Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Quotes

“The art of focusing one’s attention on the Supreme and giving one’s love to Him is called Kṛṣṇa consciousness.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

“We have seen many rich persons, many powerful persons, many famous persons, many beautiful persons, many learned and scholarly persons, and persons in the renounced order of life unattached to material possessions. But we have never seen any one person who is unlimitedly and simultaneously wealthy, powerful, famous, beautiful, wise and unattached, like Kṛṣṇa, in the history of humanity. Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is a historical person who appeared on this earth 5,000 years ago. He stayed on this earth for 125 years and played exactly like a human being, but His activities were unparalleled. From the very moment of His appearance to the moment of His disappearance, every one of His activities is unparalleled in the history of the world, and therefore anyone who knows what we mean by Godhead will accept Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. No one is equal to the Godhead, and no one is greater than Him. That is the import of the familiar saying “God is great.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

“one should always keep himself near You by the process of hearing and chanting Your transcendental glories.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta, Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

“They secretly thought that Krsna must not be an ordinary boy, but some demigod.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta, Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

“When the florist was offered benedictions, he begged from the Lord that he might remain His eternal servant in devotional service and by such service do good to all living creatures. By this, it is clear that a devotee of the Lord in Kṛṣṇa consciousness should not be satisfied simply by his own advancement in devotional service; he must be willing to work for the welfare of all others.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

“Although the minds of those who are devotees of the demigods are fixed on a particular demigod, because You are the Supersoul of all living entities, including the demigods, worship of the demigods indirectly goes to You.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

“one is attractive due to (1) wealth, (2) power, (3) fame, (4) beauty, (5) wisdom and (6) renunciation.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

“mama ratna-vaṇig-bhāvaṁ  ratnāny aparicinvataḥ hasantu santo jihremi  na sva-svānta-vinoda-kṛt “The saintly devotees may laugh at me for becoming a jewel merchant though I know nothing about precious jewels. But I feel no shame, for at least I may entertain them.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Srimad-Bhagavatam, Tenth Canto

“Kṛṣṇa can perfectly reciprocate one’s loving propensities in different relationships called mellows, or rasas. Basically there are twelve loving relationships. One can love Kṛṣṇa as the supreme unknown, as the supreme master, the supreme friend, the supreme child, the supreme lover. These are the five basic love rasas. One can also love Kṛṣṇa indirectly in seven different relationships, which are apparently different from the five primary relationships. All in all, however, if one simply reposes his dormant loving propensity in Kṛṣṇa, then his life becomes successful. This is not a fiction but is a fact that can be realized by practical application. One can directly perceive the effects that love for Kṛṣṇa has on his life.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

“The whole world is very eager to satisfy the dormant propensity of love for others, but the various invented methods like socialism, communism, altruism, humanitarianism and nationalism, along with whatever else may be manufactured for the peace and prosperity of the world, are all useless and frustrating because of our gross ignorance of the art of loving Kṛṣṇa. Generally people think that by advancing the cause of moral principles and religious rites they will be happy. Others may think that happiness can be achieved by economic development, and yet others think that simply by sense gratification they will be happy. But the real fact is that people can be happy only by loving Kṛṣṇa.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

“When one waters the root of a tree, he automatically waters the branches, twigs, leaves and flowers; when one supplies food to the stomach through the mouth, he satisfies all the various parts of the body.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead