Vedic Thoughts
The Lord is not like a shopkeeper trying to please all sorts of customers in the mental speculator exchange. The Lord is what He is, the Absolute Personality of Godhead, and He demands absolute surrender unto Him only.
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.4.21, Purport
I continually glorified the Lord and meditated upon Him for millions of years, and at last I was able to understand the transcendental form of the Lord as Śrī Kṛṣṅa, in the dress of a cowherd boy.
Lord Brahmā Gopāla-tāpanī Upaniṣad 1.29
Persons intoxicated by worldly affairs of sense gratification and persons who subscribe to impersonal philosophy both maintain their lives uselessly, because they are devoid of devotion to the Lord.
Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura Śaraṅāgati
The greatest wonder in human society is this: People are so incorrigible that they reject the life-giving nectar of Lord Nārāyaṅa’s names and instead drink poison by speaking everything else.
King Kulaśekhara Mukunda-mālā-stotra 37
Always be intoxicated by singing the Lord’s holy names and glorifying the Lord’s pastimes. Then you will attain the treasure that is the Lord’s feet. You will attain the goal of life.
Śrī Rādhāmohana Dāsa (Follower of Caitanya Mahāprabhu) Untitled Song
The process of chanting the holy name of the Lord is so powerful that by this chanting even householders can very easily gain the ultimate result achieved by persons in the renounced order.
Śrī Nārada Muni Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.15.74
The Ganges, Yamuna, Godavari, and Sarasvati rivers, as well as all holy places of pilgrimage, reside where the transcendental topics of the infallible Supreme Personality of Godhead are narrated.
Author Unknown Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī’s Padyāvalī 2.14
The towns and cities on this earth that were dear to Lord Kṛṣṅa, and where He stayed and enjoyed pastimes, eternally exist in the spiritual world. In those places in the spiritual world, Lord Kṛṣṅa eternally enjoys pastimes.
Skanda Purāṅa Quoted in Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī’s Śrī Kṛṣṅa-sandarbha 106.26