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Pusta Krsna: Translation: "My dear Lord, You alone manifest Yourself as the entire cosmic manifestation because before the creation of this cosmic manifestation You were existing, and You exist also after the annihilation. Therefore, between the beginning and the end, You are the maintainer. All these things are being done by Your external energy through the action and reaction of the three modes of material nature. Therefore the conclusion is that whatever is existing, it is You only, externally and internally."
Prabhupada: ekas tvam eva jagad etam amusya yat tvam ady-antayoh prthag avasyasi madhyatas ca srstva guna-vyatikaram nija-mayayedam naneva tair avasitas tad anupravistah [SB 7.9.30] |
Very interesting. This is realization of God. There is difference, varieties; at the same time they're one, unity in variety. So in the Brahma-samhita also it is stated, eko 'py asau racayitum jagad-anda-koti. There are many millions of universes, jagad-anda-koti. Jagad-anda means this universe, and koti means millions. Don't think this is the only universe. There are many millions' universes. In God creation there is no limitation. Everything unlimited. Even this universe, to us it is a great, wonderful thing. We do not know even what are there in the four corners of this universe, millions and millions of stars, millions of planets, millions and millions of oceans, mountains, and what to speak of living entities? Everything unlimited. The universe... It is also stated in the Brahma-samhita, yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti [Bs. 5.40]. In the effulgence of Brahman... The example is also there. It is not very difficult. Just like in the sunshine is the effulgence, shine. Sun is there, and the shining is there, but within the shining there are innumerable planets. In the daytime we cannot see, but at night we can see wherefrom these stars and planets coming. They are already there. In the sunshine, due to the bright sunshine, we cannot see them, but they are existing. As our planet is existing within the sunshine, so similarly, there are millions of planets. They are also existing. Yasya... Similarly... Yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti [Bs. 5.40]. This is only universe, but these each universe, millions of universes, they are existing within the Brahman effulgence, brahmajyoti, both spiritual and material. Everything is there.
So this is the creation of the Supreme Lord. He says,
athava bahunaitena
kim jnatena tavarjuna
vistabhya aham idam krtsnam
ekamsena sthito jagat
[Bg. 10.42]
"I enter into this creation." Without spiritual creation, without spiritual entities, there cannot be development of material. That is our contention, that this material world has developed because Krsna has entered it. Anupravistah. It is said here clearly, tair avasitas tad anupravistah: "Because You have entered, therefore things have developed." Andantara-stham paramanu-cayantara... Without spiritual touch, nothing can develop. We have got practical experience that without the spirit soul, the body cannot develop. If a dead child comes out, the body does not develop. Because the spirit soul is there... So this nonsense theory that "Within the womb of the mother, unless the body is developed to seven months, there is no life," what is this nonsense? The body has developed to that seven months' condition because there is a spirit soul. Otherwise how it becomes seven months' developed? You'll find this description in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Therefore the knowledge received from Srimad-Bhagavatam is perfect. Any knowledge which does not corroborate with the knowledge in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, that is useless knowledge. Therefore, in the beginning of Srimad-Bhagavatam it is said, dharmah projjhita-kaitavo 'tra paramo nirmatsaranam satam vastava-vastu vedyam atra [SB 1.1.2]. Vastava-vastu, real knowledge. This is real knowledge. In the Bhagavata it is said, karmana daiva-netrena jantor deho upapatti: [SB 3.31.1] "A living entity gets a body," upapatti, "according to karma." Everything is stated there. After sex, the living entity takes shelter within the semina and ovum of the father and mother, and it be... It is... The formation is just like a small grain. That grain develops because the spirit soul has taken shelter. Then body... It is not that the body develops automatically, and at seven months there is life. No. Life... The consciousness may be there. That is another... Consciousness... Sometimes, if I am surcharged with anesthetics, if I am chloroformed, my consciousness is not there. That does not mean I am not there. Consciousness sometimes may be absent. One man fainted; there is no consciousness. That does not mean there is no life. There is life. The consciousness has not developed.
So this is the anupravistah. This is the fact. Matter cannot develop without the entrance of the spirit, either the spark of the spirit or the Supreme Spirit. Eko 'py asau racayitum jagad-anda-koti yac-chaktir asti jagad-anda-caya yad-antam, andantarastham: He enters. We have got many informations that this brahmanda, the Garbhodakasayi Visnu enters. Then, from His abdomen, the lotus flower stem is there. Then Brahma comes, and then Brahma creates. So the original creation or the beginning of the activities of this universe was first the entrance of Garbhodakasayi Visnu. The Maha-Visnu... Yasyaika-nisvasita-kalam athavalambya jivanti loma-vilaja jagad-anda-nathah [Bs. 5.48]. First of all this universe is one of the millions of universes who is coming out from the pores of the transcendental body of Maha-Visnu, and then Maha-Visnu, in the form of Garbhodakasayi Visnu, enters each and every universe, and then things takes place. Then Brahma is created. This is the process of creation. Anupravistah. The first entrance is of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. So actually, ekas tvam eva: "Whatever we are seeing, that is... You are." Aham sarvasya prabhavah [Bg. 10.8], the Bhagavad-gita says. Aham, that is one, Krsna. Mam ekam. That is one.
So actually everything is that same Krsna. In the Bhagavad-gita it further explains, aham... What is that? Maya tatam idam. Maya tatam idam sarvam. Sarvam, everything. Everything is expanded. Maya tatam idam. Tatam means expanded; idam, this universe or this world or everything, whatever you take... Maya tatam idam sarvam jagad avyakta-murtina [Bg. 9.4]. He... That is His avyakta, impersonal form. Everything is Krsna, but that does not mean that His personal form is finished. Because He is expanded everywhere... This is Mayavada theory, that "Because God has expanded in so many varieties, therefore God has no form." No. That is not the fact. Fact is, goloka eva nivasaty akhilatma-bhutah [Bs. 5.37]. He is... In His original sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah [Bs. 5.1] He is existing always in Goloka Vrn... He does not go anywhere, leaving aside His friends, father, mother, beloved, anywhere. He's always... Vrndavanam parityajya padam ekam na gacchati. He does not go anywhere. Padam ekam na gacchati. Just like a big man. We have got so many examples. A big man, he is sitting at his home. With family he's enjoying. But he is managing many, many hundreds of factories sitting there. We have got practical experience. Big, big business magnate, they do not come to the office, neither he goes to the factory. Simply by his order, telephone, "You do this," that's all. Things are going on. So if it is possible materially that one ordinary man, he can manage hundreds of factories and offices without going there, simply by his order, so how much powerful is Krsna, we have to imagine. Sad-aisvarya-purnah. Still, even a man or even a demigod... Just like demigod Indra: he's managing the affairs of rains, how to collect the clouds, how to disperse them, how... And there are management, so many managements. But all these managements are going on on the supreme management, Krsna. Therefore He says in the Bhagavad-gita that mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram [Bg. 9.10]. This is to be understood. That one Supreme Person, He is managing everything. The material and spiritual world, everything is being managed by Him. That is God. God is not so cheap. This is God.
So Prahlada Maharaja, Vaisnava, he understands that "You are the only origin of everything." Janmady asya yatah [SB 1.1.1]. Ekas tvam eva jagat. The cosmic manifestation is changing, but the real cause is ekas tvam eva: "My Lord, You are the..." Ekas tvam eva jagad etat amusya yat tvam: "The cause and effect both You are, the cause and effect." There is no different cause. Sarva-karana-karanam [Bs. 5.1]. That is also confirmed in the Brahma-samhita:
isvarah paramah krsnah
sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah
anadir adir govindah
sarva-karana-karanam
[Bs. 5.1]
He is cause and effect both, sarva-karana-karanam. Therefore Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita, maya tatam idam sarvam: [Bg. 9.4] "I am the original cause."
aham sarvasya prabhavo
mattah sarvam pravartate
iti matva bhajante mam
budha bhava-samanvitah
[Bg. 10.8]
Those who are actually devotee, just like Prahlada Maharaja, such devotee can understand it is only Krsna. He is, by His unlimited power, sad-aisvarya-purnah, He is exhibiting in different ways. Ekas tvam eva jagad etam amusya yat tvam adyam. The same thing you'll find. Vedic literature means there is no contradiction. Either you read this Veda or that Veda, it is not... People who are foolish, who cannot understand, they sometimes see contradiction. No. There is no contradiction. Same one law. Therefore, because we are limited, or our knowledge is limited, imperfect, therefore we should not argue. We shall accept what is stated in the Veda. And if we argue, then we'll find unnecessarily contradiction and we'll be misled. Don't argue. There is no question of... Veda-vacana. Veda-vacana means veda-pramana, sruti-pramana. This is the way of Vedic civilization. If you can prove something quoting from the Vedas, then you are victorious. Veda-pramana. Sruti-pramana. There are many evidences, but the first-class evidence is sruti-pramana. Sruti-smrti-puranadi-
So we cannot accept some rascal as God unless there is sruti-pramana, sruti-pramana, unless it is proved by the evidence of the sru... We accept Caitanya Mahaprabhu as the Supreme Personality of... Na caitanyat krsnat para-tattvam param iha. Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami says, na caitanyat krsnat. Na caitanyat krsnat. Caitanya is Krsna. As there is no para-tattva above Krsna, similarly, there is no para-tattva above Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Krsna says that mattah parataram nanyat: [Bg. 7.7] "There is no more superior truth than Me." And the same Krsna is Krsna Caitanya. Namo maha-vadanyaya krsna-prema-pradaya te, krsnaya krsna-caitanya-namne [Cc. Madhya 19.53]. Rupa Gosvami... Therefore we have to follow Rupa Gosvami. He says that "My Lord, Caitanya Mahaprabhu, You are Krsna. You have simply changed the name: Krsna Caitanya. You are Krsna." Similarly, Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya says that vairagya-vidya-nija-bhakti-
So we have got this opportunity of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's merciful movement, Hare Krsna movement. So take it very seriously and chant sri-krsna-caitanya prabhu-nityananda, sri-advaita gadadhara srivasadi-gaura-bhatka-vrnda. Krsna-varnam tvisakrsnam [SB 11.5.32]. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He is Krsna, Krsna, but now He's chanting Krsna. Krsnam varnayati. Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Hare Krsna. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Krsna krsna krsna krsna krsna krsna krsna he, krsna krsna... That is the... It is confirmed in the Vedas that "In the Kali-yuga the Lord will appear as this." Krsna-varnam tvisa akrsnam. He is always describing Krsna. When He was a teacher, that time also, He was explaining Krsna. When He was explaining grammar, He was explaining Krsna. Therefore Jiva Gosvami, understanding the desire of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, he compiled Hari-namamrta-vyakarana. In the vyakarana, in the grammar, all examples, all sandhis, samasa, everything with Hari. Hari-namamrta-vyakarana. Dhatu. When Caitanya Mahaprabhu was explaining dhatu... Dhatu has got different meaning. Dhatu means the life force, the vital force. So He was explaining that this dhatu means Krsna. When Krsna is not there, then life is finished. So the disciples who were students, they thought that "This person has gone mad." You see? So they criticized. So immediately Caitanya Mahaprabhu closed the patha-sala. So that is Krsna varnayati. In everything He was explaining Krsna. And when He was preaching, He talked with the Muhammadans, Afghans, and He proved from Koran there is Krsna devotion, from Koran. That is Krsna-varnayati. Krsna-varnam. Anywhere He will explain Krsna. Then nothing. And therefore He has advised everyone that yare dekha tare kaha krsna upadesa [Cc. Madhya 7.128]. This is Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Yare dekha tare kaha krsna upadesa. So one has to learn this art, how to explain Krsna in every step of life. That is Krsna consciousness movement.
Thank you very much. (end)
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.30 -- Mayapur, March 8, 1976
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