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  • I was a disconsolate Arjuna in a battered chariot without the benefit of Krishna's words.†   (source)
  • There is the story of baby Krishna, wrongly accused by his friends of eating a bit of dirt.†   (source)
  • If Brahman is to have only one son, He must be as abundant as Krishna with the milkmaids, no?†   (source)
  • I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd.†   (source)
  • I'll stick to my Krishna, thank you very much.†   (source)
  • Lord Krishna," she told him, "and offended against the sanctity of Night.†   (source)
  • No, but he is here with me-as are Krishna, and Kubera.†   (source)
  • At that moment, Krishna took his Aspect upon him, raising up the Attribute of divine drunkenness.†   (source)
  • Lord Krishna the Dark, however, chose that moment to blow upon his pipes.†   (source)
  • Yama, Kubera, Krishna, and if you're willing-Kalkin!†   (source)
  • Krishna declined battle and went off to play his pipes in Kaniburrha.†   (source)
  • The Lokapalas, you say, are Yama, Krishna, Kubera and yourself?†   (source)
  • I brought Krishna back, along with a load of firepacks, grenades and antipersonnel mines....†   (source)
  • Krishna put aside his pipes when the messenger was brought to him.†   (source)
  • The god Krishna had somehow preserved it against the ages.†   (source)
  • I really doubt Krishna or Vyasa had much to say about superstring theory and multidimensional cosmological models.†   (source)
  • From the sensuousness of a woman with a baby at her breast into the seductive mischief of Krishna's smile.†   (source)
  • Modern polarity is nothing but the 'dual world' described by Krishna here in the Bhagavad Gita over two thousand years ago.†   (source)
  • But the moment the girls become possessive, the moment each one imagines that Krishna is her partner alone, he vanishes.†   (source)
  • Then I raced down the hill on the left and raced up the hill on the right—to offer thanks to Lord Krishna for having put Jesus of Nazareth, whose humanity I found so compelling, in my way.†   (source)
  • I couldn't imagine Lord Krishna consenting to be stripped naked, whipped, mocked, dragged through the streets and, to top it off, crucified—and at the hands of mere humans, to boot.†   (source)
  • He identifies them for me with a pointed finger: Lakshmi; Shakti, the mother goddess, in the form of Par va ft; and Krishna, this time as a playful baby crawling on all fours.†   (source)
  • Two pictures rest behind a small altar: to the side, Ganesha again, and in the centre, in a larger frame, smiling and blue-skinned, Krishna playing the flute.†   (source)
  • It was Lord Krishna speaking.†   (source)
  • As for Ravi, if Lord Krishna had held a cricket bat rather than a flute, if Christ had appeared more plainly to him as an umpire, if the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, had shown some notions of bowling, he might have lifted a religious eyelid, but they didn't, and so he slumbered.†   (source)
  • Krishna does as he is told.†   (source)
  • Now we call it Shiva, Krishna, Shakti, Ganesha; we can approach it with some understanding; we can discern certain attributes—loving, merciful, frightening—and we feel the gentle pull of relationship.†   (source)
  • She sees in Krishna's mouth the whole complete entire timeless universe, all the stars and planets of space and the distance between them, all the lands and seas of the earth and the life in them; she sees all the days of yesterday and all the days of tomorrow; she sees all ideas and all emotions, all pity and all hope, and the three strands of matter; not a pebble, candle, creature, village or galaxy is missing, including herself and every bit of dirt in its truthful place.†   (source)
  • A dollar an hour to rent the old IBM Selectric seemed reasonable, but after five hours at downtown Berkeley's Krishna Copy Center, he'd only finished four letters.†   (source)
  • Of all the Celestial party, Krishna the Tireless does cause the greatest consternation among the staff.†   (source)
  • Of these, eleven were gods or goddesses, including Ratri, Sarasvati, Vayu, Mara, Lakshmi, Murugan, Agni and Krishna.†   (source)
  • But it was not the true magic we heard that night, for there is only one true Krishna-swart and hairy, his eyes so red and blazing.†   (source)
  • He played then upon his pipes one night, however, the hearing of which would have been enough to gain the old Krishna forgiveness for near anything.†   (source)
  • Krishna left his pipes upon the table.†   (source)
  • Another time, Krishna-when I am ready.†   (source)
  • "Lady, you are cruel," said Krishna.†   (source)
  • Krishna could be strong if he wished.†   (source)
  • Lord Krishna raised up his Aspect and played a music after which there is no music, and Guari the Fair relented and came to him once more, her heart softened, after he had finished.†   (source)
  • Dashing through the forest, clad in a leather belt, Lord Krishna pursued the Lady Ratri, who had declined to couple with him after the rehearsal dinner.†   (source)
  • And Lord Krishna.†   (source)
  • to bend their senses beyond themselves, bringing onto them all their Aspects, wherein he held them, rotating about the archetypes upon which they had based their powers, as Shiva danced in a graveyard the Dance of Destruction and the Dance of Time, celebrating the legend of his annihilation of the three flying cities of the Titans, and Krishna the Dark moved through the Wrestler's Dance in commemoration of his breaking of the black demon Bana, while Lakshmi danced the Dance of the Statue, and even Lord Vishnu was coerced into celebrating again the steps of the Dance of the Amphora, as Murugan, in his new body, laughed at the world clad in all her oceans, and did his dance of triump†   (source)
  • Perhaps Krishna?†   (source)
  • Krishna stood.†   (source)
  • Krishna?†   (source)
  • The message is that the Lokapalas-these being Yama, Krishna, Kubera and myself-will ride to battle with him against the gods, bringing all our supporters, powers, and machineries to bear upon them, if he will agree not to war against the followers of either Buddhism or Hinduism as they exist in the world, for purposes of converting them to his persuasion-and further, that he will not seek to suppress Accelerationism, as the gods have done, should we prove victorious.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, my interest in Krishna had vanished and also my pleasure in learned discussions.†   (source)
  • His awakening came—but with a surprising turn that throws into new perspective the whole problem of the hero-circuit, as well as the mystery of the mighty king's request for sleep as the highest conceivable boon, Visnu, the Lord of the World, had become incarnate in the person of a beautiful youth named Krsna (Krishna), who having saved the land of India from a tyrannical race of demons, had assumed the throne.†   (source)
  • He had pursued philosophy and music and had his fill of war and his Elsasser at the Steel Helmet and discussed Krishna with men of honest learning.†   (source)
  • He even went back to the subject of our former discussions and said once more how interesting and stimulating they had been and how deep an impression my theories about Mithras and Krishna had made on him at the time.†   (source)
  • Leave Krishna alone, and talk about something sensible.†   (source)
  • Krishna was the peon who should have brought the files from his office.†   (source)
  • I say to Shri Krishna, 'Come!†   (source)
  • Suddenly, closer than he had calculated, the palanquin of Krishna appeared from behind a ruined wall, and descended the carven glistening watersteps.†   (source)
  • After a silence—myriads of kisses around them as the earth drew the water in— he continued: " Do you know anything about this Krishna business?"†   (source)
  • The Professor dandled it and gave it to the Rajah, who, making a great effort, said, "I name this child Shri Krishna," and tumbled it into the cradle.†   (source)
  • Having swallowed the butter, they played another game which chanced to be graceful: the fondling of Shri Krishna under the similitude of a child.†   (source)
  • Gokul is the village where Krishna was born—well, more or less born, for there's the same hovering between it and another village as between Bethlehem and Nazareth.†   (source)
  • Less explicit than the call to Krishna, it voiced our loneliness nevertheless, our isolation, our need for the Friend who never comes yet is not entirely disproved.†   (source)
  • Krishna the earth, Krishna the stars replied, until the Englishman was appeased by their echoes, fined the absent peon eight annas, and sat down to his arrears in the next room.†   (source)
  • All culminated in the dance of the milkmaidens before Krishna, and in the still greater dance of Krishna before the milkmaidens, when the music and the musicians swirled through the dark blue robes of the actors into their tinsel crowns, and all became one.†   (source)
  • But the clock struck midnight, and simultaneously the rending note of the conch broke forth, followed by the trumpeting of elephants; all who had packets of powder threw them at the altar, and in the rosy dust and incense, and clanging and shouts, Infinite Love took upon itself the form of SHRI KRISHNA, and saved the world.†   (source)
  • Krishna!†   (source)
  • 'Ay, but that man had right and reason, for Krishna Himself appeared in a vision promising him Paradise without the burning-pyre if he journeyed to Prayag.†   (source)
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