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Quote Found By Pratyatoṣa Dāsa
“So Kṛṣṇa said: “Yes that is My first business.” Yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad dhanam sanaih. “If I specially favor anybody, then I take away all his sources of income.” Very dangerous. Yes. I have got my practical experience in this connection. Yes. That is Kṛṣṇa’s special favor.”
(Lecture—Los Angeles, 19 April, 1973)
Quotes Found by Mithilā Dāsa
“It is said by the Lord: yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih. The Lord told Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja that His special favor is shown to His devotee when He takes away all the devotee’s material opulences.”
(Srimad-Bhagavatam 4.22.36 Purport)
“This principle is stated by the Supreme Personality of Godhead—yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih: ‘My first mercy shown to My devotee is to take away all his material opulence.’”
(Srimad-Bhagavatam 4.30.19 Purport)
“As stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.88.8): yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih. Lord Kṛṣṇa says that He takes everything away from the devotee whom He especially favors when that devotee is overly attached to material possessions.”
(Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.14.10 Purport)
“On the contrary, it is said in the Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.88.8), yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih. If one is too materialistic but at the same time wants to be a servant of the Supreme Lord, the Lord, because of His supreme compassion for the devotee, takes away all his material opulences and obliges him to be a pure devotee of the Lord. Prahlāda Mahārāja distinguishes between the pure devotee and the pure master.”
(Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.10.5 Purport)
“As stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.88.8), yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih. The Lord said to Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, ‘The first installment of My mercy toward a devotee is that I take away all his possessions, especially his material opulence, his money.’ This is the special favor of the Lord toward a sincere devotee. If a sincere devotee wants Kṛṣṇa above everything but at the same time is attached to material possessions, which hinder his advancement in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, by tactics the Lord takes away all his possessions.”
(Srimad-Bhagavatam 8.19.32 Purport)
“The Lord says, yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih. As the first installment of His special favor, the Lord takes away all the possessions of His devotee.”
(Srimad-Bhagavatam 8.21.28 Purport)
“Yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih: the Lord bestows special favor upon His devotee by taking away all his material opulences.”
(Srimad-Bhagavatam 8.22.11 Purport)
“As it is said, yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih (Bhag. 10.88.8). It is by the mercy of the Lord that one gets all material opulence, but if such material opulence causes one to become puffed up and forget the process of self-realization, the Lord certainly takes all the opulence away. …But material opulence is sometimes dangerous because it diverts one’s attention to false prestige by giving one the impression that he is the owner and master of everything he surveys, although actually this is not the fact. To protect the devotee from such a misunderstanding, the Lord, showing special mercy, sometimes takes away his material possessions. Yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih.”
(Srimad-Bhagavatam 8.22.16 Purport)
“As stated by the Lord Himself, yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih: ‘I give My blessings to a person by taking away
his so-called opulence.’”
(Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.25.17 Purport)
“Lord Kṛṣṇa is very pleased with a devotee, He takes away his material property, as He states in Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.88.8): yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih. ‘To show special favor to a devotee, I take away all his material property.’”
(Adi 13.124 Purport)
“Kṛṣṇa replied, yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih: ‘Yes,
that is My first business. If I especially favor someone, then I
take away all his sources of income and place him into great
difficulty.’”
(TQK 10: The Property of the Impoverished)
“So sometimes Kṛṣṇa shows the mercy to turn His devotee into
poverty-stricken position. Yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih.”
(Lecture—Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.6—Calcutta, February 26, 1974)
“So Kṛṣṇa said: ‘Yes that is My first business.’ yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih. ‘If I specially favor anybody, then I
take away all his sources of income.’”
(Lecture—Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.8.27—Los Angeles, April 19, 1973)
“Yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih. Just like he did
with the Pāṇḍavas. The Pāṇḍavas were devotees, but at the same
time, they were king. There was attachment. So therefore Kṛṣṇa took
away their everything—their kingdom, their wife, their position,
their honor—test him, and still, they did not give up Kṛṣṇa.”
(Lecture—Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.13.11—Geneva, June 2, 1974)
“Yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih. Kṛṣṇa has taken away
everything. You have no other alternative than to remain here.
(laughter) That is Kṛṣṇa’s special grace.”
(Lecture—Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.16.23—Hawaii, January 19, 1974)
“Yasyaham anugrhnami, er, yasya ahaṁ anugrhnami, anugrhnami… I forget now. Kṛṣṇa says that “When I shows to somebody special favor, I take away all his possessions.” That is special favor.”
(Lecture—Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.16.23—Hawaii, January 19, 1974)
“So this is answered by Kṛṣṇa, yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih, ‘My first benediction to my devotee is that I
take away all his riches. That’s all. Then when he becomes
helpless, he becomes firmly convinced and he has no other
shelter.’”
(Lecture—Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.2—Hyderabad, April 13, 1975)
“Kṛṣṇa answered that yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih:
“My dear brother, Yudhiṣṭhira, My first evidence of mercy to My
devotee is to plunder all his wealth, whatever he has got. You see?
Whatever he has got, I take it away. Then he tries again to
accumulate some money. Again I take it away.”
(Lecture—Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.6.1—San Francisco, March 6, 1967)
“‘My dear Yudhiṣṭhira, the first test of a devotee is that I, if I
show him special favor, then I take away all his wealth.’ Why? Why
this sort of special favor? Because this material attachment is so
great that one cannot go to Kṛṣṇa.”
(Lecture—Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.10-11—Montreal, July 14, 1968)
“Yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih: ‘If I do somebody
some special favor, then My first duty is I become him crushed in
all material possessions.’”
(Lecture—Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.118-119—New York, November 23, 1966)
“Kṛṣṇa said, yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih: ‘My
first favor is that I take away all riches of My devotee.’”
(Lecture—New York, April 17, 1969)
“Yasyaham anughrnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih. Kṛṣṇa says that “If I do somebody special favor, then I make him poverty-stricken. I take away all his means of sense enjoyment.” You see? That is stated in the Srimad-Bhagavatam.”
(Lecture—Day After Śrī Gaura-Purnima—Hawaii, March 5, 1969)
Prabhupāda: No, no. No, Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhāgavata, yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih, that “This is my mercy. The first test is that I take away everything, what he possesses.”
(Morning Walk—April 16, 1974, Bombay)
Prabhupāda: Yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih This is special favour of Kṛṣṇa because they, by this pious activity, they wanted this material enjoyment, which you are complaining, that they are reducing material enjoyment. But that is Kṛṣṇa’s favor.)
(Morning Walk—December 24, 1975, Bombay)
Prabhupāda: …Kṛṣṇa says, yasya anugrhni harisye… “Especially if I am very much anxious to get one reformed, by My mercy, the first thing is that I take away all his money.”
(Philosophical Discussion: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz)
Prabhupāda: …yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad dhanam sanaih, Kṛṣṇa said that “When I show somebody My special favor, I take away all his money,” I became shuddered, “So Kṛṣṇa will take my all money? If He’s…” And actually that happened. He took my all money, all family, all friends and everything. (laughs) And He asked me, “Go to America. You’ll get many money, much money, many friends. You go ahead, Come here.” Yes. That was His intention. And I was sticking to limited money, limited friends, limited society. This is special favor.)
(Room Conversation—November 3, 1973, New Delhi)
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