Attraction for Krsna (SB)

Expressions researched:
"attracted to Krsna" |"attracted to Me, Krsna" |"attracted toward Krsna" |"attraction (bhava) for Krsna" |"attraction for God, or Krsna" |"attraction for Krsna" |"attraction for Lord Krsna" |"attraction for Sri Krsna" |"attraction for You, Krsna" |"attraction for young Krsna" |"attraction in Krsna" |"attraction of Kamsa to Krsna" |"attraction of Krsna" |"attraction of Sri Krsna" |"attraction to Krsna" |"attraction to be Sri Krsna" |"center of attraction Krsna"

SB Canto 2

SB 2.4.2, Translation:

Mahārāja Parīkṣit, as a result of his wholehearted attraction for Lord Kṛṣṇa, was able to give up all deep-rooted affection for his personal body, his wife, his children, his palace, his animals like horses and elephants, his treasury house, his friends and relatives, and his undisputed kingdom.

SB Canto 3

The gopīs were attracted to Kṛṣṇa by bhakti-yoga in a relationship of lusty desire (kāma).

SB 3.16.31, Purport:

If one somehow or other becomes attached to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he becomes engaged in bhakti-yoga, as described in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.29.15): kāmaṁ krodhaṁ bhayam. The gopīs were attracted to Kṛṣṇa by bhakti-yoga in a relationship of lusty desire (kāma). Similarly, Kaṁsa was attached to bhakti-yoga by dint of fear of his death. Thus bhakti-yoga is so powerful that even becoming an enemy of the Lord and always thinking of Him can deliver one very quickly.

SB Canto 4

Unless one takes shelter of a bona fide spiritual master and advances one's attraction for Kṛṣṇa by the spiritual master's instructions, the five coverings of the living entity cannot be uncovered from the material heart.

SB 4.22.26, Purport:

The individual soul is liberated when it comes out of the material heart or cleanses the heart to make it spiritualized. The example given here is very appropriate: yonim ivotthito'gniḥ. Agni, or fire, comes out of wood, and by it the wood is completely destroyed. Similarly, when a living entity increases his attachment for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he is to be considered like fire. A blazing fire is visible by its exhibition of heat and light; similarly, when the living entity within the heart becomes enlightened with full spiritual knowledge and detached from the material world, he burns up his material covering of the five elements—earth, water, fire, air and sky—and becomes free from the five kinds of material attachments, namely ignorance, false egoism, attachment to the material world, envy and absorption in material consciousness. Therefore pañcātmakam, as mentioned in this verse, refers to either the five elements or the five coverings of material contamination. When these are all burned into ashes by the blazing fire of knowledge and detachment, one is fixed firmly in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Unless one takes shelter of a bona fide spiritual master and advances one's attraction for Kṛṣṇa by the spiritual master's instructions, the five coverings of the living entity cannot be uncovered from the material heart.