relativity

So we have to see through the authorized books the description which is beyond our perception. Acintyaḥ khalu ye bhava na tams tarkena yojayet [Mahabharata, Bhisma-parva 5.22]. Tarkena, by argument, which is beyond your sense perception. So many things. Even we see daily so many planets, stars in the sky, but we have no information. They are going directly to see the moon planet, but hopelessly coming back. It is very doubtful to say so. And they have got dogmatic impression: "Except this planet, in other planets, so many, there is no life." These are not perfect understanding. So from sastra-yoni, if you want to see through the sastra...    (More...)

But that is not possible. Desire must be there. Because I am living there, living being, I must have desires. That is the symptom. A stone has no desire, but a living being, however small, insignificant ant, it has got desire. The insignificant ant gets information that in the other corner of the room, which is one hundred miles for the ant... Because the world is relative, relative world, so this length of the room, from this corner to the other corner, for an ant it is hundred miles, yes, because the world is relative according to the size, atomic size, the distance. Now we have got speedy aeroplane, the distance has reduced. Distance from Honolulu to India, if you go by land it will be ten thousand miles, but... It is ten thousand miles, but the speedy aeroplane has reduced. So relatively... Everything is relative. This is called relative world. Dar... What is...? Professor Einstein, he has proved the law of relativity. So the ant, he has to go, to pick up one grain of sugar, by going hundred miles in his capacity. But it will go. That is desire. You have got experience. You put little sugar here. You don't invite ants, but they'll come. They'll come. They'll get immediately information. Just like from Europe many people came in America-gold rush desire. So desire must be there. The ant has desire; Lord Brahma has desire; I have got desire; you have got desire. This is artificial, to make desireless. That is not possible. Therefore bhakti means to purify the desire. That is bhakti. Anyabhilasita-sūnyam.    (More...)

We can understand that, that the material comforts in the Western country are better than in this country. Similarly, ūrdhvam gacchanti sattva-sthaḥ: we can go to the higher planetary systems; we get more duration of life. Just like Brahma has got very, very long, millions and millions of years to our calculation. Just like the insect who comes, attacks us at night. Their duration of life? That night only. Within the night they are born, they have sex life, and they beget children and increase the population, and as soon as the night finished, all finished. They have got also duration of life. And if you say to them that "There is another animal called man. This night is only twelve hours, and he has got day, another twelve hours. In this way, one month. In... Thirty days. And then..." He becomes surprised: "How it is possible?" Similarly, when we calculate the age of Brahma, we become astonished: "How such millions and millions of years...?" Because we, in comparison to Brahma, we are like insect.    (More...)

So this is scientific. This world is relative. This is relative world. According to your position, you get. The time is also relative. What is present..., past, present, future for you, that is not past, present, future for others. So what is past, present for Brahma, that is not past, present, future for us. Everything is relative. And in the creation of Krsna there are so many relativities. Therefore it is called relative world. Time is eternal, but on account of our relative birth and death, we make our own past and present. Otherwise, time is eternal. Therefore, for Krsna, there is no such thing as past, present and future. Because He is He, He's time eternal. Therefore He knows everything. Vedaham. Just like you know, present, everything-there is no past; there is no future-similarly, for Krsna there is no such, past and future. Therefore He could say that "Formerly, millions and trillions of years ago," according to Arjuna's calculation, "I spoke this Bhagavad-gita to sun-god." He did not believe it, because he is relatively calculating past and present. But Krsna is not within that past and present. Therefore Krsna said that "Both you, you and Me, we appear many times." Bahūni me vyatitani. "And you were also. But you forget, because you have got past, present, future. I have no such thing. Therefore I remember."    (More...)

So the eternal form is Krsna, but Visnu, Maha-Visnu, who is the origin of material creation, kala-visesa, He is the expansion of the plenary expansion of Krsna: Vasudeva, Sahkarsana, Aniruddha, Pradyumna. In this way He is present everywhere. Anor aniyan mahato mahiyan. He is bigger than the biggest and the smaller than the smallest. Relativity. Now here we are small stature. So Krsna is present in a stature so that we can touch Him, we can dress Him, we can decorate Him. Similarly, in other planets... It is relative. The law of relativity is going on everywhere. Anor aniyan mahato mahiyan.    (More...)