Krishna Katha - Verse for meditation - 01/06/2011 - 06/06/2011

SB 11.20.27-28

jata-sraddho mat-kathasu
nirvinnah sarva-karmasu
veda duhkhatmakan kaman
parityage 'py anisvarah

 

tato bhajeta mam pritah
sraddhalur drdha-niscayah
jusamanas ca tan kaman
duhkhodarkams ca garhayan

 

Having awakened faith in the narrations of My glories, being disgusted with all material activities, knowing that all sense gratification leads to misery, but still being unable to renounce all sense enjoyment, My devotee should remain happy and worship Me with great faith and conviction. Even though he is sometimes engaged in sense enjoyment, My devotee knows that all sense gratification leads to a miserable result, and he sincerely repents such activities.

Lord Krsna

SB 11.20.31

tasman mad-bhakti-yuktasya
yogino vai mad-atmanah
na jñanam na ca vairagyam
prayah sreyo bhaved iha

 

Therefore, for a devotee engaged in My loving service, with mind fixed on Me, the cultivation of knowledge and renunciation is generally not the means of achieving the highest perfection within this world.

Lord Krsna

 

SB 11.20.32-33

yat karmabhir yat tapasa
jñana-vairagyatas ca yat
yogena dana-dharmena
sreyobhir itarair api

 

sarvam mad-bhakti-yogena
mad-bhakto labhate 'ñjasa
svargapavargam mad-dhama
kathañcid yadi vañchati

 

Everything that can be achieved by fruitive activities, penance, knowledge, detachment, mystic yoga, charity, religious duties and all other means of perfecting life is easily achieved by My devotee through loving service unto Me. If somehow or other My devotee desires promotion to heaven, liberation, or residence in My abode, he easily achieves such benedictions.

Lord Krsna