Top 100 Krishna's Quotes
#1. A pharaoh's profile, a Krishna's grace, tail like a question mark.
Louis MacNeice
#2. By only becoming aware of Krishna's greatness we can become aware of our minuteness. That's the way to become Humble.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#3. Sri Krishna's message is the message of anyone who comes from far away. His message is the same as Buddha, Lao Tsu, Bodhidharma, Milarepa, Padmasambhava.
Frederick Lenz
#4. Jane sneezed three hundred dollars' worth of coke into the air.
Krishna's black eyes seem to have mirrors in them. She glances at me with a smile as big as the Cheshire Cat's.
Anthea Carson
#5. Don't let a breath escape from your body without Krishna's name. That should be our determination throughout our life.
Radhanath Swami
#6. Existence is governed by its own law. Here, the things impermanent by nature
are bound to meet their end. Hence, with the passage of time, not only Ravana's
Lanka but "Krishna's" Dwarka also sinks.
Deep Trivedi
#7. When we speak of the dust of the lotus feet of the Spiritual Master, we are speaking of humble approach to serve his instructions. Unless we humbly serve the instructions of the great soul, it is Krishna's arrangement the He never reveals Himself.
Radhanath Swami
#8. We get sufferings in life so that we become sober and listen to Krishna's message.
Radhanath Swami
#9. It's not how long but how well you lived which matters.
Krishna Saagar
#10. It was Vyasa's genius to take the whole great Mahabharata epic and see it as metaphor for the perennial war between the forces of light and the forces of darkness in every human heart.
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
#11. Arjuna is a warrior of great renown, says he won't fight. He tells Krishna: I can't fight because I love these people. It's immoral. It's unjust. There's no winning.
Frederick Lenz
#12. In spiritual life, one must conduct one's whole life under the guidance of the guru. Only one who executes his spiritual life under the direction of the spiritual master can achieve the mercy of Krishna.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
#13. What Sri Krishna is saying, is that it's a terrible mistake to believe that this life we lead is real. Obviously it's real, but it doesn't last very long in its realness. It's very ephemeral and to mistaken the forms of life, the shapes that life takes, for reality, is not wise.
Frederick Lenz
#14. On the Path, it's impossible to know how you are doing because it's the judger who is disappearing.
Krishna Das
#15. Krishna suprises Arjuna. He says go fight, go kill. Do this because it's only play money. You can't kill your friends any more than they can kill you.
Frederick Lenz
#16. Failure is when you accept it, otherwise it's just another obstacle.
Krishna Saagar
#17. We all inhabit our lives, in different ways to some degree. We see ourselves a certain way, and based on how we see ourselves, that's how we see the world.
Krishna Das
#18. Krishna says, fight. He says, go out on the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill; and whether they were your friends or not, you have to look at the big picture. In the big picture, you can't go kill anybody, you can't be killed.
Frederick Lenz
#19. All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That's the way we go through our lives. Everybody.
Krishna Das
#20. We cannot choose who we love. We only choose how to live with the pain that comes of it.
Krishna Udayasankar
#21. Failure often happens because we fail to recognize our strengths and our weaknesses.' Krishna
Kavita Kane
#23. You can't think yourself out of a box that's made of your thoughts.
Krishna Das
#24. I didn't know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real.
Krishna Das
#25. In its totality, a raga is a combination of musical heritage, technical elements, emotional charge, cognitive understanding and aural identity.
T.M. Krishna
#26. It makes no difference whether you worship God, Jehovah, Allah, Mohammed, Buddha, Christ or Krishna- it is still and always one and the same God.
Satyananda Saraswati
#27. At sunset, on the river ban, Krishna
Loved her for the last time and left ...
That night in her husband's arms, Radha felt
So dead that he asked, What is wrong,
Do you mind my kisses, love? And she said,
Not not at all, but thought, What is
It to the corpse if the maggots nip?
Kamala Suraiyya Das
#28. A Christian must worship the Self as Christ, not Christ as Christ. A Muslim must worship the Self as Mohammed, not Mohammed as Mohammed. A Hindu must worship the Self as Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.
Abhijit Naskar
#29. I, on the other hand, felt as I always have, like I were water seeping from a broken pot; I existed but had no form to hold me in place.
Krishna Udayasankar
#30. I mope around less. It is horrible. I miss it.
Krishna Das
#31. O voyagers, O seamen,
You who came to port, and you whose bodies
Will suffer the trial and judgement of the sea,
Or whatever event, this is your real destination.'
So Krishna, as when he admonished Arjuna
On the field of battle.
Not fare well,
But fare forward, voyagers.
T. S. Eliot
#32. When one's mind dwells on the objects of Senses, fondness for them grows on him, from fondness comes desire, from desire anger. Anger leads to bewilderment, bewilderment to loss of memory of true Self, and by that intelligence is destroyed, and with the destruction of intelligence he perishes.
Lord Krishna
#34. Performing the duty prescribed by (one's own) nature, one incurreth no sin.
Anonymous
#35. Let's just chant and be good people, alright?
Krishna Das
#36. Devotion is a way of being, it's not something you do. It's dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.
Krishna Das
#38. Krishna once said to Arjuna: Consider the past and future with an equal mind, and pass the peanut M&M's.
Frederick Lenz
#39. Bhakti yoga isn't something you join, it's love. It means falling in love.
Krishna Das
#40. If you stub your toe, you don't need to dialog yourself to be good to your foot, do you? When you see things that clearly, there's no dialogue or emotional manipulation that you need to do to extend compassion to that being, because that being is a part of you, and if that being hurts, you hurt.
Krishna Das
#41. Compassion is a college education. It's a doctorate.
Krishna Das
#42. Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It's an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it's a way of being present in the moment.
Krishna Das
#43. I'm reconnecting, I'm deepening, I'm opening, I'm releasing negativity and negative thoughts and all the limitations I carry around with me - again and again and again and again and again and again. And again! And that's the only thing that keeps me alive.
Krishna Das
#44. The repetition of the holy names reveals a presence hidden within the heart. Something begins to happen that's very disturbing - we get happy.
Krishna Das
#45. I am grateful for the unending hunger to rest in the mind of Buddha, the heart of Krishna, a domain where all yogis, sages, and saints abide, waiting for those whose real self has emerged from the searing pilgrimage of Spirit's flames.
Rod Stryker
#46. The happiness which comes from long practice, which leads to the end of suffering, which at first is like poison, but at last like nectar - this kind of happiness arises from the serenity of one's own mind.
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
#47. When I came to the industry, many directors like Krishna Vamsi and Puri Jagannath had encouraged me a lot. Krishna Vamsi is my mentor, and I admire him. That's why I give chances to new directors.
Ravi Teja
#48. Until you are fully enlightened, you can never know what another person's reality is like for them.
Krishna Das
#49. So long as there are forces of other countries in a place where they have no right to be, irrespective of our rights." (said this to the countries supporting Pakistan's aggression on Kashmir)
Krishna Menon
#50. Whenever I'm really stuck, when I really need to go 'in there,' I sing the Chalisa and that connects me to Maharajji, to Hanuman, to that powerful presence that's deeper than any of that stuff. And, by touching that, I'm able to overcome whatever I'm stuck in ... at least for 10 minutes.
Krishna Das
#51. It's inexplicable why somebody can lose a leg and it doesn't effect them at all emotionally; and another person can lose a foot and be destroyed for the rest of their lives.
Krishna Das
#52. This is what I do to keep my head screwed on semi-straight and keep my heart open. Whenever I sing, that's why I sing. Whether it's at the Grammys, whether it's in the bathroom, whether it's in front of 10,000 people or three people, by my guru's grace, my head stays in that place.
Krishna Das
#53. Sri Krishna refers, of course, to this world as a joyless, transient world. Obviously, he's never been to Disneyland.
Frederick Lenz
#54. I know people within the Hare Krishna community look at pop music as secular, different, and something separate from spiritual music but for me, there's no difference.
Taraka Larson
#55. When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation; there is the same immensity.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#56. If Lord Duryodhana was an evil man, why did great men like Bhishma, Drona, Kripa, Karna, entire army of Krishna fight war on his side??
Anand Neelakantan
#57. Yoga may have originated in India, where the cow has been revered as sacred for thousands of years, but times have changed since Lord Krishna played his flute for the cows of Vrindavan. There are factory farms in India now.
Sharon Gannon
#58. [Krishna answers:] The man who has given up all desires, who desires nothing, not even this life, nor freedom, nor gods, nor work, nor anything.
Swami Vivekananda
#59. We have to learn to love people even if they are not giving you what you want ... and then not take it personally. If you feel hurt, you have to recognize that they are not hurting you because you are you, but because they are them. You have to try not to be so hard on yourself.
Krishna Das
#61. Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified.
'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#62. This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act.
Frederick Lenz
#63. Buddha is a Buddha, a Krishna is a Krishna, and you are you. And you are not in any way less than anybody else. Respect yourself, respect your own inner voice and follow it.
Osho
#66. Krishna says, fight. He says, go out in the battlefield and kill those people whom it's your job to kill.
Frederick Lenz
#67. The ultimate act of power is surrender.
Krishna Das
#68. Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares.
Swami Vivekananda
#69. Krishna placed a finger on his chin. 'Eldest, when you have reached a certain eminence, you must be ready to reach out to a higher eminence; otherwise you will be torn to pieces,'he said.
Kanhaiyalal Maniklal Munshi
#70. It takes two to tango! I need everybody to sing with me.
Krishna Das
#71. Well, the only logical explanation is that all of my clothes shrunk!
Van Krishna
#74. Sri Krishna says whatever role we have in life, we have to play it to the hilt. We have to take it all the way. We have to assume responsibility for our role. To run away from it causes misery.
Frederick Lenz
#75. The road for Arjuna is unexpected. Sri Krishna says you have to face that which you fear the most that which you're most attached to and eliminate it. In this case he has to fight a battle, and the battle is his attachments.
Frederick Lenz
#76. PUBLISHER'S NOTE To seize the knowledge of the UNKNOWABLE needs a language, which is at once symbolically creative, revealingly poetic, infinitely plastic, luminously rhythmic, automatic perception of right relations and their inevitable descent of truth of idea, word and action.
Maa Krishna Sri Aurobindo
#77. Every day and every night, I dance with Jesus Christ, Prophet Mohammad & all personal Gods: Krishna, Shiva & Buddha. You are welcome too !
Santosh Kalwar
#78. When you meet your guru or a being who knows, who is no longer loving, but has become love, a being who is sitting in truth, and in compassion and kindness for all beings - you know. When I met my guru, I knew. And it was before I met him physically, actually.
Krishna Das
#80. The Gita does not decide for us. But if, whenever faced with a moral problem, you give up attachment to the ego and then decide what you should do, you will come to no harm. This is the substance of the argument which Shri Krishna has expanded into 18 chapters.
Mahatma Gandhi
#81. I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that's what I'm doing.
Krishna Das
#82. It doesn't matter. You are what you are. I am what I am. We are the same-when you take the time to remember me.
Christopher Pike
#83. I can not give you the reference of Ram Chandar or Krishna, because they were not historical figures. I can not help it but to present to you the names of (Hazrat) Abu Bakar (RA) and (Hazrat) Umar Farooq (RA). They were leaders of a vast Empire, yet they lived a life of austerity.
Mahatma Gandhi
#84. I am the Atma abiding in the heart of all beings. I am also the beginning, the middle, and the end of all beings.
Anonymous
#85. Krishna is wisdom. You are action. One without another is useless. All your battles you will win only when you are together.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#86. Ramakrishna says, "One who has merely heard of fire has ajnana, ignorance. One who has seen fire has jnana. But one who has actually built a fire and cooked on it has vijnana." In
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
#87. We instantly believe everything we think. Isn't that insane? It's good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else!
Krishna Das
#88. Unless we hear very strictly with great faith to the order of our Spiritual Master, we will not understand what is the mercy of Krishna and how it is coming upon us.
Radhanath Swami
#89. After all, as Edward Tufte once said, "Overload, clutter, and confusion are not attributes of information, they are failures of design.
Golden Krishna
#90. I chant to save my miserable ass. That's what I do.
Krishna Das
#91. Don't give up on your dreams. You can become the person you know you really are.
Krishna Das
#92. The only way you can conquer me is through love and there I am gladly conquered
Gopi Krishna
#93. We [with Nimai Larson] listened to hardly any music except Hare Krishna music growing up and the occasional Garth Brooks that our babysitter would play for us. From a very early age, we looked at music as mantra based, very cyclical, and having no linear time.
Taraka Larson
#94. No heart that holds onto a right desire can tread the road of loss
Gopi Krishna
#96. Enlightenment is represented by Sri Krishna, who is said to be an avatar.
Frederick Lenz
#97. Bliss is easy, just take a drug. What is hard is feeling good about our real selves.
Krishna Das
#98. Law is not a trade, not briefs, not merchandise, and so the heaven of commercial competition should not vulgarize the legal profession.
V. R. Krishna Iyer
#100. Who better represents us, other than our Gods and their stories?" "What
Bala Krishna
