# Kṛṣṇa's Beauty *On the all-attractive form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead* --- ### Village Girls Captivated > *Bhayāt, krodhāt.* Either... Anyone who comes to Kṛṣṇa... Just like *gopīs,* they were captivated. They were village girls. They did not know what is God, what is Brahman, nothing. But they were captivated: "Kṛṣṇa is very beautiful boy." That's all. Even they forgot their own husbands. Everyone. — [[spoken/1976/760618mw.tor|Morning Walk, Toronto, June 18, 1976]] --- ### Dancing With Kṛṣṇa > Therefore when Kṛṣṇa says, *tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti...*. If you become a perfect devotee of Kṛṣṇa, then after giving up this body, you get a body like Kṛṣṇa, *sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha* [Bs. 5.1], and live eternally, blissful life of knowledge. — [[spoken/1974/740618bg.ger|Bhagavad-gītā 2.13, Germany, June 18, 1974]] --- ### Love For Dog or Love For God > According to your *karma,* or work, you get a body, either as a king's son or a cobbler's son or a dog's son or a cat's son or a tree's son or a plant's son. This is the nature. This is to be understood. Kṛṣṇa said in the last verse that "Don't think we did not exist in the past. We are existing at present, and we shall continue to exist in the future." Exactly like that, that we live in one apartment, then if I am able to pay more rent, I transfer to another apartment. — [[spoken/1974/740618bg.ger|Bhagavad-gītā 2.13, Germany, June 18, 1974]] --- ### So Therefore You Prepare > So therefore you prepare very, very nice foodstuff and offer to Kṛṣṇa and take it. Then your desire for eating nice foodstuff will be automatically fulfilled. And at the same time become devotee of Kṛṣṇa. Why don't you do this? Anyone can do, either in this temple or at home. But they will not worship Kṛṣṇa. They will worship a dog. Instead of God, keeping dog and taking all care. This is the mentality. Then next life he becomes a dog. Because he has got good faith and love for dog, therefore he becomes dog. And if you have got good faith and love for Kṛṣṇa, you become a body like Kṛṣṇa. Unless you have got the same type of body, how you can play with Kṛṣṇa, dance with Kṛṣṇa? — [[spoken/1974/740618bg.ger|Bhagavad-gītā 2.13, Germany, June 18, 1974]] --- ### All-Attractive > We have no brain. We are all not very intelligent. But we can understand if there is the active principle soul within this body, there must be a Supersoul within this huge structure of body, and that is called God. *Mohitaṁ nābhijānāti mām ebhyaḥ param avyayam*. Those who are bewildered, *narādhamāḥ. Narādhamāḥ,* the lowest of the mankind. These things cannot be understood by the cats and dogs. Their body is constituted in such a way that they cannot think of there is an active principle within this body and there is active principle in this huge, gigantic body. The cats and dogs cannot understand, but a human being can understand. And that active principle is Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa means all-attractive. — [[spoken/1974/740608ar.par|Arrival Address, Paris, June 8, 1974]] --- ### The Reservoir of Pleasure > The son goes out. The daughter goes out. So everyone is prone to some attraction. So if you keep them in the material attraction, then you can change the name; the disease will continue. That is the difficulty. You can change the name from this "ism" to that "ism," but every "ism" is material. *Mūḍhā nābhijānāti.* That is also... "The *mūḍhā,* these rascal, they do not know *mām,* Me, Kṛṣṇa," *param avyayam,* "inexhaustible pleasure." Kṛṣṇa is the reservoir of all pleasure. In the Vṛndāvana there is sporting. There is association with young girls, father, mother. Everything is exactly like this. And in any circumstance they are happy. — [[spoken/1975/750618mw.hon|Morning Walk, Honolulu, June 18, 1975]] --- ### The Topmost Worship > But "In spite Kṛṣṇa's all cruelty, I cannot withdraw," this is real love. That is only possible with Kṛṣṇa. Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted that there is no better conception of worshiping Kṛṣṇa than it was contemplated by the *gopīs.* That is the topmost worship of Kṛṣṇa. There is no comparison. There are different grades of devotees, but nobody can be compared with *gopīs,* the topmost love for Kṛṣṇa. — [[spoken/1972/720618gc.la|Garden Conversation Kṛṣṇa, 'Delivery of the Message of Kṛṣṇa to the Gopīs', Los Angeles, June 18, 1972]] --- ### Wonderful Devotees > "He said, 'My dear *gopīs,* your mission of human life is now successful. You are all wonderful devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; therefore you are eligible to be worshiped by all kinds of people. You are worshipable throughout the three worlds, because your minds are wonderfully absorbed in the thought of Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa. He is the goal of all kinds of pious activities and ritualistic performances, such as giving in charity, rigidly following the austerity of vows, undergoing severe penances and igniting the fire of sacrifice. — [[spoken/1972/720618gc.la|Garden Conversation Kṛṣṇa, 'Delivery of the Message of Kṛṣṇa to the Gopīs', Los Angeles, June 18, 1972]] --- *8 verified verbatim quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda on Kṛṣṇa's beauty*