![[Prabhupada]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/prabhupada_couch.jpg?w=119&h=107 "[Prabhupada]")
“One should accept a thing as genuine by studying the words of saintly people, the spiritual master and shastra. The actual center is shastra, the revealed scripture. If a spiritual master does not speak according to revealed scripture, he is not to be accepted. Similarly, if a saintly person does not speak according to the shastra, he is not a saintly person. Shastra is the center for all.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Chaitanya Charitamrita, Madhya 20.352 Purport)
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1. Sadhu
This is the saintly person. If I am seeking higher knowledge, the best choice is to approach someone who has some familiarity. Another seeker will be beneficial in the sense that I won’t feel alone. Less peer pressure when your peers are travelling in the same direction. It’s not necessarily good to follow the herd, but going it alone sometimes is too much stress to bear…
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![[Lord Krishna]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/image10.png?w=119&h=170 "[Lord Krishna]")
“When the embodied being is able to transcend these three modes, he can become free from birth, death, old age and their distresses and can enjoy nectar even in this life.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 14.20)![[Lord Krishna]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/image7.png?w=119&h=147 "[Lord Krishna]")
“For one who worships Me, giving up all his activities unto Me and being devoted to Me without deviation, engaged in devotional service and always meditating upon Me, who has fixed his mind upon Me, O son of Pritha, for him I am the swift deliverer from the ocean of birth and death.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 12.6-7)![[Arjuna]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/37207_10150279134860375_215886190374_15142479_1673340_n.jpg?w=119&h=132 "[Arjuna]")
“O Emperor, now I am separated from my friend and dearmost well-wisher, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore my heart appears to be void of everything. In His absence I have been defeated by a number of infidel cowherd men while I was guarding the bodies of all the wives of Krishna.” (Arjuna, Shrimad Bhagavatam, 1.15.20)![[Narasimha and Prahlada]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/prahlada-and-narasimha1.jpg?w=119&h=161 "[Narasimha and Prahlada]")
“The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Prahlada, O most pure, O great saintly person, your father has been purified, along with twenty-one forefathers in your family. Because you were born in this family, the entire dynasty has been purified.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 7.10.18)![[Lord Krishna]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/image2.png?w=119&h=154 "[Lord Krishna]")
“Forgetting Krishna, the living entity has been attracted by the external feature from time immemorial. Therefore the illusory energy [maya] gives him all kinds of misery in his material existence.” (Chaitanya Charitamrita, Madhya 20.117)![[Lord Krishna]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/image.png?w=151&h=179 "[Lord Krishna]")
“According to the three modes of material nature and the work ascribed to them, the four divisions of human society were created by Me. And, although I am the creator of this system, you should know that I am yet the non-doer, being unchangeable.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 4.13)![[Krishna's lotus feet]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/img_1865.jpg?w=119&h=105 "[Krishna's lotus feet]")
“When the soul is situated in his original constitutional position of existence, he is said to be liberated. It is possible to engage in transcendental loving service to the Lord and become jivan-mukta, a liberated soul, even while in the material body.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Chaitanya Charitamrita, Adi 2.91-92 Purport)![[Krishna's lotus feet]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/img_4382.jpg?w=119&h=108 "[Krishna's lotus feet]")
“The Personality of Godhead said: Under the supervision of the Supreme Lord and according to the result of his work, the living entity, the soul, is made to enter into the womb of a woman through the particle of male semen to assume a particular type of body.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 3.31.1)![[Indra-Govardhana]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2018/11/bkliq3b2kkgrhqyokiiesnd2uy5cblwel6z9t_3.jpg?w=119&h=131 "[Indra-Govardhana]")
“When Indra understood that the sacrifice offered by the cowherd men in Vrindavana was stopped by Krishna, he became angry, and he vented his anger upon the inhabitants of Vrindavana, who were headed by Nanda Maharaja, although Indra knew perfectly well that Krishna was personally protecting them.” (Krishna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vol 1, Ch 25)
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