Attachment for Krsna (BG and SB)

Expressions researched:
"Krsna for their worshipful attachment" |"attachment for Govinda" |"attachment for Krsna" |"attachment for Lord Krsna" |"attachment for Lord Sri Krsna" |"attachment is Krsna" |"attachment is transferred to Krsna" |"attachment to Krsna" |"attachment to Lord Krsna"

Notes from the compiler: Does not include "Krsna consciousness"

BG Chapters 1 - 6

Detachment from matter and attachment to Kṛṣṇa are one and the same. One who can see this sees things as they are.

BG 5.5, Translation and Purport:

One who knows that the position reached by means of analytical study can also be attained by devotional service, and who therefore sees analytical study and devotional service to be on the same level, sees things as they are.

The real purpose of philosophical research is to find the ultimate goal of life. Since the ultimate goal of life is self-realization, there is no difference between the conclusions reached by the two processes. By Sāṅkhya philosophical research one comes to the conclusion that a living entity is not a part and parcel of the material world but of the supreme spirit whole. Consequently, the spirit soul has nothing to do with the material world; his actions must be in some relation with the Supreme. When he acts in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he is actually in his constitutional position. In the first process, Sāṅkhya, one has to become detached from matter, and in the devotional yoga process one has to attach himself to the work of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Factually, both processes are the same, although superficially one process appears to involve detachment and the other process appears to involve attachment. Detachment from matter and attachment to Kṛṣṇa are one and the same. One who can see this sees things as they are.

BG Chapters 7 - 12

In this verse, two different processes of bhakti-yoga are indicated.

BG 12.9, Translation and Purport:

My dear Arjuna, O winner of wealth, if you cannot fix your mind upon Me without deviation, then follow the regulative principles of bhakti-yoga. In this way develop a desire to attain Me.

In this verse, two different processes of bhakti-yoga are indicated. The first applies to one who has actually developed an attachment for Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, by transcendental love. And the other is for one who has not developed an attachment for the Supreme Person by transcendental love. For this second class there are different prescribed rules and regulations one can follow to be ultimately elevated to the stage of attachment to Kṛṣṇa.

SB Canto 1

The most important function of a devotee is to have complete attachment for Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the father of all living beings.

SB 1.19.16, Purport:

And the most important function of a devotee is to have complete attachment for Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the father of all living beings. As a good son of the father behaves in a friendly way with all his other brothers, so also the devotee of the Lord, being a good son of the supreme father, Lord Kṛṣṇa, sees all other living beings in relation with the supreme father. He tries to bring back the upstart sons of the father to a saner stage and to get them to accept the supreme fatherhood of God.