Getting To Know God
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pure, he is completely attached to the Lord. The other spiritualists, those who have realized only the Impersonal Supreme Being or the Supreme Soul, can not appreciate at their true value the acts of beings thus perfectly realized. But the Lord is always there to help his pure devotees; in their hearts, it gives them the necessary knowledge to completely dispel the darkness of ignorance. Neither philosophers nor realized beings can conceive of this, for their spiritual progress depends more or less on their own powers. Only those to whom the Lord gives His grace, the holy ones, can know Him and see Him in person.

The radiance that emanates from the body of Krishna, God, the Supreme Person is peopled with an infinite number of spiritual souls. It is usually in it that the impersonalists want to melt when they leave their bodies at the death of the latter.

The excellences of Krishna, God.

Verily, God has no Name, or rather, no one knows how much he has, because God is unlimited, his Names must be too. Therefore, we can not stop our choice on one of them in particular. God maintains with his devotees many relationships to which correspond the various names attributed to him. The diversity of his relations being infinite, as well as the number of his devotees, his names also are in unlimited number. So we can not select one in particular. Nevertheless, the name Kṛiṣhṇa means “infinitely fascinating”: God, indeed, fascinates all beings, and it is precisely the definition of the word God.

On the many engravings depicting Kṛiṣhṇa in Vrindavana, we can see that He actually attracts cows, calves, birds, animals, trees, plants and even streams. Young patres, gopīs, and all humanity are fascinated by Him. Therefore, if God is given a particular Name, it is that of “Kṛiṣhṇa” The great sage Parasara Muni, father of Vyāsadeva, the author of all the Vedic scriptures, gives God the following definition:

“God, the Supreme Person, is the one whose opulence is manifested by six absolute perfections: Power, fame, wealth, knowledge, beauty, and renunciation. Krishna is the first Name of God, and the most powerful of All. Perfectly autonomous, He is self-sufficient. He is the source of all powers, it is He who grants them to heavenly beings, great sages, realized beings and kings. He is the Absolute Truth.”

Let us approach a spiritual master, an authentic servant of God, without taking into account our social position, our confession, our skin color, our country, to hear from him all that concerns the devotional service dedicated to God. The true purpose of existence is to revive our latent love for God, to learn to love him and to serve him with love and devotion. In truth, this is our ultimate necessity, purpose and duty.

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