṣṇa is seated within the heart of all living entities as the Caitya-guru, and He actively provides the necessary intelligence and direction to those who are constantly engaged in His loving service.
- Sincerity and Open-Heartedness: The fundamental requirement for pleasing the Lord is not wealth or vast education, but a pure, unmotivated, and sincere heart; similarly, true love between devotees requires open and honest dealings.
- Continuous Spiritual Immersion: By chanting twenty-four hours a day and keeping the mind absorbed in transcendental literature, a devotee effectively keeps the Lord within their heart, ensuring spiritual success.
- Embracing the Preaching Mission: Taking the movement to one's "heart of hearts" by vigorously working to spread spiritual knowledge brings immense satisfaction to the spiritual master and ensures the future of the mission.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: How Prabhupāda Guides His Disciples to Purify Their Hearts.
Pages in category "Our Hearts (Disciples of SP)"
The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
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- I am so happy that the Krishna Consciousness movement is attracting young innocent hearts of America. From this I can think that the future of this movement is very hopeful
- I am very glad that you have taken my request to heart and that you are now preaching in so many nice ways. This is very satisfying to me
- I have given this idea all along - why you big leaders do not understand it? You should take it to heart as a guiding principle that somehow or other we always please Krishna by doing what is practical and necessary, according to time and place
- I pray to Krsna that I am inviting You to come, so please, because You are seated in their hearts, please give them the intelligence how to serve you so that You may not be inconvenienced
- I take it for granted that you are one of the selected devotees of Lord Caitanya, and therefore from within your heart He has inspired you to go to such a distant place, leaving your parents and home, just to satisfy Krsna
- If I love you and if I have got some secrecy, I don't disclose to you, that is not perfect love. I must deal with you open-hearted, you must deal with me open-hearted, then there is love
- If sun can penetrate within your room, cannot Krsna penetrate within your heart and room and every corner?
- If you chant always, twenty-four hours, without any payment, so it will cleanse. It will cleanse your heart so that you will be able to analyze your position, God's position, the world's position, your relationship, your activities
- If you have got always within your heart Krsna, by sound or by mental thoughts, by work, some way or other, by reading books, any way, if simply you keep your consciousness in Krsna, then your life is successful. That's all
- If you keep your heart in that attitude, that you want to become a pure and sincere devotee, you must be a sincere devotee. And Krishna will help you. You have to keep your heart in that way, that is your business
- If you think of me and work for me, then I am in your heart. If you love somebody he is in your heart
- If your heart is pure. Everything depends on purity
- In conclusion to your letter you have asked as to where is the ocean of love? And I think that you may know that it is in your heart
- In Melbourne, Australia who dreamt that there would be such a nice temple, Radha-Krsna, and that local men would be worshiping. And still anyone who is sincerely serving, he will get inspiration how to do it nicely. Krsna is there in his heart
- Information we get from Bhagavad-gita, that God is sitting within your heart. That is a fact. Not only within your heart, my heart, the animal's heart - everyone, sarva-bhutanam. Sarva-bhutanam means - Of all living entities
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- Krishna has got some plan for you, always think in that way, and very soon He will provide everything to your heart's desire
- Krsna is very kind. He is helping you in different ways. He is within your heart. Krsna is within your heart. Antaryami. Caitya-guru. And He is presenting Himself as spiritual master both ways, externally, internally. He is trying to help you
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- The more one can meet opposite elements successfully the more one is supposed to be advanced in KC. To a sincere heart Krishna gives all intelligence to combat such dialogues. Be sincere servant of Krishna and Krishna gives you everything
- The more we keep the deities nicely dressed and decorated, the more your heart will be decorated. This is the science. If you neglect the decoration of the deity, then your heart will be gradually blackened
- The more you keep the temple cleansed, the more your heart becomes clean. The more you feed the Deity sumptuously, you also feel very satisfaction. This is the way
- The secret of success is that one should be eager to serve the Spiritual Master and Krsna simultaneously with the same regard and things will become automatically revealed in the heart of the devotee
- To talk with a person is not mixing. You see? Mixing means, intimate mixing, there are six symptoms. When you eat, when you call him to eat, when you give, when you take, when you talk your heart, when you hear his heart. These are called intimate mixing
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- We should always pray that Krishna may kindly provide me the intelligence to kill all demons of doubt, and because He understands the heart of His sincere devotee, immediately He gives assistance
- When you enter into the Krsna science you get so much volumes of transcendental knowledge, and we are trying to present before you this knowledge in so many ways, by cleansing your heart from this material contamination
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- You should know that it is all due to your sincerity of heart; when we are sincere, Krishna will always help us, either in external direction by the Spiritual Master, or internally by His Paramatma expansion
- You simply work. You simply wash this temple and sweep this temple regularly with heart and soul - you become perfect. You don't require even to read. So dasyam. Dasyam means simply work as menial servant of Krsna