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So Krsna 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 Krsna’s special favor.”
(Lecture—Los Angeles, 19 April, 1973)
Quotes Found by Mithila Dasa
It is said by the Lord: yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih. The Lord told Yudhisthira Maharaja 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 Krsna 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. Prahlada Maharaja 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 Maharaja Yudhisthira, ‘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 Krsna above everything but at the same time is attached to material possessions, which hinder his advancement in Krsna 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 Krsna 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)
Krsna 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 Krsna 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 Krsna 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 Pandavas. The Pandavas were devotees, but at the same time, they were king. There was attachment. So therefore Krsna took away their everything—their kingdom, their wife, their position, their honor—test him, and still, they did not give up Krsna.
(Lecture—Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.13.11—Geneva, June 2, 1974)
Yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih. Krsna has taken away everything. You have no other alternative than to remain here. (laughter) That is Krsna’s special grace.
(Lecture—Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.16.23—Hawaii, January 19, 1974)
Yasyaham anugrhnami, er, yasya aham anugrhnami, anugrhnami… I forget now. Krsna 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 Krsna, 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)
Krsna answered that yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih: “My dear brother, Yudhisthira, 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 Yudhisthira, 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 Krsna.
(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—Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila 20.118-119—New York, November 23, 1966)
Krsna 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. Krsna 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 Sri gaura-purnima—Hawaii, March 5, 1969)
Prabhupada: No, no. No, Krsna says in the Bhagavata, 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)
Prabhupada: Yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih This is special favour of Krsna because they, by this pious activity, they wanted this material enjoyment, which you are complaining, that they are reducing material enjoyment. But that is Krsna’s favor.)
(Morning Walk—December 24, 1975, Bombay)
Prabhupada: …Krsna 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)
Prabhupada: …yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad dhanam sanaih, Krsna said that When I show somebody My special favor, I take away all his money, I became shuddered, So Krsna 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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