The Father of Everyone

Actually God has no name, but names are given to Him according to His activities. For example, we are chanting God's name "Krsna" because "Krsna" means "all-attractive." How is God all-attractive? We can get some idea from our conception of attractiveness in this material world. One is attractive in this material world if he is very rich, very powerful, very wise, beautiful, famous or renounced. Thus one may become attractive in six ways. The Vedic literature states:

This verse indicates that God is all-attractive because He is the richest of all, He is the strongest, the most beautiful, the most wise, the most renounced and the most famous.

Our position-we human beings who are sitting in this hall, as well as all other living beings-is that we are all sons of God. Krsna states in Bhagavad-gita:

"It should be understood that all the species of life, O son of Kunti, are made possible by birth in this material nature, and that I am the seed-giving father." [Bg 14.4] Thus according to the Vedic conception, all living entities in all forms of life are parts and parcels of God. Your Bible says that in the beginning there was only the Word and that the Word was God. Therefore, God existed before the creation. And where did all the created creatures come from? They came from God. Thus all of the 8,400,000 species of creatures were made by God.

He who creates must be the father, for even in the material sense, it is the father who creates his children. How can we deny that this is so? Here in the Bible it is said that all things were created by Him. One cannot whimsically deny the authoritative statements of the Vedas or the Bible. Therefore, He is the father of everything. When you go to the church, you pray, "Father, give us our daily bread." This indicates that He is the father of everyone. Therefore here it is clearly said, "All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made." This is perfect knowledge.