# Kṛṣṇa's Form and Beauty *On the Lord's transcendental form, the Deity, and seeing God* --- ### Not Material Form > If He has no form, if He is formless, if He is *nirākāra,* then where is the question of *aṅgum?* He has *aṅgum, samagrāṅgum.* But He hasn't got a form like us. That is the meaning. When in the *śāstra* it is said that God has no form, it means that He has no material form. He has form; otherwise how can I think of His form? — [[spoken/1975/751027sb.nai|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.9.11, Nairobi, 1975]] --- ### Eternal Blissful Form > This Kṛṣṇa's form is not like us. *Sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha.* His *aṅga* is *sac-cid-ānanda,* not like... *Ānanda-cinmaya-rasa pratibhāvitābhis tābhir ya eva nija-rūpatayā kalābhiḥ.* Kṛṣṇa and His expansion—*ānanda-cinmāyā.* Kṛṣṇa's form is *sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha.* Kṛṣṇa's His *aṅga,* His form, is nondifferent from Kṛṣṇa. — [[spoken/1975/751027sb.nai|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.9.11, Nairobi, 1975]] --- ### Seeing the Deity > If you see Kṛṣṇa daily in the temple, if you worship, you offer your obeisances—*man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru*—naturally you will think of Kṛṣṇa twenty-four hours, and that will make you more pious, because without being pious, nobody can think of Kṛṣṇa. — [[spoken/1975/751027sb.nai|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.9.11, Nairobi, 1975]] --- ### Deity Is Kṛṣṇa > Kṛṣṇa is omnipotent. He can accept your service, becoming a marble statue. Because I cannot see Kṛṣṇa by my present eyes, therefore He has appeared before you just like a marble statue. But He is not marble statue. We must know that. If we think, "Here is marble statue, and if I commit some offense, who is going to see?" this is wrong conclusion. He is Kṛṣṇa personally present here in a form which we can see. It is His mercy. — [[spoken/1975/751027sb.nai|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.9.11, Nairobi, 1975]] --- ### All-Powerful Presence > Kṛṣṇa is everything. This marble is also Kṛṣṇa's energy. *Bhūmir āpo'nalo vāyuḥ.* So He can accept your service from any of His energy. The marble is also His energy, the water is also His energy, the air is also His energy—everything. Without Kṛṣṇa nothing can exist. So He is omniscient, all-powerful. He can accept your service through His energy. This is *arcā-vigraha.* — [[spoken/1975/751027sb.nai|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.9.11, Nairobi, 1975]] --- ### Meditation on Kṛṣṇa's Form > *Dhyāyed devaṁ samagrāṅgam.* The *dhyāna,* the meditation, should begin from the lotus feet. As soon as you begin *kīrtana,* first of all concentrate your mind on the lotus feet, not all of a sudden jump over the face. Be practiced to think over the lotus feet, then gradually still higher, the knees, then the thighs, then the belly, then the chest. In this way, at last go to the face. This is the process. — [[spoken/1975/751027sb.nai|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.9.11, Nairobi, 1975]] --- ### Eternity, Bliss, and Knowledge > *Īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ anādir ādir govindaḥ sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam.* The supreme controller is Kṛṣṇa, and His form is *sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha*—eternal, full of bliss and knowledge. — [[spoken/1975/750211bg.mex|Bhagavad-gītā 7.1, Mexico City, 1975]] --- ### Kṛṣṇa Can Eat by Seeing > Kṛṣṇa can eat any way. Just like we can eat only putting the foodstuff through the mouth. No. Kṛṣṇa can eat even by seeing. *Sa aikṣata.* In the Vedic version it is said simply Kṛṣṇa put His glance over material nature, and she produced so many children. That is God. He can do everything by every limb of the body. That is called *aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛtti-manti.* That is called all-powerful. — [[spoken/1976/760630sb.nv|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.6.16, New Vṛndāvana, 1976]] --- ### Eyes to See God > Only one who has love for the Supreme Lord can see Him. *Premāñjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santaḥ sadaiva hṛdayeṣu vilokayanti.* One who has developed love for the Supreme Lord, he sees Him all the time. He doesn't see anything other than the Supreme Lord. — [[spoken/1976/761016bg.cha|Bhagavad-gītā 9.3, Chandigarh, 1976]] --- ### The Absolute Name > This Hare Kṛṣṇa means that the Supreme Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa is personally present. He is dancing on your tongue. A pure devotee who has no offense against the holy name, when he chants at that time the Supreme Lord dances on his tongue. You should understand this. Had this word "Kṛṣṇa" been a mundane sound vibration one would have been tired of chanting "Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa" twenty-four hours. — [[spoken/1976/761016bg.cha|Bhagavad-gītā 9.3, Chandigarh, 1976]] --- *10 quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda on Kṛṣṇa's form and beauty* [[wiki/quotes|Back to Quotes]]