Krishna Quotes

“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, The Palace of Illusions

“Sometimes by water
'and sometimes by the wind,
'my random lines on sand will be
'erased. What am I now? A ruddy rage?
'He said losing and winning matters not at all!
'He told! Unbecoming is a part of becoming again...”
― Alok Mishra, Moving for Moksha

“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, Red Dice

“The only way you can conquer me is through love and there I am gladly conquered”
― Krishna

“The truth is always simpler than you can imagine.”
― Christopher Pike, Red Dice

“You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.”
― Swami Vivekananda

“காக்கைச் சிறகினிலே நந்த லாலா!-நின்தன்
கரியநிறந் தோன்று தையே நந்த லாலா!
பார்க்கும் மரங்க ளெல்லாம் நந்த லாலா!-நின்தன்
பச்சை நிறந் தோன்று தையே நந்த லாலா!
கேட்கு மொலியி லெல்லாம் நந்த லாலா!-நின்தன்
கீத மிசக்குதடா நந்த லாலா!
தீக்குள் விரலை வைத்தால் நந்த லாலா!-நின்னைத்
தீண்டு மின்பந் தோன்று தடா நந்த லாலா!”
― Subramaniya Bharathiyar, பாரதியார் கவிதைகள் [Bharathiyar Kavidhaigal]

“One who sees inaction in action and action in inaction- he is a wise man.”
― Gopi Krishna

“It is I who remain seated in the heart of all creatures as the inner controller of all; and it is I who am the source of memory, knowledge and the ratiocinativefaculty. Again, I am the only object worth knowing through the Vedas; I alone am the origin of Vedānta and the knower of the Vedas too. — Krishna; Chapter 15, verse 15”
― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita

“But we should not cling! A plague upon fundamentalists and literalists! I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster - the girls dance and dance and dance with their sweet lord, who has made himself so abundant as to be in the arms of each and every girl. But the moment the girls become possessive, the moment each one imagines that Krishna is her partner alone, he vanishes. So it is that we should not be jealous with God.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Each man has to follow truth as he sees it.”
― K.M.Munshi

“He (Abhimanyu) picked up a chariot wheel and angrily rushed at Drona. His limbs blazed because of the dust raised by the wheels. He was radiant with the chariot wheel raised high in his arms. In that battle, for a short while, Abhimanyu looked beautiful and seemed to replicate the deeds of Vasudeva.”
― Bibek Debroy, The Mahabharata

“But Krishna liked that about her. It had made her… realistic about things. She laughed with the knowledge that it wasn’t meant to last, and cried with the self assurance that it was futile. She was like a glacier, relentless and implacable. But eyeing the letter from Panchal, he reckoned that sometimes even a vast glacier could crack into crevasses under deer hooves.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“Problem is not a Problem, unless you think it is a problem”
― Krishna, Bhagavad Gita

“Nothing is concealed from your gaze.
My heartbeat is merely your flute song.
Fuse your flame with me, dispel this dark,
I'm done with these lifetimes of fooling around.”
― Arundhathi Subramaniam, Wild Women: Seekers, Protagonists and Goddesses in Sacred Indian Poetry

“We both are aware, Madhava, heavens are temporary.”
“So is life. Being temporary doesn’t mean it never existed,”
Krishna replied with a smile.”
― Sapan Saxena, The Oath of Shakuni

“The old must always give way to the new.”
― Sapan Saxena, The Oath of Shakuni

“It’s not about the beginning and end of the journey called life, but the path in between that matters. How you made your and others' journey wonderful with your efforts, learnings, struggles and teachings is all that matters.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Krishna Crux

“It’s not wrong to have Expectations. The reason for worries is wrong expectations from right people in wrong situations or from wrong people in right situations.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Krishna Crux

“But he had no understanding of the virtues of moderation. He had the kind of generous nature that reckoned panic was not something you hoarded for yourself; you shared it with family.”
― Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness

“Even Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, was a believer of Bhagwat Gita and quoted the Shloka 32 (Chapter 11) that actual meant, "Time I am; destroyer of the worlds." whereas he mis-translated TIME as DEATH.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Krishna Crux

“The religious wars between the Hindus and Moslems and Christians and non-Christians were all conducted on the basis of ignorance. One who is in knowledge knows that God is one; He cannot be Moslem, Hindu or Christian.
It is our imagination that God is such and such and such and such. That is all imagination. The real wise man knows that God is transcendental. When we leave the body, God also goes with us, and when we take on another body, He goes with us there just to see what we are doing.
The wise man, the jñānī, actually understands the science of God. One who only understands that “God is good” is in a preliminary stage, but one who actually understands how great and good God is, is further progressed. That knowledge is to be had in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Bhagavad-gītā. One who is actually interested in God should study the science of God, Bhagavad-gītā.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

“He who is in Kṛṣṇa consciousness does not care for material distress, insult or honor because he is aloof from all these. … Socrates, for instance, who believed in the immortality of the soul, was condemned to death, and upon being asked how he would like to be buried, replied, “First of all you may have to catch me.” So one who knows that he is not the body is not disturbed, for he knows the soul cannot be caught, tortured, killed or buried. … He is not concerned with the modes of goodness, passion or ignorance, but with Kṛṣṇa. One who understands this is a jñānī, a wise man, and he is very much dear to Kṛṣṇa.”
― A.C. Prabhupāda, On the Way to Krsna

“Krishna sees her looking at him and Draupadi nods slightly at him and then looks back at the pyres, for she has understood a small, insidious truth. She remembers their precipitous flight from the camp in the middle of the night while her sons and brothers were left behind to be murdered in their sleep. There is no Vrishni pyre at this mass funeral and while all the major clans of the river valleys are laid low, Krishna's clansmen are unscathed. Moreover, the only heir with a claim to the throne of Hastinapur to have survived is the secret that Uttara hides in her frail body. So Krishna's nephew is dead but through his hastily arranged marriage to Uttara, the clan of the Vrishnis finally has a claim to kingship and the eternal kingmakers will at last be rajas.”
― Ira Mukhoty, Song of Draupadi: A Novel

“In 1976, Iskcon's publishing house had ordered what was then the largest single print-run of any book in history: one million copies of Bhagavad Gita as it is, his edition of India's essential wisdom text. Ninety-five flatbed railcars were needed to deliver the paper to the printer's warehouses at Kentucky”
― Joshua M. Greene, Swami in a Strange Land: How Krishna Came to the West

“It now
seems probable that the Krishna statue was erected at the place which was
revered as the site of the founding Khmer myth: the place where the newly
arrived Indian Brahmin Kaundinya was believed to have met and married
local Mera the naga princess (we will hear more of this myth shortly). By
erecting a major temple there to Lord Krishna, ‘Phnom Da becomes a new
Mount Govardhan, and probably, by extension, the Mekong River becomes
the holy river Yamuna,’ thereby ritually extending the sacred geography of
India to South-east Asia.”
― william dalrymple, The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

“Simply by such sweet remembrance, the symptoms of divine madness automatically appeared in the body of Bhagavan Caitanya, who is the very personification of the mellows of prema-bhakti-rasa.
4.24.7”
― Murari Gupta

“God gave man speech
not to express himself but to hide what is on his mind.”
― Sapan Saxena, The Oath of Shakuni

“In politics, it is never
about ‘what’, but always about ‘when’. The timing of when we should reveal an information is very crucial.”
― Sapan Saxena, The Oath of Shakuni

“You know the thing about Trusting Krishna, you slowly learn to accept things as it is, because then you look at everything as a third person, merely observing the pain, the happiness, the victory, the failure, your whole Life looks and seems like a dream and you know this is not your Home neither your Destination, you stay kind not out of expecting anything from anyone but because you start understanding the core of Life, that stands in the basic fabric of Love, you stop Hoping not out of Dismay but out of the acute understanding that Nothing that happens around is new or under your control and yet none of it means inaction, it just means you keep walking and adding to your soul's account sometimes actually balancing the score by doing what your soul has contracted to from the beginning of taking this shell of a body, you realise you are not this body and yet you are of this body and every thing happening around is Not Happening for you and yet happening around you, where you have a significant role to play, that in this beautiful cosmic fabric of an unfathomable universe you matter because you carry the light and the DNA of a Star, of a Sun, in essence of Him.
And then you realise, that all along Mahadev was trying to tell you the exact same thing, in a different yet quite the same language, the Art of Life, where you Attach yourself without Attaching Yourself, the Dichotomy and Contrasts of Life, the Contradictory Path of Life, where Light and Dark Co-exist, much like the Life and Shadow, Death and New Beginnings and Everything that tells you Detachment is Nothing but Attachment without any expectation, that Life is Death every moment and yet Beautifully glorious in its Moments that teaches you how Human Life despite all the Pain and Loss, Melancholy and Struggles is a Lesson that is Never Void, that No Matter Your Dreams, Your Life will walk in the path that was Chosen for your Soul's progress, that despite nothing being under our Control, He has given us the Power to Pray, not to achieve something in particular but to surrender everything in essence, losing your soul and finding much more in Him, where Time Dilutes and Life Stands Still, after all Time is of Mahadev and Life is of Krishna.
So then, Time and Life become your allies and no matter what comes, you simply observe because you know you have agreed to this, long before this perishable body took charge, because you know that Death, Fear and Gloom lost their control on you the moment you surrendered your Soul and Life to Him.
Because Mahadev teaches you Vairāgya.
And Krishna teaches you Karma.
Both in Essence speak of Life lived in Submission, closely linked to the Simple Understanding that you are not this body and yet you are of this body, that you don't do anything and yet you do everything, that you are simply an observer and hence life and death, victory and failure, pleasure and pain, life and death are actually one, it is just our mind that tells us any different.
And so, Pain Loses its grip when Faith walks in.
You embrace your Darkness and wear your Crown simply in the understanding that even in Quantum Physics, the understanding of the Black Holes still holds the key, by dissecting Murphy's Law, by knowing Time as just a dimension and simply coming to the conclusion that all of this, pin-points at the Single Most Essential Truth, Life is beyond Time and HE is Beyond Time, Life, Destiny, Fate and that is where Prayers walk in.
That is Where Prayers are Much More powerful than anything of this Universe or beyond.
Because Prayers from your heart are a direct link to the One who created your heart and the Heart of this Universe, from the gravitational force to the time frequency of this tiny yet beautiful planet called earth, entangling the forces of Nature through an ocean of Cosmos and beyond.”
― Debatrayee Banerjee