![[Krishna birth]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/image-18.png?w=119&h=133 "[Krishna birth]")
“Vasudeva saw that wonderful child born as a baby with four hands, holding conchshell, club, disc, and lotus flower, decorated with the mark of Shrivatsa, wearing the jeweled necklace of kaustubha stone, dressed in yellow silk, appearing dazzling like a bright blackish cloud, wearing a helmet bedecked with the vaidurya stone, valuable bracelets, earrings and similar other ornaments all over His body and an abundance of hair on His head.” (Krishna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vol 1, Ch 3)
Download this episode (right click and save)
Friend1: When we speak of the residents of Gokula-dhama, the sacred land where Shri Krishna appeared some five thousand years ago, we say that they were unaware as to His Divine nature.
Friend2: They hand an inkling. How could you not think something was up after an infant survives being fed poison by a witch? He tore apart a giant…
View original post 586 more words
![[Shri Rama]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/image-15.png?w=119&h=142 "[Shri Rama]")
“When your personal and supreme interests can be easily obtained from one place, it is not sensible for you in weakness to beg at the doors of others, O Tulsi.” (Dohavali, 54)![[Janaka finding Sita]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/king-janaka-finding-sita.jpg?w=119&h=140 "[Janaka finding Sita]")
“While he was tilling a field with a plow in his hand, it is said that I, the daughter of that king, arose from underneath the earth’s surface.” (Sita Devi speaking to Anasuya, Valmiki Ramayana, Ayodhya Kand, 118.28)![[Krishna's lotus feet]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/image-11.png?w=119&h=122 "[Krishna's lotus feet]")
“Prahlada Maharaja’s class friends, who were born of Daitya families, thought that realizing the Absolute was extremely difficult. Indeed, we have experience that many, many people say this very thing. Actually, however, this is not so. The Absolute, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is most intimately related to all living entities. Therefore if one understands the Vaishnava philosophy, which explains how He is present everywhere and how He acts everywhere, to worship the Supreme Lord or to realize Him is not at all difficult.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 7.6.20-23 Purport)![[Radha-Krishna]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/image-8.png?w=119&h=117 "[Radha-Krishna]")
“One can understand the science of the Supreme Personality of Godhead simply by the parampara system. In this regard, Shrila Narottama dasa Thakura says, tandera charana sevi bhakta-sane vasa: ‘Let me serve the lotus feet of the devotees of the Lord, and let me live with devotees.’” (Shrila Prabhupada, Shrimad Bhagavatam, 7.9.42 Purport)![[Prayers to Devaki's womb]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/devaki_womb_birth_krishna.jpg?w=119&h=138 "[Prayers to Devaki's womb]")
“Our dear Lord, You are appearing as the best of the Yadu dynasty, and we are offering our respectful humble obeisances unto Your lotus feet. Before this appearance, You also appeared as the fish incarnation, the horse incarnation, the tortoise incarnation, the swan incarnation, as King Ramachandra, as Parashurama, and as many other incarnations.” (Demigods praying to Krishna in the womb of Devaki, Krishna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vol 1, Ch 2)![[Goswami Tulsidas]](http://krishnasmercy.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/image-4.png?w=119&h=118 "[Goswami Tulsidas]")
“Always chanting My glories, endeavoring with great determination, bowing down before Me, these great souls perpetually worship Me with devotion.” (Lord Krishna, 