Category:Studying Krsna
Theme Analysis
Studying Kṛṣṇa is not an academic pursuit or an exercise in mental speculation but a sacred science that gradually reveals the unlimited nature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead to the sincere and submissive seeker. Śrīla Prabhupāda consistently warns against the fundamental error of approaching Kṛṣṇa through one's own limited material intelligence — what he vividly calls the "frog standard" — and affirms that Kṛṣṇa can only be understood through the Vedic scriptures, the association of devotees, and the lens of transcendental vision cultivated through devotional service. The study of Kṛṣṇa is inexhaustible, for Kṛṣṇa Himself is unlimited, and every step deeper into this study is a step deeper into Kṛṣṇa consciousness itself.
- The Impossibility of Studying Kṛṣṇa by Material Standards: Kṛṣṇa is not an object of ordinary academic or mental examination. Our senses are limited, our perception is conditioned, and the attempt to measure the unlimited by the limited is compared to a frog trying to calculate the size of the ocean from within a well. Kṛṣṇa is transcendental, and only those with transcendental vision can begin to understand Him as He is.
- The Correct Method - Scripture, Devotion and Self-Revelation: The proper approach to studying Kṛṣṇa is through the Vedic literature, particularly the Bhagavad-gītā and the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and through hearing from those who have studied Him submissively. Kṛṣṇa reveals Himself to the extent that the seeker is qualified, and that partial revelation is already sufficient to transform one's entire life. He who simply studies the sacred conversation of the Bhagavad-gītā worships Kṛṣṇa by his very intelligence.
- The Inexhaustible Nature of Studying Kṛṣṇa: Kṛṣṇa's potencies, pastimes, and personal qualities are unlimited and can never be exhausted by any finite study. The more one studies the pastimes of the Lord, the more one becomes attached to Him. From the analytical study of His person in the Brahma-saṁhitā to the intimate details of His childhood in Vṛndāvana, every angle of study deepens one's absorption in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
- Studying Kṛṣṇa as the Essence of Kṛṣṇa Consciousness: The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is fundamentally a scientific and philosophical mission to understand Kṛṣṇa not sentimentally but with jñāna and vijñāna — knowledge and realized knowledge. By studying Kṛṣṇa through His own words, His activities in this world and the spiritual world, and the testimony of great devotees, one becomes divine, free from material entanglement, and ultimately fit to return to the spiritual world.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Beyond the Frog Standard - Studying Kṛṣṇa through Scripture, Devotion and Transcendental Vision.
Pages in category "Studying Krsna"
The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total.
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- Before writing about Krsna, I request you to learn the science very well. If you live with us and study Krsna in the process then your writing will be very effective and Krsna will bless you
- Brahma-samhita says, so 'py asti yat-prapada-simny avicintya-tattve: still this creation will remain inconceivable to our understanding. And Krsna has created all these things, so how can we study Krsna
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- He who studies this sacred conversation of ours worships Me by his intelligence
- Here (in SB 10.11.58) is an instruction about the result of studying or discussing the krsna-lilas that appear in Srimad-Bhagavatam. Sadyo hrdy avarudhyate 'tra krtibhih susrusubhis tat-ksanat - SB 1.1.2
- His (Krsna's) body is never like a material body. But for some who make a study of Krsna by reading Bhagavad-gita or similar Vedic scriptures, Krsna is a problem. BG 1972 purports
- His hand is like this. His flute is like this. His hair is like this. Eyes are...- Study everything minutely. Then that is meditation, and this will help you to think of Krsna constantly
- How can it be (study of Krsna finish)? Krsna has unlimited energy
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- I declare that he who studies this sacred conversation worships Me by his intelligence. BG 18.70 - 1972
- If anyone is interested to study the science of God, you'll find it in the Vedic literature, how Krsna expands by His plenary portion in different names of God
- If the parents of our devotees study the philosophy of Krishna consciousness there is no doubt they will benefit equally as their children are now doing
- If we scrutinizingly study the life of Krsna, you will find in the history of the world than Krsna there was no richer person than Krsna, no powerful person than Krsna, more learned and person of knowledge, philosophy, than Krsna
- If we study the history of Krsna's life, we shall find that for most of His life He predominantly engaged in killing demons one after another
- In the Brahma-samhita it is said, angani yasya sakalendriya-vrttimanti: Krsna can perform the activities of one limb with any other limb. So by analytical study of Krsna and His person, it is concluded that He is the complete whole
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- Krsna can accommodate an unlimited number of calves and an unlimited measurement of space. This is neither mythological nor false, but if we study Krsna's potency with our limited knowledge, that potency will never be possible to understand
- Krsna conscious person who has studied Krsna only, nothing more, perfectly, then he is fit. This body is not permanent. That's a fact. But tyaktva deham, after giving up this body, no more material body; spiritual body, sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah
- Krsna showed the nature of a small baby and closed His eyes, as if to avoid the face of Putana. This closing of the eyes is interpreted and studied in different ways by the devotees
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- One can study Krsna by studying His personal propensities. Just like the characteristic of the father is manifested in the characteristic of the son, or the son's characteristic is manifested in the father
- Our folly is that we are trying to study Krsna, or God, by our own standard, frog standard. We do not know how great Krsna is, how His potency is great, how He is manufacturing
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- The demigods prayed - Our dear Lord (Krsna), the way of understanding is not to study Your absolute nature, form and activities by mental speculation
- The description of the pastimes of Lord Krsna is so attractive that it automatically gives us an impetus to study repeatedly
- The glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are studied through the three Vedas, the Upanisads, the literature of Sankhya-yoga, and other Vaisnava literature, yet mother Yasoda considered that Supreme Person her ordinary child - SB 10.8.45
- The more we study the pastimes of the Lord, the more we become attached to Him
- The Supreme Personality of Godhead is completely well versed. Krsna just like says: "Yes, I spoke this philosophy millions of years. I remember; you have forgot." There we have to study, how Krsna's brain is
- This (not becoming entangled in material world) can be made possible if we become Krsna conscious by studying Krsna, learning of the transcendental nature of His activities, and understanding how He behaves in this material world & in the spiritual world
- This brahmanda is the creation of Brahma. He is called one of the demigods. So Krsna says, aham adir hi devanam, "I am the beginning of the devatas, demigods." So if you study Krsna in this way, then you become daiva, divine
- This is not ordinary Bhagavata class, not jumping over Krsna's rasa-lila. It is not like that. It is step by step studying what is Krsna, what is this material world
- This is the study of Krsna, that if you become Krsna conscious, a sincere servant of Krsna, don't be agitated by the dangerous condition of this material world. You simply depend on Krsna, and He'll save you
- This study of Krsna's energy is only one side, or a portion only. So in this way, if you go on studying Krsna, that is Krsna consciousness. It is not a bogus thing - "maybe," "perhaps not." Absolutely! It is
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- We have limited perception, and our senses have limited potency, so how can we study Krsna? It is not possible at all. Krsna reveals Himself to a certain extent, and that much is sufficient
- We have to very carefully study Krsna. The Krsna consciousness movement means to understand Krsna very scientifically. It is not sentiment. One must be very philosophically advanced with scientific knowledge, jnanam vijnanam. This is vijnana
- What you will learn about that, by studying the human species? You study Krsna. This is sufficient. There are 400,000 species of life. What will you benefit by studying? The botanist, the geologist, the biologist, they are doing that
- When Krsna Himself speaks about Himself, it is auspicious for all the worlds. To the demons, such explanations by Krsna Himself may appear to be strange because the demons always study Krsna from their own standpoint. BG 1972 purports
- Why do you study Krsna like you? Why do you think that Krsna was like you?
- Why does He come? What are His activities? Where does He come from? Why does He come in the form of a human being? We only have to try to understand this and study Krsna as He explains Himself in Bhagavad-gita. What is the difficulty