Nothing Other than Krishna

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Dayananda: "My dear Lord, everyone within this material world under the

modes of material nature, being influenced by the mode of goodness, the mode of

passion, the mode of ignorance, all of them being influenced by the particular

mode of nature and working, all of them, including the greatest personality,

Lord Brahma, down to the smallest ant -- everyone is working under such

influence. Therefore everyone within this material world is influenced by Your

energy, under the cause of which they are working, the place where they are

working, the time when they are working, the matter for which they are working,

the ultimate goal of life as they have considered as final, and the process and

ways of activity -- all of them are nothing but different manifestation of Your

energy. And as the energy and energetic being identical, all such activities are

Your different forms of energy only."

 

Prabhupada:

 

yasmin yato yarhi yena ca yasya yasmad

yasmai yatha yad uta yas tv aparah paro va

bhavah karoti vikaroti prthak svabhavah

sancoditas tad akhilam bhavatah svarupam

[sB 7.9.20]

 

This is summarized in the Vedic language, sarvam khalv idam brahma.

Without Krsna there is nothing existing. In the Bhagavad-gita also it is said,

maya tatam idam sarvam. Whatever we see, very superior or inferior, good or bad,

that is all from Krsna. Bad is also Krsna? Yes. Bad is also Krsna because there

cannot be anything existing without Krsna, no existential position.

Mat-sthani...

 

maya tatam idam sarvam

jagad avyakta-murtina

mat-sthani sarva-bhutani

[bg. 9.4]

 

Everything existing on Krsna. This material energy -- earth, water, fire,

air, sky -- that is Krsna's energy. Bhinna me prakrtir astadha. They are also

Krsna's energies. Opposite elements also. Just like heat and cold. So they are

opposite. Sitosna. Sita means winter, and usna means summer, warm and cold,

cool. We see practically that the expert electrician by the same electric energy

is running on the heater and the cooler. The cooler is also working under

electric energy, and the heater is also working. So ephemerally heat is opposite

to coolness, and coolness is opposite to heat. But both of them are working

under the same energy; simply it is a question of adjustment by the expert

electrician. So God is one, and His energy is also one, and there is no

separation of energy from the energetic. Just like fire and heat. Heat cannot be

separated from fire. But still, heat is not fire. I may be heated by high

temperature, but if there is fire, then I will be burned -- different action --

although both of them are the same, heat and fire. Therefore the conclusion

should be sarvedam akhilam jagat parasya brahmanah sakti. Parasya. Parasya means

"of the Supreme Brahman." Supreme Brahman is Krsna. Isvarah paramah krsnah [bs.

5.1]. And Arjuna also accepts Krsna as Parabrahman. So everything is Krsna.

Therefore Krsna said, maya tatam idam sarvam jagad avyakta-murtina: [bg. 9.4] "I

am spread all over the creation.' Avyakta-murtina. But you cannot see Krsna.

Here we know there is air, there is ether, there is light, there is heat --

everything is here. We can see it, experience it, but avyakta-murtina -- Krsna

is invisible, imperson. That is the difference between person and imperson.

There are philosophers who think that the Absolute Truth is person, and there

are other philosophers, they think the Absolute Truth is imperson. But we

followers of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, we accept both. He is person and imperson also

at the same time, simultaneously. Acintya-bhedabheda-tattva.

 

So this is very nice philosophy. We have to understand very clearly this

position, the grammatical difference. What is called? The nominative? What is

called in Sanskrit? Karaka? Karta karaka, karma karaka, like that? Yes.

Different things are being done under different situation. They are called

karaka. Somebody was working as the person; another is objective; another is

causative; another is dative; another is relative. In this way it is explained

here, yatha yena yasmai yasmat. So these are the karaka, different position of

activities. But all these different positions can be adjusted into one. That is

Krsna, Brahman. Eko brahma dvitiya nasti. Only Krsna is there, nothing except

Krsna. That understanding, that there is something other than Krsna, that

conception, "other than Krsna," is called maya. Actually there is nothing except

Krsna, but due to our imperfect knowledge we think there is something other than

Krsna. There is nothing other than Krsna. Everything is Krsna. Krsna says, maya

tatam idam...

 

In other place also it is said that eka-desa-sthitasyagneh.

 

eka-desa-sthitasya agner

jyotsna vistarini yatha

parasya brahmanah saktih

sarvam idam akhilam jagat

 

Just like this light is there. Light is in one localized place. Then

another... These examples are very easy to be understood, that the sun... Sun

globe you see in the morning. It is there, but the heat and light is expanded,

two energies. With the sunshine, with the sunlight, we get light, sunshine, and

at night we are shivering in cold, and there is heat -- no more shivering. So

two things are emanating from the sun, two energies: heat and light. The

physicists, their whole study of physical nature is based on this heat and

light, and nothing else. So similarly, Krsna has got two energies: heat and

light. Here in this material world we can feel the heat. The things are going on

very nicely without any change. The sun is rising exactly at 6:15, and the whole

day working, and again in the evening exactly at 5:30 it is setting. So this

material world is that heat. Just like I am sitting here, I feel heat --

immediately I shall be warm. There must be some fire; otherwise wherefrom the

heat is coming? "See where there is fire." If there is smoke, then one should

understand there is fire. I have seen practically in Nainital, very high hill,

and there was smoke. So I asked the station master that "Why there is smoke?" So

he said, "There is forest fire." So nobody goes there to set fire, but there is

fire. By the smoke, one can understand there is fire. Similarly, we should try

to understand there is presence of Krsna by the heat and light; two energies,

spiritual energy and material energy. The spiritual energy means light. You can

see directly Krsna. You can talk with Him. You can deal with Him. And the

material world the heat is there. The Krsna's energy is working. Parasya

brahmanah saktih. Without Krsna's energy, how everything is taking place? And He

is explaining. He says, mayadhyaksena [bg. 9.10]. Mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate

sa-caracaram. Don't be rascal, that "This material nature is working

automatically." This is rascal's. Material nature is not working independently,

not by accident. It is not accident that exactly at 6:30 or 6:15 the sun is

rising. Do you think accident takes place every day? One day you may say, "The

sun is rising at 6:30 by accident." But daily? What is this rascaldom?

 

So those who support this accident theory, they are simply rascals. How

accident can take place exactly in the same time and in the same way, exactly in

the same season changing? And the flowers are coming. The atmosphere is

different. Is that accident? Less intelligent, mudha. They will not agree that

it is being done by God, by the direction of..., mayadhyaksena [bg. 9.10].

Adhyaksa means direction. So the sun, moon, or anything material that is

working, we see they are working very wonderfully, but don't think that they are

working automatically or independently. No. That is not possible. The foolish

man may think like that, "automatically." No, there is no automatically, no

accident. Therefore, yena yasmad yatah yad uta, superior, inferior -- everything

is systematically being done according to the desire. They say, "Not a blade of

grass moves without the desire of Krsna." That's a fact. Without Krsna's

desire... Every step we are going forward, it is guided by Krsna. It is not

directly by Krsna but through the instrument of Krsna. This is nature. Nature is

nothing but instrument. Durga. Durga. Srsti-sthiti-pralaya-sadhana-saktir eka

chayeva yasya bhuvanani vibharti durga [bs. 5.44]. This Durga energy. Durga

energy means this material energy. Durga. Durga means fort. We are packed up

within this fort. You see the round sky. It is just like a football. And within,

we are packed up. Just like the soldiers, they are within the fort or there are

other persons also, similarly, this is a durga. Durga. Duh means difficult, and

ga means going. Dur-ga. So because the nature is feminine, therefore it is

called Durga. So just like in the fort, in the jail, if you are put, it is

dur-ga, very difficult to come out, very, very difficult. Duh means it is not so

easy. Therefore it is called dur-ga. You cannot enter in the fort or in the

jail. Big, big walls, you cannot enter there without permission, and you cannot

come out without permission. That is called durga. So this Durga, or

durga-sakti, material energy, very, very powerful. You cannot come out from this

fort of material existence without superior permission. That is Krsna's

permission. Mayadhyaksena: [bg. 9.10] "Under My vigilence, under My

superintendence."

 

So Durga-devi is keeping you captivated. When Krsna says, "Let him go,"

immediately released. Immediately you are released. And when Krsna says, "Keep

him under your control," so you have to remain. So we are captivated now within

this material world. We are announcing that "We are independent. Whatever we

like, we can do." These are all foolishness. You are entangling yourself, simply

entangling. A little mistake -- you'll have to suffer. Just like in our daily

affairs you can eat so much. A little more eating means disturbance in the

digestion. You are so much under the control of nature. But these rascals, they

do not understand it. They declare, "Freedom."

 

prakrteh kriyamanani

gunaih karmani sarvasah

ahankara-vimudhatma

kartaham iti manyate

[bg. 3.27]

 

These rascals, vimudha, mudha, very strongly mudhas. Ahankara-vimudhatma.

That false egotism -- "Oh, I am very big man. I am so intelligent. I am so

learned. I have got money" -- this is ahankara. This is called false ahankara.

This is also... If you actually have got money, that's all right; you can say,

"I have got money." But you have nothing, not a farthing, and still, somehow or

other, because you have got some money, you say, "I have got money." That is not

your money; that is Krsna's money. Isavasyam idam sarvam [iso mantra 1].

Everything belongs to Krsna, you rascal. You do not know. You are thinking that

it is your money. That is ahankara-vimudhatma. Now where you are going? You are

giving up this body, so take your money with you. How can you take? The money is

there, the body is there, the family is there, the house is there -- everything

left. Now you go and become a dog. You have treated just like a dog. You have

treated just like a hog. Now you take the body of a... Now your money, your

family, your society, your house -- left. So how you can claim, "It is mine"?

The ahankara-vimudhatma. These rascals, under false egoism, thinking, "This is

mine. This is..." Real sense is isavasyam idam. It is all Krsna's.

 

So service means that Krsna's things should be engaged in Krsna's service,

that's all. You have nothing to earn. Everything Krsna's. Just like in India

you'll find, there are many devotees. If you go to the Ganges, they are taking

bath, and they are offering worship to the Ganges. What is that worship? Now,

you take little water from the Ganges, and with mantra you again throw it down.

So that water you are offering to the Ganges, is it your property? That water

you have taken from the Ganges, but with devotion, if you say, "Mother Ganges,

Gangaji, it is your thing. Please take my offering," then mother Ganges is

pleased. Similarly, everything belongs to Krsna. The sooner you offer to Krsna

whatever you have got, that is your triumph. And so long you keep it -- "It is

my property" -- Then you are a fool. Then you are a fool number one. You cannot

keep it; it is false. Just like a child, he has taken some notes from the

father, and he'll not give it, and father is asking, "Ah, my dear child, you are

so good. You take little lozenges. You give these note." It is going like that.

Krsna is begging, patram puspam phalam toyam yo... [bg. 9.26]. (end)

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.20 -- Mayapur, February 27,

1976