पत्रं पुष्पं फलं तोयं यो मे भक्त्या प्रयच्छति | तदहं भक्तयुपहृतमश्र्नामि प्रयतात्मनः || २६ || patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati tad ahaṁ bhakty-upahṛtam aśnāmi prayatātmanaḥ If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit a water, I will accept it. Here Lord Kṛṣṇa, having established that He is the only enjoyer, the primeval Lord, and the real object of all sacrificial offerings, reveals what types of sacrifices He desires to be offered. If one wishes to engage in devotional service to the Supreme in order to be purified and to reach the goal of life-the transcendental loving service of God-then he should find out what the Lord desires of him. One who loves Kṛṣṇa will give Him whatever He wants, and he avoids offering anything which is undesirable or unasked for. Thus, meat, fish and eggs should not be offered to Kṛṣṇa. If He desired such things as offerings, He would have said so. Instead He clearly requests that a leaf, fruit, flowers and water be given to Him, and He says of this offering, "I will accept it." Therefore, we should understand that He will not accept meat, fish and eggs. Vegetables, grains, fruits, milk and water are the proper foods for human beings and are prescribed by Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself. Whatever else we eat cannot be offered to Him, since He will not accept it. Thus we cannot be acting on the level of loving devotion if we offer such foods. https://gloriousgita.com/verse/en/9/26 https://bhagavad-gita.org/Gita/verse-09-26.html https://bookchanges.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Bg-Chapter-9-diff.htm https://youtube.com/c/HearSrilaPrabhupada https://www.bhagavad-gita.us/famous-reflections-on-the-bhagavad-gita/ #bhagavatam #srimadbhagavatam #vishnu #vishnupuran #harekrishna #harekrsna #harekrishna #harekrisna #prabhupada #bhagavadgita #bhagavadgitaasitis #bhagavadgītā #srilaprabhupada #srilaprabhupad #srilaprabhupadaquotes #asitis #india #indian #wayoflife #religion #goals #goaloflife #spiritual #bhakti #bhaktiyoga #chant #prasadam #picoftheday #photo #beautiful #usa https://sites.google.com/view/sanatan-dharma https://m.facebook.com/HDG.A.C.Bhaktivedanta.Svami.Srila.Prabhupada.Uvaca/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CoPMEqzr74H/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Is anywhere written Krishna a supreme God apart from the Bhagavad Gita?
Proof that Krishna is the supreme God
The Taittirīya Upaniṣad 2.1.1 says:
brahmavidāpnoti param| tadeṣā ’bhyuktā|satyaṁ jñānamanantaṁ brahma| yo veda nihitaṃ guhāyāṁ parame vyoman|so ’śnute sarvān kāmān saha brahmaṇā vipaściteti||
Meaning: 'The knower (meditator) of Brahman attains the Highest. This Rik is uttered about that Brahman. Brahman is true, conscious and infinite. He who knows Brahman hidden in the cavity of the heart, enjoys in the supreme abode all the auspicious qualities of Brahman along with the all-knowing Brahman'.
Śrīpād Raṅga Rāmānuja Muni explains the above highlighted satyaṁ jñānamanantaṁ brahma(Brahman is true, conscious and infinite) like this:
The term 'satyaṁ' declares that Brahman possesses absolutely non-conditioned existence. By this non-sentient matter subjected to change and the individual souls associated with that matter are eliminated.
The term 'jñānam' signifies the characteristic of consciousness(Of Brahman) which is even without any contraction. By this the liberated souls whose knowledge was once contracted have been eliminated.
The term 'anantaṁ' denotes the nature of being without any limitation of place, time or substance.
So, in a nutshell Brahman is True, Conscious and infinite and have unlimited potencies and possibilities (due to its being anantaṁ), also the term brahmavidāpnoti param only signifies that Brahman is the highest being. Lord Kṛṣṇa who is the son of Devakī is directly called the Brahman in the Ātmabodha Upaniṣad which is connected to the Ṛg Veda like this:
brahmaṇyo devakīputro brahmaṇyo madhusūdanaḥ brahmaṇyaḥ puṇḍarīkākṣo brahmaṇyo viṣṇuracyutaḥ
Meaning: The son of Devakī(devakīputra) is the Brahman, the killer of Madhu(madhusūdana) is the Brahman, the one who possess lotus like eyes(puṇḍarīkākṣa) is the Brahman, Lord Viṣṇu who is infallible(acyuta) is the Brahman.
The Puruṣa Sūktaṁ hymns which are found in the 10th Maṇdala 90th Sūktaṁ of Ṛg Veda states:
sahasraśīrṣā puruṣaḥ sahasrākṣaḥ sahasrapāt
Meaning: The omnipresent Puruṣa possess thousand heads, thousand eyes, thousand feets.
Nārāyaṇa Sūktaṁ which forms a part of Taittirīya Āraṇyaka Prapāṭhaka 10 which itself is a part of Kṛṣṇa Yajur-Veda states:
nārāyaṇaḥ paraṁ brahma tattvaṁ nārāyaṇaḥ paraḥ
Meaning: Nārāyaṇa is the Supreme Brahman. Nārāyaṇa is the Supreme Reality.
Now in Mahābhārata the Puruṣa of the Puruṣa Sūktaṁ and the Supreme Nārāyaṇa is identified as Kṛṣṇa,
Mahābhārata Śānti Parva Kumbakonam 46.17–28/BORI CE Section 84 Chapter 1375(47):
ārirādhayiṣuḥ kr̥ṣṇaṁ vācaṁ jigamiṣāmi yām tayā vyāsasamāsinyā prīyatāṁ puruṣottamaḥ śuciḥ śuciṣadaṁ haṁsaṁ tatparaḥ parameṣṭhinam yuktvā sarvātmanātmānaṁ taṁ prapadye prajāpatim yasmin viśvāni bhūtāni tiṣṭhanti ca viśanti ca guṇabhūtāni bhūteśe sūtre maṇigaṇā iva yasmin nitye tate tantau dr̥ḍhe srag iva tiṣṭhati sadasadgrathitaṁ viśvaṁ viśvāṅge viśvakarmaṇi hariṁ sahasraśirasaṁ sahasracaraṇekṣaṇam prāhur nārāyaṇaṁ devaṁ yaṁ viśvasya parāyaṇam aṇīyasām aṇīyāṁsaṁ sthaviṣṭhaṁ ca sthavīyasām garīyasāṁ gariṣṭhaṁ ca śreṣṭhaṁ ca śreyasām api yaṁ vākeṣv anuvākeṣu niṣatsūpaniṣatsu ca gr̥ṇanti satyakarmāṇaṁ satyaṁ satyeṣu sāmasu
Meaning: ❝O Kṛṣṇa! I wish to worship you. O Puruṣottama! May you be pleased with my words, which may be both brief and extensive. You are pure. You are the essence of purity. You are the swan. You are supreme. You are the supreme creator. You are inside all the ātmans and you are the lord of beings. You enter and are established in all beings in the universe. You are the qualities in beings. You are the lord of qualities, like a string which holds gems together. Your limbs constitute the universe. You perform deeds in the universe. Everything in the universe is strung together in you, like a garland strung together by a firm thread. You are Hari. ❛You are the one with one thousand heads. You are the one with one thousand feet and one thousand eyes.(Puruṣa Sukta)❜ ❛You are known as the Lord Nārāyaṇa.(Here Lord Kṛṣṇa is identified as the Lord Nārāyaṇa)❜ You are the refuge of the universe. You are finer than the finest. You are larger than the largest. You are heavier than the heaviest. You are better than the best. In the vākas, the anuvākas, the niṣādas and the Upaniṣads, you are the one who is praised as the performer of truthful deeds. You are truth. You are in the truth of the sāmas.❞
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam née Bhāgavata Mahā Purāṇa also states a Similar thing, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.9.18 states:
eṣa vai bhagavān sākṣād
ādyo nārāyaṇaḥ pumān
mohayan māyayā lokaṁ
gūḍhaś carati vṛṣṇiṣu
Meaning: This Śrī Kṛṣṇa is no other than the inconceivable, original Personality of Godhead. He is the first Nārāyaṇa, the supreme enjoyer. But He is moving amongst the descendants of King Vṛṣṇi just like one of us, and He is bewildering us with His self-created energy.
Śrī Viṣṇu Purāṇa 5.33.41 states:
kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa jagannātha jāne tvāṁ puruṣottamam
pareśaṁ paramātmānam anādinidhanaṁ param
Meaning: O Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! You are the Lord of the worlds, I know that You are the Puruṣottama. You are the Supreme Īśvara, Pareśa. You are the Paramātmā, the Supreme Self. You do not have a beginning or an end. You are none other than Hari.
Padma Purāṇa 6.255.73–74 states:
brahmaṇyo devakīputro brahmaṇyo madhusūdanaḥ brahmaṇyaḥ puṅḍarīkākṣo brahmaṇyo viṣṇuracyutaḥ
Meaning: The son of Devakī(devakīputra) is the Brahman, the killer of Madhu(madhusūdana) is the Brahman, the one who possess lotus like eyes(puṇḍarīkākṣa) is the Brahman, Lord Viṣṇu who is infallible(acyuta) is the Brahman.
Harivaṁśa 3.90.27–28 states:
namaste vāsudevāya vāsudevāya dhīmate namaḥ kṛṣṇāya kṛṣṇāya sarvāvāsa namo namaḥ namo bhūyo namaste’stu pāhi lokāñjanārdana
Meaning: Salutations to you, O Viṣṇu! O Hari! Salutations to you who is Vāsudeva, who is Vāsudeva the intelligent. Salutations to you, who is Kṛṣṇa, who is the abode of all. Salutations in abundance to you. Please protect all the worlds, Lord Janārdana!
Lord Kṛṣṇa is declared as the Supreme Being in all the 18 Purāṇas, 18 Upa-Purāṇas, and many other Vedic texts but I presented the prominent ones only, I hope I was able to answer the question.
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Srila Prabhupada
Messenger of the Bhagavat
It’s been another half eternity since I posted anything here. However, I currently put other priorities in my modest life than to maintain a virtual blog. Be it growing vegetables on our property, my powerlifting training or my path of Sanatana Dharma & Bhakti Yoga.
Nevertheless, there are still a few exciting projects in the works, which I will post here when the time comes and I find the time.
Today, however, I’d like to show another private work here that I’ve been working on off and on over the past few months. It’s certainly not perfect, but it’s still very close to my heart. It is based on one of my favorite photos of Srila Prabhupada aka A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, which has accompanied me for half an eternity.
Even though my spiritual path has evolved multifaceted over the past decades, Srila Prabhupada and his teachings undoubtedly have a place in my heart to this day and will accompany me to the end of this material life.
Accordingly, this work is also dedicated to him.
“nama om vishnu-padaya krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti naminenamas te sarasvate deve gaura-vani-pracharine nirvishesha-shunyavadi-pashchatya-desha-tarine”
Take care and be blessed!
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