Srila Prabhupada's Lecture - FOLKNet

not surrender unto Krishna. We are not manufacturing these words. These words are inthe Bhagavad-gita. If we study Bhagavad-gita, we have to accept the statements,Bhagavad-gita. Bhagavad-gita means the speeches which is delivered, or the songwhich is sung by the Supreme Personality of Godhead.So our Krishna consciousness movement is to preach all over the world that Krishnas tubhagavan svayam [SB 1.3.28]. You are searching after God. You are taxing your brainso much. But in spite of taxing your brain, you say sometimes that "There is no God,"or "God is dead," or "Everyone is God," and so on, so on. But our proposition is thatwhy you are taxing your brain? Here is God. Here is God, Krishna. By authorities, byVedic version, by His activities. If we read life of Krishna, we can see that He's Krishna,God, from the very beginning of His birth. God is not manufactured by some mysticpower. God is God, and dog is dog. A dog cannot become God; God cannot becomedog. That is the difference.So Krishna was God from the very beginning. As soon as Krishna took birth, Heappeared in four-handed Visnu-murti. But when He was prayed by His mother tobecome an ordinary child, He became an ordinary child with two hands. So that isGod, from the very beginning. Not that, by attaining some mystic power, one canbecome God. You can have some power, godly... You have already power. Becausewe are, every one of us is a part and parcel of God. Therefore godly qualities are there.But you cannot become cent percent God. That is not possible. That is not possible.There, they..., they have been analyzed. All the demigods and living entities, they havebeen analyzed by great stalwart people, and it has been found that Krishna is centpercent God. Krishnas tu bhagavan svayam. Ete camsa-kalah pumsah Krishnas tubhagavan svayam [SB 1.3.28]. All others... There are many other gods. Then godsmeans not the Supreme God. Isvarah paramah Krishnah [Bs. 5.1].We are speaking of the paramah isvarah, or Paramesvara. There are two words: isvara,paramesvara; atma, paramatma. That param is God. We are Brahman; Parabrahman.So Parabrahman, Paramatma, Paramesvara, all these are applicable to Krishna. Just likeArjuna, after hearing Bhagavad-gita, he admitted, param brahma param dhamapavitram paramam bhavan, purusam sasvatam adyam [Bg. 10.12]. That is the positionof Krishna. Adi-purusam. Govindam adi-purusam. Krishna also says, in the Bhagavadgita,aham adir hi devanam [Bg 10.2]. Devanam, Brahma, Visnu, Mahesvara... Then,after Brahma, Visnu, Mahesvara, there are other demigods, Indra, Candra, Varuna, somany. So Krishna says, aham adir hi devanam. Aham sarvasya prabhavah. He's theorigin of everything. Aham sarvasya prabhavo mattah sarvam pravartate [Bg. 10.8]."Everything emanates from Me." In the Vedanta-sutra also the Absolute Truth isdescribed as janmady asya yatah [SB 1.1.1]. The Absolute Truth is that from whomeverything emanates.5 www.folknet.in