Friendship - an essential subject

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Krsna is the real friend of everyone. We are seeking friendship from so many persons to improve our material condition, but we do not know the real friend is within us. By education, people would be able to realize that they are not proprietor. Kṛṣṇa is proprietor. They are not enjoyer. Kṛṣṇa is enjoyer. They are seeking out friends to give them protection. Kṛṣṇa is the supreme friend who will give them protection.

Srila Prabhupada's books, lectures, conversations and letters offer a comprehensive presentation of this essential subject as seen in the Vaniquotes Friendship category. An introduction from his books is given below in the following 11 quotes.

   
 

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vanipedia.org 		Through Lord Caitanya we can become friends with Kṛṣṇa, and there will be no limit to this friendship. We can become friends of Kṛṣṇa not in awe or adoration but in complete freedom. We can even relate to God as His father or mother. This is the philosophy not only of the Caitanya-caritāmṛta but of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam as well. (Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Introduction)



vanipedia.org 		From the spiritual point of view we are all spiritual sparks, parts and parcels of the Supreme Spirit, God. Either materially or spiritually we are basically one, but we make friends and enemies as dictated by the illusory energy. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.9.33)



vanipedia.org 		A devotee shows compassion to those poor souls who are wanting in spiritual knowledge by enlightening them in order to elevate them to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is one of the duties of a devotee. He should also make friendship with persons who are on an equal level with himself or who have the same understanding that he does. For a devotee, there is no point in making friendships with ordinary persons. He should make friendship with other devotees so that by discussing among themselves, they may elevate one another on the path of spiritual understanding. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.29.17)



vanipedia.org 		The Lord is very satisfied with His devotee when the devotee greets other people with tolerance, mercy, friendship and equality. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.11.13)



vanipedia.org 		The power of friendship is limited. Although one claims to be a friend, he cannot be a friend unlimitedly. There are an unlimited number of living entities, and our resources are limited; therefore we cannot be of any real benefit to the people in general. The best service to the people in general is to awaken them to Kṛṣṇa consciousness so that they may know that the supreme enjoyer, the supreme proprietor and the supreme friend is Kṛṣṇa. Then this illusory dream of lording it over material nature will vanish. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.27.4)



vanipedia.org 		If one accepts Kṛṣṇa as the supreme friend, the attraction of material friendship will be finished for him, and he will not be dismayed by so-called friendship with mundane wranglers. If he is attracted by servitorship to Kṛṣṇa, he will no longer have to serve the material body in the degraded status of material existence, with the false hope of becoming master in the future. (Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 4.35)



vanipedia.org 		One who possesses more in this material world, in the shape of houses, land, children, society, friendship and wealth, possesses these things only for the time being. One cannot possess all this illusory paraphernalia, created by māyā, permanently. Such a possessor is more illusioned in the matter of his self-realization; therefore one should possess less or nothing, so that one may be free from artificial prestige. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.7.18)



vanipedia.org 		The Lord's congregational saṅkīrtana movement at Purī was a unique exhibition for the mass of people. That is the way to turn the mass mind towards spiritual realization. The Lord inaugurated this system of mass saṅkīrtana, and leaders of all countries can take advantage of this spiritual movement in order to keep the mass of people in a pure state of peace and friendship with one another. This is now the demand of the present human society all over the world. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Introduction)



vanipedia.org 		There are innumerable books, such as the purāṇas, Mahābhārata, Bhāgavatam, Bhagavad-gītā and Upaniṣads, which contain countless subjects for discussion among two devotees or more. Friendship should be cemented between persons with mutual interests and understanding. Such persons are said to be sva jāti, "of the same caste." The devotee should avoid a person whose character is not fixed in the standard understanding; even though he may be a Vaiṣṇava, or a devotee of Kṛṣṇa, if his character is not correctly representative, then he should be avoided. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.29.17)



vanipedia.org 		The different rasas are also divided into two kinds of ecstasy, called yoga and viyoga, or meeting and separation. In the rasas of friendship and parenthood, the feelings of meeting and separation are various. (Teachings of Lord Caitanya, Chapter 14)



vanipedia.org 		Society, friendship, love and well-wishers are all simply results of being packed in different bodies. One should know this well and try to get out of this bodily encagement into which one is thrown birth after birth. One should take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, and return home, back to Godhead. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.28.60)


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