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Real yoga means to connect your relationship, your identity, with Krsna. That is called yoga

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"real yoga means to connect your relationship, your identity, with Kṛṣṇa. That is called yoga"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1973 Conversations and Morning Walks

Revatīnandana: Kṛṣṇa's saying: "I am the cause of everything. From Me the whole creation flows." He is the person who has designed the flower that you cannot design. And if you want to see Him directly, if you want to associate with Him personally, He says: "Only by pure love and devotion can I be seen." Therefore our yoga is to love Kṛṣṇa. And then you can see everything when you see Kṛṣṇa. Student (2): But this is your yoga, right? Revatīnandana: It's Kṛṣṇa's yoga. Student (2): Yeah okay, well, but . . . Prabhupāda: yoga means connection. As soon as you study Kṛṣṇa in this way, you make your connection with Kṛṣṇa. That is perfection of yoga. yoga means connection, the Sanskrit word yoga. And the opposite word is viyoga, disconnection. yoga-viyoga. So yoga means, real yoga means to connect your relationship, your identity, with Kṛṣṇa. That is called yoga.

Revatīnandana: Just see. Who can produce this? (referring to flower) Who can produce something like this? Supposing you take your best chemists and engineers . . .

Student (3): Well, you must call it God, mustn't you.

Revatīnandana: And you see who can produce, right? They cannot produce anything with this texture, this nice smell, you see?

Prabhupāda: He knows it.

Student (3): It doesn't smell.

Revatīnandana: So many persons can make an artificial flower that's not as nice as that one, but they cannot reproduce that. And then we say that Kṛṣṇa is the Personality of Godhead, who is full of knowledge, full of beauty, full of power. With full knowledge, beauty and power . . .

Prabhupāda: Because He has got full knowledge, He knows how to . . . now, this flower has come from earth, and other flower has come also from the earth. But the fragrance is within the earth. But you cannot take the fragrance from the earth. You do not know. But Kṛṣṇa is taking. Just see. Therefore His knowledge is perfect. Omnipotent, omniscient. He knows how to take. He knows the process. So many flowers are coming.

Revatīnandana: Then, when you can see a flower in this consciousness, then you can see Kṛṣṇa. Through that flower, Kṛṣṇa is smiling at you. He is offering, He is smiling at you through that flower, and He is there, smiling.

Student (3): I can see a God, smiling at me from the flower.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Revatīnandana: That's right.

Student (3): I see no relationship with the flower . . . (indistinct) . . . Bhagavad-gītā.

Prabhupāda: So but you do not know who is God. That is the difference.

Revatīnandana: Kṛṣṇa's saying: "I am the cause of everything. From Me the whole creation flows." He is the person who has designed the flower that you cannot design. And if you want to see Him directly, if you want to associate with Him personally, He says: "Only by pure love and devotion can I be seen." Therefore our yoga is to love Kṛṣṇa. And then you can see everything when you see Kṛṣṇa.

Student (2): But this is your yoga, right?

Revatīnandana: It's Kṛṣṇa's yoga.

Student (2): Yeah okay, well, but . . .

Prabhupāda: yoga means connection. As soon as you study Kṛṣṇa in this way, you make your connection with Kṛṣṇa. That is perfection of yoga. yoga means connection, the Sanskrit word yoga. And the opposite word is viyoga, disconnection. yoga-viyoga. So yoga means, real yoga means to connect your relationship, your identity, with Kṛṣṇa. That is called yoga. Hmm. So take little prasādam. Come on.

Revatīnandana: Take some little sweet.

Student (2): Thank you.

Page Title:Real yoga means to connect your relationship, your identity, with Krsna. That is called yoga
Compiler:Soham
Created:2023-04-04, 16:41:59
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