Kṛṣṇa Attracting Hearts - Awakening Dormant Love for the Lord
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, possesses the unique transcendental characteristic of attracting the hearts of all living entities. By manifesting His beautiful form, enchanting smile, and the sweet vibration of His flute, Kṛṣṇa awakens the dormant love of Godhead resting within the hearts of His devotees.
The Beauty of the Supreme Lord
Śrīla Prabhupāda describes how the unparalleled beauty of Lord Kṛṣṇa naturally captivates and thrills the hearts of everyone. His transcendental form, decorated with shining ornaments and a sweet smile, draws the minds of all conditioned and liberated souls alike.
- The beauty of Krsna has one natural strength: it thrills the hearts of all men and women, beginning with Lord Krsna Himself.
- Another gopi said, "My dear friends, Krsna is so beautiful that the goddess of fortune always remains on His chest, and He is always adorned with a golden necklace. Beautiful Krsna plays His flute in order to enliven the hearts of many devotees."
- Bahulasva said, "Your transcendental form is full of bliss, knowledge and eternity. You can attract everyone’s heart by Your beautiful form as Syamasundara, Krsna."
- Krsna's attractive features and sweet smiles go deep into the heart of everyone, and once it is so done the living being is admitted into the kingdom of God, from which no one returns. This is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita.
Awakening the Heart through Sound
The transcendental sound vibration of Lord Kṛṣṇa's holy name, His pastimes, and His flute carry immense spiritual potency. Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes that simply by hearing these divine sounds, the heart becomes cleansed of all material dirt and is illuminated with transcendental knowledge.
- A person who desires unalloyed devotional service to Lord Krsna, who is praised by transcendental sound vibrations, should always hear about His glorification and transcendental qualities. This will surely kill all kinds of inauspiciousness in the heart.
- By chanting this mantra, simple mantra, without any education, without any philosophical knowledge, simply if we chant, your heart will be cleansed of all dirty things and you'll understand that you are part and parcel of Krsna.
- If one simply chants the holy name of Krsna, this holy name will rise within one's heart like the powerful sun and will immediately dissipate all the darkness of ignorance.
- The transcendental vibration of Krsna's flute disturbs the hearts of women all over the world, even if they hear it only once.
The Ecstasy of Unalloyed Devotion
When a living entity offers their heart completely to the lotus feet of the Lord, they experience the highest platform of spiritual bliss. Śrīla Prabhupāda reveals that the pure devotees, particularly the gopīs of Vṛndāvana, constantly kept Kṛṣṇa within their hearts, their love liquified like nectar.
- Dormant love for Krsna exists in everyone's heart, and it simply has to be awakened by the regulative process of devotional service.
- Nectar, however, is by its nature always liquid. And the hearts of those who are in pure ecstatic love with Krsna are by nature always liquified, just like nectar.
- Sincerely, seriously, they (young princesses) offered their hearts to Krsna's lotus feet with unalloyed devotional attitude. As the Supersoul in everyone's heart, Krsna could understand their uncontaminated desire, He agreed to accept them as His wives.
- Srila Rupa Gosvami remarks in this connection that one who is actually attracted by the beauty of the lotus feet of Sri Krsna or His service, and whose heart, by such attraction, is always full with transcendental bliss.
The Supreme Lord in the Heart
Lord Kṛṣṇa is not only the supreme object of love but is also intimately situated within the heart of every living being as the Supersoul. Śrīla Prabhupāda teaches that the Lord intimately knows the desires of everyone and directly imparts knowledge and direction from within as the paramātmā.
- Lord Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supersoul of all living entities, knows everyone's heart very well.
- In Srimad-Bhagavatam, it is stated that Krsna, the Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, transmitted transcendental knowledge into the heart of Brahma. This then is one way knowledge is received - through the heart.
- Krsna wants to continue living within the heart, and the Lord wants to give directions, but one has to keep his heart as clean as Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu kept the Gundica temple.
- Srila Sukadeva Gosvami continued, "You are present in everyone's heart as Paramatma. Therefore You are known as Jananivasa, one who lives in everyone's heart."
Conclusion
Śrīla Prabhupāda beautifully illustrates the profound dynamic between the Supreme Lord and the living entities. Kṛṣṇa, by His very nature, is all-attractive, drawing the hearts of everyone through His beauty, His enchanting flute, and His sweet pastimes. While the conditioned souls may have forgotten this eternal relationship, the process of devotional service, specifically hearing and chanting the holy names, cleanses the heart of all material contamination. Once purified, the dormant love for the Lord is awakened, allowing the soul to experience unending transcendental bliss and eternal association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
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