Привязанность

Господь Шри Кришна - Верховная Личность Бога, причина всех причин, вместилище всех рас (отношений), а именно: нейтралитета (пассивного преклонения), служения, дружбы, родительской любви, супружеской любви, веселья, сострадания, страха, рыцарства, ужаса, удивления и опустошения.

БС 5.30: 

Всегда играющий на флейте, Тот, Чьи глаза — словно лепестки расцветшего лотоса, А голова украшена пером павлина, Чей прекрасный облик имеет оттенок синей тучи, Обладатель несравненной красоты, пленяющей миллионы богов любви — Ему — Предвечному Господу, Говинде, я поклоняюсь.

Krishna. 14. 

Привязанность к телу объясняется только тем, что в нем находится наше "Я", или душа. Более развитый в духовном отношении человек понимает, что душа приносит радость потому, что является неотъемлемой частицей Кришны. В конечном счете именно Кришна приносит всем радость и привлекает всех. Он Сверхдуша всего сущего. Для того, чтобы дать нам это знание, Кришна приходит к нам и объясняет, что Он - тот, кто привлекает всех и все. То, что не исходит от Кришны, не может быть привлекательным.

Krishna. 21.

Тот, кто всегда пребывает в духовной медитации и видит Кришну в своем сердце и перед собой, кто вспоминает о том, как Кришна, играя на флейте, вступает в лес Вриндавана и как Он вместе с другими пастушками присматривает за коровами, воистину достиг совершенства самадхи. Самадхи, транс, - это состояние, в котором все чувства поглощены одним предметом, и гопи заметили, что размышления об играх Кришны - это совершенство всякой медитации или самадхи. В "Бхагавад-гите" также сказано, что человек, всегда поглощенный мыслями о Кришне, - величайший из всех йогов.

Другая гопи сказала, что, когда Кришна и Баларама пасут коров, Они похожи на актеров, собирающихся выйти на сцену. Кришна облачен в ярко-желтые, а Баларама в голубые одежды, и оба держат в руках побеги мангового дерева, павлиньи перья и цветы. На Них гирлянды из лотосов. Шествуя в окружении друзей, Они время от времени поют сладкими голосами. Одна гопи спросила своих подруг: "Отчего Кришна и Баларама так прекрасны?" Другая сказала: "Дорогие подружки, нельзя даже представить себе, какие благочестивые деяния совершила бамбуковая флейта Кришны, чтобы сейчас наслаждаться нектаром Его уст, который на самом деле принадлежит нам, гопи !" Кришна порой целует пастушек, и потому только им доступен божественный нектар Его губ. Гопи недоумевали: "Как может флейта, обыкновенный бамбуковый стебелек, непрестанно пить нектар с уст Кришны? Мать и отец этой флейты, должно быть, счастливы от того, что она служит Верховному Господу".

B. G. 10.36.

Из всех видов мошенничества Я азартная игра. Я блеск всего, что поражает великолепием. Я победа, Я приключение и сила сильных.

B. G. 18.59.

Если же ты не выполнишь Мою волю и не вступишь в сражение, то выберешь неверный путь. Твоя природа все равно заставит тебя сражаться.

Me alone

B. G. 8.5.

And whoever, at the end of his life, quits his body remembering Me alone at once attains My nature. Of this there is no doubt.

B. G. 9.23.

Whatever a man may sacrifice to other gods, O son of Kunti, is really meant for Me alone, but it is offered without true understanding.

B. G. 7.22.

Endowed with such a faith, he seeks favors of a particular demigod and obtains his desires. But in actuality these benefits are bestowed by Me alone.

S. B. 2.9.33.

Brahmā, it is I, the Personality of Godhead, who was existing before the creation, when there was nothing but Myself. Nor was there the material nature, the cause of this creation. That which you see now is also I, the Personality of Godhead, and after annihilation what remains will also be I, the Personality of Godhead.

S.B.11.13.24

Within this world, whatever is perceived by the mind, speech, eyes or other senses is Me alone and nothing besides Me. All of you please understand this by a straightforward analysis of the facts.

S. B. 11.13.30.

According to My instructions, one should fix the mind on Me alone. If, however, one continues to see many different values and goals in life rather than seeing everything within Me, then although apparently awake, one is actually dreaming due to incomplete knowledge, just as one may dream that one has wakened from a dream.

S. B. 10.23.14.

[Lord Kṛṣṇa said:] Tell the wives of the brāhmaṇas that I have come here with Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa. They will certainly give you all the food you want, for they are most affectionate toward Me and, indeed, with their intelligence reside in Me alone. 

S. B. 11.14.14.

One who has fixed his consciousness on Me desires neither the position or abode of Lord Brahmā or Lord Indra, nor an empire on the earth, nor sovereignty in the lower planetary systems, nor the eightfold perfection of yoga, nor liberation from birth and death. Such a person desires Me alone.

S. B. 10.51.63.

O King, in your very next life you will become an excellent brāhmaṇa, the greatest well-wisher of all creatures, and certainly come to Me alone.

S. B. 10.46.43.

Nothing can be said to exist independent of Lord Acyuta — nothing heard or seen, nothing in the past, present or future, nothing moving or unmoving, great or small. He indeed is everything, for He is the Supreme Soul.

CC 2.25.37. 

 ‘Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the cause of all causes. He is past, present and future, and He is the movable and immovable. He is the greatest and the smallest, and He is visible and directly experienced. He is celebrated in the Vedic literature. Everything is Kṛṣṇa, and without Him there is no existence. He is the root of all understanding, and He is that which is understood by all words.’

B. G. 15.16. P. 

Those who are in oneness with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, however, are called infallible. Oneness does not mean that they have no individuality, but that there is no disunity. They are all agreeable to the purpose of the creation.

Death as the representative of God

Ordinary family man who works very hard day and night and is successful in giving comforts to the members of his family thereby relishes a kind of mellow, but his whole advancement of material happiness immediately terminates along with his body as soon as his life is over. Death is therefore taken as the representative of God for the atheistic class of men. The devotee realizes the presence of God by devotional service, whereas the atheist realizes the presence of God in the shape of death.

Yayati And God Of Death

There is a beautiful story, a great parable in the Upanishads:
One of the great kings, Yayati, was dying. He was a hundred years old, ripe enough to die — one should be ready by that time — but not grown-up enough; the seed of renewing life was not yet burnt. So when death came, Yayati fell at the feet of Death — a great king, a great conqueror! — and he said to Death, “Spare me only one hundred years more. I don’t ask for more, just one hundred years more. And it is nothing for you, you can do it. All my desires are still unfulfilled because I had never thought about you. I was simply preparing and preparing. I have not enjoyed my life. Now that everything is ready — I have conquered the whole world, I have all the riches, the most beautiful women, the most intelligent and courageous sons, the best army in the world, everything is settled, all enemies killed — I was just thinking to relax and enjoy. Is this the time to come? All these hundred years have been spent simply in preparing for these moments. Spare me just one hundred years more so that I can live to my heart’s content.”
Death laughed and said, “I am ready to spare one hundred years more to you, but I will have to take one of your sons because I have to go with somebody who resembles you; if not you, at least one of your sons. I can’t go empty-handed, I have to give the account to my boss himself. He will ask, ‘Where is Yayati?’ What am I going to say? Such a thing has never been done before, but I feel sorry for you. Just ask one of your sons.”

Yayati had a hundred sons; he must have had a hundred wives too. He asked his sons. The oldest was eighty, but he started looking downwards, was not ready to say yes. Why should he? He had lived only eighty years; if his father is not contented with a hundred years, how can he be contented with only eighty years? At least twenty years more he is entitled to live. In those days, the story says, people used to live a hundred years. Why should he die a premature death, an untimely death? And this old fellow has lived enough! He did not want to hurt the old man so he didn’t say anything, he kept quiet.

The father was very much shocked; he used to think that his sons were ready to sacrifice themselves. But in this world nobody is ready to sacrifice himself for anybody else. He looked around. His sons also started looking at each other, meaning “Why don’t YOU go?”
The youngest, who was only twenty years old, stood up and he said, “I am ready. Take me with you, I am coming with you.”

Even Death felt sorry for the boy. Death came close to the young man and said, “Are you a fool or something? Your other brothers — one is eighty, one is seventy-five, one is seventy, sixty, sixty-five, fifty — these people are not ready to go and you are the youngest, you have not lived at all. Why are you ready to go?”

The young man said, “If my father could not live in a hundred years, if my eldest brother could not live in eighty years, if my other brothers… nobody has been able to live, then the whole project is nonsense. I don’t want to waste time. If I have to die it is better to die now. Why wait for eighty years? If THESE people have not been able to manage, it is absolutely certain it is unmanageable. And let my father try a hundred years more.”

Death tried to convince him, but he wouldn’t listen. Death had to take him away.
After a hundred years, Death came back and the situation was the same. Again Yayati fell at his feet and started crying and weeping and he said, “I know that now I should be ready, but nothing is fulfilled yet; all the desires are the same. I have LIVED all the desires, I cannot say that I have not lived them, but nothing is fulfilled. I want more! Now that I have lived a hundred years a new desire has arisen — I want more! I want to live at least one time more, a hundred years more, just one time more.”

And this went on happening again and again. When Yayati became one thousand years old and Death came, he was just going to fall at his feet. Death said, “Wait — enough is enough! Can’t you see the point, Yayati? Are you so blind? You have lived one thousand years, and you have been doing the same things again and again. You have done nothing new in these one thousand years, and still you want more? Can’t you see the simple point that mind lives in the more, it goes on asking for more? There is no end to it. Now you come with me — I am not going to listen anymore. Now even my boss is feeling angry with me. He says, ‘This is too much! This man has been given too much time.’ But I also wanted to try — let us see what you can make out of one thousand years. You have not made any progress, you are exactly in the same place, going in circles.”

Approaching Guru

S. B. 6.15.16. Com. : The guru should not be approached for material benefits. One should not approach a guru just to cure some disease or receive some miraculous benefit. This is not the way to approach the guru. Tad-vijñānārtham: one should approach the guru to understand the transcendental science of spiritual life.