Entering Krishna’s Family
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta
Swami Prabhupada
Krishna in Vrindavan has got a wonderful family.
He has his father Nanda Maharaja and his mother
Yashoda. He has hundreds and thousands of boyfriends
and girlfriends. The trees, the plants, the
flowers, the fruits, the land, the water, the cows, the
calves — he is surrounded by a wonderful family.
He is not a single person. Suppose we say, “Now the
president is coming.” The president means that he is
not coming alone; he is coming with his secretaries,
ministers, some soldiers, bodyguards, and so many
other people. He is not alone. So if an insignificant
material president is always surrounded by his associates,
you can just imagine the supreme being.
He cannot be alone. That is Krishna. Krishna is
not zero. The çünyavädis say, “Everything is zero
after this.” And the nirviçeñavädis say, “Everything
is like sky.” No. Krishna is an individual, a person.
He says in the second chapter of Bhagavad-gétä,
“My dear Arjuna, you are a person, I am also a
person, and all these soldiers and kings assembled
here are also persons. So don’t think that we were
not always persons in the past, that we are not
persons at present, or that in the future we shall
not be persons. We are all eternally persons.” And
whenever there is a person, there are associates,
there is family, and there is an exchange of love.
That is Krishna consciousness.
This Krishna consciousness movement means
to become trained up to enter Krishna’s wonderful
family. In Krishna’s family there are no sannyäsés.
In the books, have you ever heard about
a sannyäsé in Vrindavan? The material world
means that we are running after false family. But
don’t think that there is no real family life. There
is real family. That is Krishna’s eternal, blissful
family. This Krishna consciousness movement
is meant to train up people to be detached from
false family and to enter into the real family. ·
— From an arrival lecture in Dallas, 3 March 1975..
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