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Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.48

Vrndavana, April 3, 1976
Pusta Krsna: "My dear Supreme Lord, You are actually the air, fire, earth, sky, water, the objects of perception, the five senses, the mind, consciousness, and false ego. You are everything subtle and gross, including the material elements, and anything expressed either by words or the mind. Indeed, these are nothing but You."
Prabhupada:
tvam vayur agnir avanir viyad ambu matrah
pranendriyani hrdayam cid anugrahas ca
sarvam tvam eva saguno vigunas ca bhuman
nanyat tvad asty api mano-vacasa niruktam
[SB 7.9.48]
This is all-pervasive description of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In more simplified way it has been described in the Srimad-Bhagavad-gita, maya tatam idam sarvam: [Bg. 9.4] "I am all-pervasive." Avyakta-murtina. "That is also My feature." But this feature, Krsna with flute in the hand, that feature is not present. That is called avyakta. Everything is Krsna, but not in everything His original form is manifested. Maya tatam idam sarvam avyakta. Avyakta means nonmanifest, nonmanifested. He is everything. It can be compared just like your most intimate friend or family member is playing in the stage. So he is playing there, but still, you cannot recognize him. Nato natyadharo yatha, Kuntidevi has said. Just like the dramatist, the actor... He has dressed himself in such a way that although the actor is your very intimate friend or family, you cannot see. A child, suppose his father is a big actor. He is playing on the stage. So another family member says to the child, "You see your father." But he says, "Where is my father? Where is?" Nato natyadharo yatha. Everything Krsna. Krsna is everywhere, but because we are not Krsna conscious, we cannot see Him. We are challenging, "Can you show me Krsna?" You are seeing, but on account of material covering, you cannot see. Krsna is there. Andantara-stham paramanu-cayantara-stham. He is everywhere. That is Krsna. Goloka eva nivasaty akhilatma-bhutah [Bs. 5.37]. He is always in Goloka Vrndavana, but He is everywhere. That is Krsna. That is the difference between Krsna and ourself. We are sitting here, but we are not in our apartment. Limited. But Krsna is unlimited. That is the difference. By foolishness we claim to become Krsna, but that is foolishness. Krsna is not like that, although He is present before us.
Therefore Krsna says, avajananti mam mudha manusim tanum asritah [Bg. 9.11]. When Krsna comes just like ordinary human being and keeps with the Pandavas, people take Him as ordinary human being. That is mudha. Avajananti mam mudhah. In everything there is Krsna. Simply we have to purify our vision to see Krsna in every atom, everywhere, whatever we... That is the highest perfection of Krsna consciousness, and it is described in the Caitanya-caritamrta, sthavara-jangama dekhi na dekhe tara murti, sarvatra sphuraya tara ista deva murti [Cc. Madhya 8.274]. When one is fully advanced in Krsna consciousness, he sees this world... The world is full of sthavara-jangama. Some things, some articles, are moving; some articles are not moving. Just like treeit is not moving, but an animal is moving. This is sthavara-jangama. So he is seeing the tree or the animals or the hill or the water or the river or the ground. So because he is advanced in Krsna consciousness, he sees nothing but Krsna everywhere. Sthavara-jangama dekhi na dekhe tara murti. He does not see anything else except Krsna. And actually that is the fact. Simply we have to purify our eyes, then we can see in everything. He is in the atom even. Andantara-stham paramanu-cayantara-stham. But because we are not qualified, therefore we cannot see. One who is qualified, he can see. There is no question of seeing Krsna in a particular place.
The other day in Delhi, somebody questioned that "If God is everywhere, what is the use of going to the temple to see Him?" Just see how contradictory it is. If God is everywhere, why He is not in the temple? But these foolish persons, they do not know what he is questioning. Krsna is everywhere. Just like the electricity is everywhere, but when you catch the switch, then it is under your control. Electricity is everywhere, but still, by arrangement we can touch the electricity or take it into service by preparing electric wiring and switch. Similarly, Krsna is everywhere, and you can worship Krsna from anything. Everyone knows that this Deity is made of stone. The ground floor, the marble stone, black and white, and the Deity is also black and white. Everyone knows. But why you see the black and white Deity in this temple and gather together and offer prayer? Is it the same marble of the ground, black and white? That means you are seeing in a different position. That is love, love of Krsna. Those who haven't got the love, they are seeing that "The same stone on the floor and same stone in the Deity. What these foolish men are worshiping?" They say that "I can worship this stone also." No, no. Krsna says, "Yes, that is... The stone on the floor, that is also I am, but I am not present there." This is called acintya-bhedabheda. "Yes, stone I am also, but I am not there at the same time."
These foolish persons, they do not know. They think that "If Krsna has spread Himself in everything, then He has lost Himself. So He has no more form," their material calculation. This is called material calculation. I have several times given you the example. You take a big piece of paper and make it small pieces, and you throw it in the air. The big sheet of paper is no longer existing. It is finished. So their calculation is like that, that "If Krsna is all-pervasive, then where is His form? His form is finished." This is their character. But that is nonsense. That is Krsna, that maya tatam idam sarvam: "I am spread everywhere, all-pervasive. But in My person I am not there." Maya tatam idam sarvam jagat avyakta-murtina, mat-sthani sarva-bhutani [Bg. 9.4]. But a devotee should understand that Krsna is on the throne and Krsna is on the floor. Therefore we should be very careful to take care of the floor, to take care of the throne, to take care of the flower, to take care of the dishes. Everything you should worship like Krsna. That is... You cannot neglect anything. Sri-vigraharadhana-nitya-nana-srngara-tan-mandira marjanadau **. Everything one. You cannot say, "Krsna is here, sitting. I can neglect this floor." That is foolishness. You should take as much care to worship the Deity, to decorate the Deity, as much care to keep the temple very, very cleansed. That is Krsna conscious. You cannot... You cannot say that "He is working on the garden; therefore he is inferior. I am working directly on the Krsna altar." No. The person who is working in the garden, Krsna's garden, he should be as careful as the man who is worshiping the Deity in the temple. That is wanted. Krsna has expanded. Maya tatam idam sarvam. Tatam means expansion. This is Krsna consciousness. You cannot neglect anything, because everything is Krsna. You should worship everything. Don't neglect anything. Krsna is everything, varieties. At the same time, He is in His original form. The original form is not there, but everything is Krsna. This is simulta... Acintya-bhedabheda-tattva, inconceivably, simultaneously one and different. This philosophy, Caitanya Mahaprabhu's philosophy, you should always remember. Don't neglect anything of Krsna. Everything should be, every small thing. It is Krsna's. It is worshipable.
Therefore Prahlada Maharaja is describing the same thing, tvam vayur agnir avanih. The same thing, ksitir ap tej marud vyoma. Vayu. Krsna is air. Krsna is fire. Krsna is earth. Krsna is water. Krsna is sky. Krsna is everything. Even the small, very, very minute particle, atom, that is also Krsna. So if we always remember like that, our Krsna consciousness will be very, very strong and established. That is wanted. Sthavara-jangama dekhi na dekhe tara murti [Cc. Madhya 8.274]. Why people come here? You have seen while you are walking, a devotee. He was taking the dust, Raman Reti, and putting on his head. This is Vrndavanathe dust. Vrndavana dust is also Krsna. Vrndavana dust is also Krsna. So aradhyo bhagavan vrajesa-tanaya tad dhamam vrndavanam. This is the verdict of the acaryas. Vrajendra-nandana, Hari, Krsna, He is worshipable, everyone knows. But His dhama, Vrndavana, is also as good as Krsna. It is also worshipable. Therefore so many devotees, they are keeping strictly in Vrndavana. This is the idea. We should not consider Vrndavana... Not even Vrndavana. Everywhere. Not that we limit Krsna within Vrndavana. That is special, because Krsna came here and displayed His pastimes, a special significance. But wherever you are in Krsna consciousness, that is Vrndavana. Just like Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Wherever He was going He said that "It is Vrndavana." After taking sannyasa He was in Bengal, and He was thinking the Ganges as Yamuna.
So these are not to be copied or imitated. Gradually, as we advance, we can understand that how Krsna is all-pervasive. And something is described in the Bhagavad-gita... You cannot say that "I have not seen Krsna." This is, I mean to say, foolishness. They say, "Can you show me Krsna?" But thing is that he has no eyes to see Krsna. Krsna can be seen. Premanjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena [Bs. 5.38]. If you increase your love for Krsna, then you can see Krsna every moment, everywhere. That is the way. Premanjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santah sadaiva hrdayesu vilokayanti. Those who are advanced, saintly persons, they see always Krsna. That stage you have to reach. That is the idea. Sarvam tvam eva saguno vigunas ca bhuman. Bhuman means the great. That is greatness of Krsna. "God is great." We should understand how great He is. This is the understanding of His greatness. Bhuman. If simply we say God is great and kupa-mandukya-nyaya... You know the story, the frog within the well. So some friend says that "I have seen a great mass of water, Atlantic Ocean." And how he can imagine what is Atlantic Ocean? He is thinking, "That water may be like this well, three feet. All right, accept four feet. Accept five feet. I can..." These rascals who does not know Krsna, they think, "All right, Krsna may be a little more intelligent than me. That's all." In this way they are thinking. But here it is called bhuman. Bhuman means all-pervading. Sarvam tvam eva saguno vigunas ca bhuman nanyat tvad asty api mano-vacasa niruktam. Even if you think that the sky is very, very great, that is also Krsna. And if you think the atom is very, very small, that is also Krsna. There is no, nothing greater than Krsna, nothing smaller than Krsna. These are two contradictory things. So simply if... "Krsna is simply as big as the sky"the Mayavadi philosophy"He cannot be small like the Deity." That is their mistake. He is as big as the sky and as small as the atom. In the intermediate stage, He is everything. Why He cannot be smaller like the Deity, small Deity, so that I may have the facility to serve Him? I cannot serve Krsna when He's as big as the sky. That is not possible. I cannot decorate Him when He shows His virat-rupa. I think the whole world's, all the mills, they cannot supply cloth. (laughter) But Krsna agrees to become very small. With little cloth I can dress Him. And Krsna accepts. Yo me bhaktya prayacchati. Even little small piece of cloth the devotee is covering Krsna and thinking that "I am dressing nicely." Krsna accepts that. That is Krsna. Yes.
So anor aniyan mahato mahiyan. Krsna is so kind, He is ready to accept your service. Patram puspam phalam toyam yo me bhaktya prayacchati [Bg. 9.26]. Simply you require to become a devotee. That is the qualification.
Thank you very much.
Devotees: Jaya Prabhupada! (end)

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