Krishna’s Love: Affirmations and Meditations
Krishna’s Love Affirmations
- Krishna values a relationship with me. I am valuable to Krishna.
- As a father has natural love, affection and compassion for his children, Krishna has love, affection and compassion for me.
- Just like a father, Krishna provides me with all the necessities of life.
- Just like a friend, Krishna is always with me and guides me from within.
- Krishna speaks the Bhagavad-gita because He loves me. He is inviting me to eternally play and dance with Him in the spiritual world.
- Krishna accepts my least qualification and gives me the highest reward.
- Krishna’s love is so great that He became the gatekeeper of Bali Maharaja.
- Krishna’s love is so great that He offered Putana the position of mother. How could I take shelter of anyone else?
- All of Krishna’s actions are loving; even His so-called enmity is loving.
- Krishna’s love is so great that even though I am unqualified, He accepts me and offers me the highest reward.
- Krishna will always love me even if I don’t love Him.
- Krishna’s love remains ever-increasingly beautiful.
- I accept Krishna’s love as His gift to me and I serve Krishna without asking anything in return.
- If I try to love Krishna purely, nothing in the world can stop me; and this love is the only thing that can make me happy.
- Krishna is so kind that whatever insignificant things I offer Him with love, He will accept.
- I love Krishna and Krishna loves me. This is our exchange of feelings.
- With love for Krishna, I can see Krishna everywhere at every moment.
- Through my love for Krishna, I can expand my love for everyone.
- Because I love Krishna, I want to see everyone in the world become Krishna conscious.
- Through my actions towards others, I show them that God loves them.
Krishna’s Love Exercise
Did you have any difficulty fully believing and/or accepting any of these affirmations? If so, note why. Some possible reasons are:
- Thinking humility means to be too fallen, useless, or contaminated for Krishna to love you.
- Due to low self-esteem – or another mental/emotional issue – I feel too fallen, useless or contaminated for Krishna to love me.
- I think Krishna is like us, and thus He needs good reasons to love us.
- I feel unworthy of being loved by Krishna, or even unworthy of being loved in general. (I am not qualified for His love.)
- My previous religious training negatively affects my ability to see Krishna as an all-loving God.
- I can’t reconcile the suffering in my life and the world with Krishna’s love.
- I can’t believe Krishna would want a relationship with such a person as myself.
- I am not ready to have a close relationship with Krishna.
- I have many concerns/fears about surrendering to Krishna
- What, specifically, are you not accepting about yourself that Krishna , and Prabhupada and your guru(s) are accepting about you?
- Are there other reasons?
Please answer the following question: “If I surrender to Krishna, what if _____________?
What must change inside of you – or what must you do – to be able to more fully accept and embrace Krishna’s loves for you and more fully reciprocate with His love?
What realizations did you get from doing this exercise?