Day-3

Who is God?
As per B.G, Lord Krishna personally declares that He
is that personality of Godhead. Godhead means the source
of everything and He says, I am the cause of all causes, the
source of everything. Sri Krishna says in Gita, seventh
chapter; seventh verse B.G. (7.7)

m:¶:H p:rt:rö n:any:etkeWc:dest: D:n:Wj:y: .

m:ey: s:v:üem:dö ):ðt:ö s:Ü*:ð m:eN:g:N:a Ev: ..
mattah, — beyond Me; para-taram — superior; na — not;
anyat kiñcit — anything else; asti — there is; dhanañjaya —
O conqueror of wealth; mayi — in Me; sarvam — all that be;
idam — which we see; protam — is strung; sūtre — on a
thread; man,i-gan,āh, — pearls; iva — like.

(O conqueror of wealth, there is no truth superior to Me.

Everything rests upon Me, as pearls are strung on a thread.)

That Arjuna, ‘O’ Dhananjya, there is no truth superior

to Me. That means I am the Supreme Absolute Truth and
everything is dependent upon Me as pearls are strung on a
thread. Just like, in a beautiful garland, you see beautiful
flowers, but none can see the thread, but it is understood
that if all the flowers are strung together, there must be an
underline thread that runs through it. Similarly, if everything
like electron is going around nucleus, the planets are going
around in perfect orbit, everything is moving perfectly in
order, what is the underline principle. Krishna says, just as
all the pearls are strung because of the underlying thread,
like that thread, I am underlying principle who withholds
everything. So according to Gita, Krishna is that personality
of Godhead.

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 For God to be God, He or that energy must be the
source of everything. Sri Krishna confirms that in tenth
Chapter; eighth verse B.G. (10.8)

Ahö s:v:üsy: )B:v::ð m:¶:H s:v:üö )v:t:üt:ð .

Eet: m:tv:a B:j:nt:ð m:aö b:ØD:a B:av:s:m:env:t:aH ..
aham — I; sarvasya — of all; prabhavah, — the source of
generation; mattah, — from Me; sarvam — everything;
pravartate — emanates; iti — thus; matvā — knowing;
bhajante — become devoted; mām — unto Me; budhāh, —
the learned; bhāva-samanvitāh, — with great attention.

(I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds.

Everything emanates from Me. The wise who perfectly know
this engage in My devotional service and worship Me with all
their hearts.)

I am the source of everything. Everything that you

see and that you cannot see both spiritual and material,
everything emanates from Me alone. One who worships Me
with this understanding, he is an intelligent person and he
knows things as it is. So it is not that we are worshiping
Krishna sentimentally. I like playing flute, therefore I
worship Krishna. I like bow and arrow, that’s why I worship
Lord Ram. It’s not like that; it is actually the complete
understanding as to who Krishna is.

Krishna is called Bhagwan, all opulent. Opulent means

Aishwarya, wealth, not just wealth but anything that
attracts. Just like, we have the word Vidyawan i.e. one who
possesses all knowledge. Gunwan -one who possess all good
qualities and Dhanwan- that is one who possesses all
wealth. Wan means one who possesses and Bhaga means all
opulences. Sri Bhagwan Uvacha. Why does Vyas Dev not
write, Sri Krishna Uvacha. If I say, Mr. so and so said, then
nobody will take that seriously but if one says Prime-

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minister made this statement, then people will say oh! Yes,
yes and will respect that statement. Similarly, when Vyas
Dev says, Sri Bhagwan Uvacha, he is saying who is this
Krishna speaking, don’t think Him to be an ordinary person,
He is Bhagwan. Why is He called Bhagwan? Because He
possesses all opulence’s therefore, Krishna is all attractive.
Generally people are attracted to people who have any of
these opulence’s. Basically it is described by Prashar Muni;
the father of Vyas Dev that there are six opulence’s and
anyone who possesses any one of these opulence’s becomes
very attractive to others and what are there six opulence’s?
That is described in Vishnu Puran (6.5.47)

,s”o;ZL; lekxzL; oh;ZL; ;”kl: fJ;:A

Kku oSjkX;ks”pSo ‘k..kka Hkkxferh=xukAA
He has all wealth, all power, all fame, all beauty, all
knowledge and all renunciation. We find in this material
world, anyone who has anyone of these opulence’s even to a
little degree, he becomes very attractive to people in
general.

Somebody is very rich, he becomes very attractive.

People are attracted to him saying what a rich man. But
what is this richness? How much does he own? He is not
even owner first of all. Even if he thinks he is owner, how
much land, how many printed papers of little value given by
people or some gold, that’s all. But can he say that I own
everything in this world, can he say I own the whole
Universe. No one can say that. That is one of the opulent.

Somebody is very powerful, he becomes very

attractive. But who can say, I have all the power. We find
there was a very powerful man, he called himself the
greatest. Later he changed his name as Mohammad Ali. He
was most powerful. Anyone comes, box him down. That’s
what he thought. But after sometime he got Parkinson’s

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disease. Parkinson disease means his hands will become
shaking. At that time he took to Islam and said I am not
great, Allah is great. So we find that even if you have little
power, how long will it last? In old age everything is
finished.

Somebody is very famous but next few years, he

becomes most infamous fellow and even if he is famous, he
is famous in a particular class of people, in a particular
country, probably for sometime, for a few years. Where are
all the famous people of the yester years? No one even
thinks of that? No one even cares for them.

Somebody is very beautiful, but where is the Miss-

Universe of 1920? No one would like to have even a look at
that person now. Where are the heroines of yesteryears?

Somebody is very knowledgeable. What kind of

knowledge? Every time, knowledge is changing. Some better
scientist comes and gives better theory.

Somebody may say that he is renounced but can

anyone say I am fully renounced.

So, we find that all the living entities in this universe

or material world, they may have one of these six opulence’s
to a very, very minute degree, to some extant, in a very
limited way and for some time. But Krishna is Bhagwan. He
has all wealth, everything belongs to Him. Sri Krishna says
in Gita, fifth Chapter; twenty-ninth Verse B.G. (5.29)

B::ðVt:arö y:wt:p:s:aö s:v:ül::ðkm:hðÃ:rm:Î .

s:ØÆdö s:v:üB:Üt:an:aö watv:a m:aö S:aent:m:àcCet: ..
bhoktāram — the beneficiary; yajña — of sacrifices;
tapasām — and penances and austerities; sarva-loka — of
all planets and the demigods thereof; mahā-īśvaram — the

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Supreme Lord; su-hr,dam — the benefactor; sarva — of all;
bhūtānām — the living entities; jñātvā — thus knowing;
mām — Me (Lord Kr,s,n,a); śāntim — relief from material
pangs; r,cchati — one achieves.

(A person in full consciousness of Me, knowing Me to be

the ultimate beneficiary of all sacrifices and austerities, the
Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods, and the
benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities, attains
peace from the pangs of material miseries.)

I am the enjoyer, I am the Maheswar. Ishwar

means controller but Maheshwar means the supreme
controller of all the planetary systems. I am the supreme
controller. So Krishna is all wealth, all power.

As long as Krishna descended on this planet, no one

could ever defeat Him. He was a Supreme Hero, real Hero.
Jarasandha would come with twenty-three aukshini sena
which was greater than Kaurva and Pandava sena put
together. Eleven and seven, eighteen that’s all. But
Jarasandha with twenty three aukshini sena came seventeen
times. And Krishna standing alone annihilated all of them
except Jarasandha so that he could collect again and come
back. Krishna did not have to go. Everybody Jarasandha
collect and bring and Krishna would finish alone with little
army. That is power.

Fame- somebody is famous in one country.

Somebody may be famous all over this land but the Lord,
the God is famous all over the world, all over the universe.
All are worshiping Him. That is Bhagwan.

Beauty - Krishna is the most beautiful, most Chaste

of all. Lakshmi Devi who is chaste to Narayana even when
she heard about Krishna’s beauty, She was attracted to go
and participate in the Raas-lila of Krishna. Anyone who sees
Krishna once looses taste in everything else of this material

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world. Such beauty is that of Krishna. Beauty of this
material world is very relative thing. Miss Africa

Miss Africa may be very beautiful for the Africans. We

may not be much attracted to Miss Africa. Or a she
cockroach may be very beautiful for he cockroach but you
see a cockroach, you get repulsion. Krishna is attractive not
only to all the living entities but even the trees are
attracted, the river is attracted to Krishna. In fact the word
Krishna means all attractive, Akashyati iti Krishna. He
attracts everyone, the heart of every living entity. That’s the
power of Krishna.

Gyana- He is all knowledge He spoke for just one and

half hour the B.G. and people spent the whole life time to
understand and still are not able to understand fully. Since
time immemorial, people are trying to jump into the depth
of ocean of this B.G. and according to their capacity, they
have gone inside and tried to find out depth but no-one has
yet found complete depth of expanse of the ocean of B.G.
and He spoke just for one and half hour, that’s all.

Vairagya- He is completely renounced; no one can be

so renounced as Krishna. He had the best of Gopis, millions
of them but when time came He just walked off to Mathura.
Sometimes a person creates a piece, I construct a building, I
construct an office, I start an organization, we are so much
attached, and we give birth to a child oh! I created this
child? This child is mine and we do not want to renounce, we
do not want to give up anything which we have created.
Krishna created this world, whole material world but He is
just not at all connected with it, Udaseen completely. He
creates the whole Universe, how much He must be
attached? But He is completely unattached. He walks off as
someone posses stool and walks off. Krishna is as much
attached to this creation as we are detached from stool,
even though it has come off from our own body. Similarly

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Krishna is completely detached. That is the detachment
expressed by the lord, therefore, He is Bhagwan. As per
Srimad Bhagavatam S.B. (1.3.28)

,rs pka”kdyk% iql

a % d`’.kLrq Hkxoku~ Lo;e~A
bUnzkfjO;kdqya yksda e`M;fUr ;qxs ;qxsAA
ete—all these; ca—and; amsa—plenary portions; kalah—
portions of the plenary portions; pumsah—of the Supreme;
krsnah—Lord Krsna; tu—but; bhagavan—the Personality of
Godhead; svayam—in person; indra-ari—the enemies of
Indra; vyakulam—disturbed; lokam—all the planets;
mrdayanti—gives protection; yuge yuge—in different ages.

(All of the above-mentioned incarnations are either plenary

portions or portions of the plenary portions of the Lord, but
Lord Sri Krsna is the original Personality of Godhead. All of
them appear on planets whenever there is a disturbance
created by the atheists. The Lord incarnates to protect the
theists.)

S.B. describes, after describing all the avtaras, Ved

Vyas says all these are expansions of Krishna, but d`’.kLrq
Hkxoku~ Lo;e~. He is the original source of al the attractive
personalities.

Then we discussed yesterday, for God to be God, He

must be supreme proprietor, controller and enjoyer. Sri
Krishna says in Gita, fifth chapter, twenty-ninth verse
B.G. (5.29), I am the supreme enjoyer B::ðVt:a-He is real
enjoyer. Why? because He is proprietor s:v:ül::ðkm:hðÃ:rm:. And
why He is proprietor, the Proof of proprietorship is through
control. Every law is under the Lord, under Krishna and no
law can bind Krishna, therefore He is independent of every
law.

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 When He descends into this material world, the laws
of nature don’t act on Him. He is aloof from the laws of
nature. The rule is everyone who takes birth, must grow old,
and must die. Krishna lived for hundred and twenty-five
years and performed beautiful past times, but have you ever
seen a picture of Krishna with moustache and beard? He
never grows old. Adiam Puran Purusham, Navyovanam Cha.
Brahmaji Prays Adiam- He is the oldest Puran purusham,
oldest of all but Navyovanam cha. He is ever youthful,
sixteen years old. Fresh ever, that is Krishna. The laws of
nature do not hold on Him.

There is a question which generally people ask. Is the

supreme personality God, a person or not a person? Is He
Sagun or Nirgun? This what people ask, but God is both
Sagun & Nirgun, because there is nothing that God cannot
be. If there is something that God cannot be then what kind
of a God is He? So God has to be Sagun & God has to be
Nirgun. But how is it possible? When it is said, the God is
Nirgun, this means that God does not have material Guna;
He does not have a material body like you and me which is
going to grow old and die. But his qualities or his gunas are
spiritual, they are eternal, they are transcendental. And the
whole creation is actually within Him and whole energy is
effulgence of the body of the Lord. Like in this room, there is
light, but this light is there because there is tube-light, the
source of light. Similarly, whole energy of the Lord which is
impersonally manifested everywhere; the source of it is
Supreme Personality. But yet everything is within Krishna.
When He opened His mouth and showed it to mother
Yashoda, the whole cosmic manifestation was within His
mouth. Thus Krishna showed that whole cosmic
manifestation is within Me, still I am outside it. That is the
inconceivable simultaneously one and different nature of the
Lord. Krishna is simultaneously one with and different from
His creation. Krishna is a person but not a person like you
and me. His personality is beyond the laws of nature. It is
transcendental, Sat-chit-ananda- Eternal, full of knowledge

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and bliss. And Braham-jyoti, the impersonal light is His
bodily effulgence. Just like the Sun. The Sun is there but by
the light he pervades all over the universe. Similarly Krishna
is situated beyond this material world, but by His energy, He
is all pervading.

Another question people ask why there are so many

gods in Hinduism. Why can’t you have just one person,
which solves all problems, otherwise there are so many
personalities and we find in typical Indian houses, the lot,
from one side, top to bottom and side to side, so many
pictures on the alter and you go somewhere, get some more
pictures and you stick them. And you do not know who is
greater and who is smaller and you want to satisfy
everyone. Then you are taking agaravatti and thinking my
God, this fellow may get angry, so let me satisfy, him, him
and him and also him. You start wondering, if I displease
him, it may not be good. Like children, ask mother, why you
worship so many Gods. Monday you go there, Tuesday you
go there and Thursday you go there. Why is it? She says
don’t ask these questions. This is by parampara. We have
been taught or it is our family tradition. No wonder, children
have no inclination, they think it is bogus ritual, we don’t
know why we are doing what we are doing but when they go
to school, they are taught to question. So it is very
important that we understand why are there so many gods?
Actually there are not many gods, there is only one God with
capital ‘G’ but there are many, many gods with small ‘g’.
That is what which must be properly understood.

So let us discuss, what is difference as per B.G. and

Vedic literature between God, supreme God and devatas-
demi-gods? First and foremost, the supreme God, the cause
of all causes, the source of everything, the supreme,
controller, proprietor and enjoyer is only one, they are not
two, Advaitam-there is only one but as far as devatas are
concerned, they are many, in fact they are thirty-three
Crore devatas to run the affairs, administrative affairs of this

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universe. Principally they are eight, Indra, Varuna, Agni,
Vayu, Surya, etc. Just like to run a country, we have one
Prime-Minister and then we have so many ministers and we
have their subordinates and they have their subordinates
and in Govt., there are so many, so many MLAs, so many
MPs and one PM. In this way there is only one God with
Capital ‘G’ but there are many, many devatas to run the
administrative affairs of the universe as subordinate
controllers, empowered representatives of the Lord in each
universe. So there is a difference devatas are many but
supreme Lord is only one. Another different thing is Krishna
or God is the complete whole where as all the other devatas
are His past and parcel. Just as finger is a part of the body.
Sri Krishna says in Gita, fifteenth chapter; seventh verse
B.G. (15.7)

m:m:òv:aöS::ð j:iv:l::ðkñ j:iv:B:Üt:H s:n:at:n:H .

m:n:H\:Åan:iendÓy:aeN: )káet:sT:aen: k\:üet: ..
mama — My; eva — certainly; am`śah, — fragmental particle;
jīva-loke — in the world of conditional life; jīva-bhūtah, —
the conditioned living entity; sanātanah, — eternal; manah,
— with the mind; s,as,t,hāni — the six; indriyān,i — senses;
prakr,ti — in material nature; sthāni — situated; kars,ati — is
struggling hard.

(The living entities in this conditioned world are My

eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are
struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the
mind.)

Mama eva am`śah, jīva loke –In this material world or

creation, there are so many devatas in higher planetary
systems to run the affairs of this universe, but Krishna says
mama -eva-am`śah,, they are all my parts and parcel. Just as
finger is the part of the body, empowered to do a particular
activity and as long as it is connected to the body, it can

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move and do its activities but if it is disconnected, it has no
existence. Similarly, as long as these devatas are
empowered by the Lord, till then they can perform the
affairs of the universe. If the power is taken-off, then
everything is finished. In Upanishad, there is a beautiful
story. Once, these devatas were little puffed-up. Krishna
wanted to show them example. So He happened to appear
before these devatas. There was Agni dev, there was Vayu
dev, and He wanted to put down their puffed-up situation.
So, it is described, Krishna came in front of, Agni dev. He
came in the form of ordinary person. He asked who you are.
You don’t know who I am, I am Agni dev. Oh! Really, what
can you do? I can burn everything to ashes, Oh! Really,
Then Krishna created a small piece of grass and He kept it
and asked to burn this. Agni dev started creating fire.
Everything around was burnt to ashes but at the end of it,
he saw, the grass remained as it is. Then he held his head in
shame and walked away. Then Vayu came. This personality
asked, oh! Who are you? You do not know, I am Vayu. Oh!
What can you do? I can blow everything away. Oh! Blow this
piece of grass. He just started blowing and he blew and blew
and blew, everything in front of him blew away, then he
stopped and looked and saw that grass has not even moved.
Not a blade of grass can move without the sanction of
supreme lord. This is a practical proof. Vayu dev submitted
and they understood that this personality who has come
before us is not an ordinary personality but supreme
personality of God head. Then they offered their obeisances.
So He is Supreme whole and all the devatas are part and
parcel.

Krishna or God is supremely worship able where as

all the devatas always worship the supreme as obedient
servants. It is described in the Rig Veda. “Tad Vishnoh
Parmam Padam, sada pashyanti Suraha”. The supreme lotus
feet of Lord Vishnu or Krishna, sada pashyanti surahs.
Surahs means devatas, always worshiping. As per twelfth
Canto, thirteenth Chapter, first verse of S.B. (12.13.1)

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 ;a Ckz(k o#.k-bUnz-#nz e#r:] LrqUofUr fnO;S: LroSj~
osnS: lk-vaxk–indzeks–mifu’knSj] xk;fUr pa lke-x:A
/;ku-vofLFkr-rn~xrsu eulk] i”;fUr ;a ;ksfxuks
;L;kUra u fonq: lqj-vlqj-x.k] nsok; rLeS ue:
sūtah, uvāca — Sūta Gosvāmī said; yam — whom; brahmā
— Lord Brahmā; varun,a-indra-rudra-marutah, — as well as
Varun,a, Indra, Rudra and the Maruts; stunvanti — praise;
divyaih, — with transcendental; stavaih, — prayers; vedaih, —
with the Vedas; sa — along with; ańga — the corollary
branches; pada-krama — the special sequential
arrangement of mantras; upanis,adaih, — and the Upanis,ads;
gāyanti — they sing about; yam — whom; sāma-gāh, — the
singers of the Sāma Veda; dhyāna — in meditative trance;
avasthita — situated; tat-gatena — which is fixed upon Him;
manasā — within the mind; paśyanti — they see; yam —
whom; yoginah, — the mystic yogīs; yasya — whose; antam
— end; na viduh, — they do not know; sura-asura-gan,āh, —
all the demigods and demons; devāya — to the Supreme
Personality of Godhead; tasmai — to Him; namah, —
obeisances.

(Sūta Gosvāmī said: Unto that personality whom

Brahmā, Varun,a, Indra, Rudra and the Maruts praise by
chanting transcendental hymns and reciting the Vedas with
all their corollaries, pada-kramas and Upanis,ads, to whom
the chanters of the Sāma Veda always sing, whom the
perfected yogīs see within their minds after fixing
themselves in trance and absorbing themselves within Him,
and whose limit can never be found by any demigod or
demon — unto that Supreme Personality of Godhead I offer
my humble obeisances.)

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 The Bhagavatam says, this personality, the Supreme
Lord, yam brahmā, varun,a-indra-rudra-marutah, stunvanti —
divyaih, stavaih,. This personality, the Supreme Lord is
worshiped by Brahma, Varuna, Indra, Rudra, Lord Shiva and
Marutah. They are always glorifying with what, divyaih,
stavaih,, that is transcendental glorification. All the Vedas,
they are simply glorifying, whose glories? Glories of the
Supreme worshipable Lord. The yogis meditate within the
heart of their hearts, that Supreme worshipable Lord, the
end of whose glories is not known even to the Surahs what
to speak of Asurahs. That is the glory of the Lord. So He is
always the supremely worshipable Lord and all others,
although in a very worshipable positions, are always
worshiping the Supreme as obedient servants.

“Ekle Ishwar Krishna, aar sabe Bhritya,

Yare yaiche nachai, taiche kare nritya.”
It is described, that the supreme controller is only
one and everyone is His part & parcel, dancing according to
His directions.

The Supreme Lord is the Supreme creator, the

original creator who has created everything and who is not
created by anyone whereas all the devatas, thirty-three
crores of them, including original secondary creator of this
universe Brahma. The first created being in this universe is
Brahmaji. Where did Brahma come from? The naval of Lord
Vishnu and Vishnu is expansion of Krishna. Brahmaji started
creating all these devatas, all these living entities and
different spices of life. But Krishna existed even before the
creation. In fact He was responsible for creating Brahma,
who acted on behalf of the Lord as secondary creator. He
was an engineer of the universe but he was not proprietor or
creator. Creator was supreme Lord. In Bhagvatam, Narada
asked Brahma, are you the supreme because I see non-one
else other than you in this creation. The Brahma says, no.

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no…. please do not misunderstand; I am simply an
instrument in the hands of Supreme Lord for the purpose of
creation, empowered by the Lord.

The supreme Lord is beyond material creation. He is

not a part of this material creation. He exists beyond while
all the devatas exist within material creation. They cannot
go out of it; they are all part of it. They may be in several
planetary systems. Fourteen planetary systems are there
and they may be in higher planetary systems but all of them
are within the creation of the Lord, within this universe.
Supreme Lord is beyond it, He is not a part of this creation.

The supreme Lord is a Supreme controller whereas all

the devatas are delegated with various grades of powers to
manage the affairs of the universe. They are the empowered
personalities to do the activities on behalf of the Lord. They
are like directors and officers in the Govt. of the Supreme
Lord. This is the understanding as per Vedic scriptures as
per Vedas as per Upanishads and as per B.G.

What is the difference between worship of the

Supreme Lord and worship of the Demi-gods? What is
wrong, you may worship everyone? Let us know what
Krishna says in B.G. about the worship of devatas and
worship of the Supreme Lord. Krishna says, the worship of
devatas are for less intelligent whereas those who worship
the Supreme Lord have broad intelligence. Sri Krishna says
in Gita, seventh chapter; twenty-third verse B.G. (7.23)

Ant:v:¶:Ø Pl:ö t:ð\:aö t:»v:ty:lp:m:ðD:s:am:Î .

dðv:andðv:y:j::ð y:aent: m:»Vt:a y:aent: m:am:ep: ..

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anta-vat — perishable; tu — but; phalam — fruit; tes,ām —
their; tat — that; bhavati — becomes; alpa-medhasām — of
those of small intelligence; devān — to the demigods; deva-
yajah, — the worshipers of the demigods; yānti — go; mat —
My; bhaktāh, — devotees; yānti — go; mām — to Me; api —
also.

(Men of small intelligence worship the demigods, and

their fruits are limited and temporary. Those who worship
the demigods go to the planets of the demigods, but My
devotees ultimately reach My supreme planet.)

Medha means brain. Alpa-medha means less brain,

less intelligence. So those who worship devatas, Krishna
says, they are less intelligent. Why does Krishna say, those
who worship devatas are less intelligent, because devatas
can give you something which is ultimately perishable. They
can only give you something material which is perishable.
They can give you strength but at the time of death, that
will go away. They can give you wealth, which will go away.
They can give you a good wife, will also go away. They can
give you something ultimately which will be finished.
Therefore, why worship for something which will ultimately
go away. It is like children playing and the man with
balloons comes and he knows how to attract. He goes and
starts shaking balloons right in front of their eyes. Children
go and ask Mummy; I want this & this etc. But mother says,
Beta, it is going to burst why pay so much money. No, no, I
want this and this. They think they are eternally going to be
with them and they are playing & playing & suddenly it
bursts. Again they start rolling, I want one more, and I want
one more. Similarly we are so foolish, we are claiming for
something and going to these devatas asking, give me this,
give me this. But we do not realize, everything will be
snatched away ultimately, if not before death, at the time of
death. Sometimes children build castles of sand. They don’t
see, waves are coming closer, closer…. and ultimately one
wave finishes up all their effort. Why ask for something

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which is perishable. Ask for something which is eternally to
be with you. That is the intelligence.

Therefore, Bhagavatam says, Akamah – if your have

no desire, Sarbha kamaha - if you have all the desires,
Moksh kamaha - if you want liberation, If you are intelligent
for any of your desire, you will approach Krishna. Why?
Because even though you may have material desire, if you
approach Krishna, He will satisfy your desire in such a way
that your material desire will be satisfied but you will have
no more material desire. That is like an expert. Material
desire is like an itch, if you develop it once you can not get
out of it and because of this itch, you scratch and scratch
and ….. so on, you are satisfied but after sometime, the itch
comes with double the force and you really have to scratch,
scratch and scratch…, The next time, it comes with such a
force, you really have to scratch with such a high force. In
this process, it reaches such a point that there become
wounds and you start bleeding and after sometimes it
itches, you cannot scratch any more, because if you scratch,
the wound starts opening up, it starts bleeding, its painful.
But if you do not scratch, you are miserable. Scratch, you
will be damn, don’t scratch, you will be damn. Damn if you
do, damn if you do not. That is the situation in this material
world. My lord, give me this & give me this & then you say
my Lord give me that also. Because to maintain this I need
that, it’s like a string of things. The story of man climbing on
a mountain, asks my God, I wish, I had a horse. He
suddenly gets She-horse. She was pregnant and she gave
birth to a small horse. Earlier he was alone in climbing the
hill, now he has a horse to take care and a little horse. He
carried little horse on his back and he started walking along
with She horse thinking, he was better before. Material
desires are like itch, the more you want, you have more and
you have more anxiety. If you don’t have, you lament, if you
have, you are always in anxiety. Suppose this goes away
and so on. In this way people are miserable.

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 Demi-gods are subordinate to the will of Supreme,
while the Supreme-Lord is supremely independent. The
demi-gods cannot act independently. Whatever they have
been empowered, they can give. Just like, the irrigation
minister cannot interfere with the affairs of industry and
Railway Minister cannot do something about irrigation or
water. Whereas, the Prime Minister can come and interface
and take away any post. It is surprise to know that even the
devatas have bodies like you and me but more subtle. They
live for long, long time but they have to get old, they may
have to get disease, ultimately all have to die including Lord
Brahma. Lord Brahma is now fifty-seven years old. His age
is very long of course. Sri Krishna says in Gita, eighth
chapter; seventeenth verse B.G. (8.17)

s:h+y:Øg:p:y:ünt:m:hy:üdÏ b:ÒÉN::ð ev:dÙH .

rae*:ö y:Øg:s:h+ant:aö t:ð|h:ðra*:ev:d:ð j:n:aH ..
sahasra — one thousand; yuga — millenniums; paryantam
— including; ahah, — day; yat — that which; brahman,ah, —
of Brahmā; viduh, — they know; rātrim — night; yuga —
millenniums; sahasra-antām — similarly, ending after one
thousand; te — they; ahah,-rātra — day and night; vidah, —
who understand; janāh, — people.

(By human calculation, a thousand ages taken together

form the duration of Brahmā's one day. And such also is the
duration of his night.)

He lives for billions and billions of years. But

ultimately he has also to die. His one moment is like years
as per our calculations. He lives for his hundred years as we
live for our hundred years.

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 Even they get disease sometimes. In Mahabharata
there is an incidence. Yudhishthir Maharaj was performing so
many Yagyas, pouring so much Ghee in Agni and Agnidev
had to drink so much ghee that he developed mandagini. His
digestion power became so less that Agnidev said, I have to
devolve some forest. So he wanted to devolve Khandwa
forest and every time to devolve Agni goes, Indra will start
showering because it is his land, then Agni requested Arjuna
to help him. Then next time when Agni wanted to devolve
the forest of Khandwa, Arjuna shot so many arrows that he
created an umbrella, not a drop would fall inside and at that
time Khandwa forest was devolved. Agni was so happy that
he presented so many gifts. He gave him the chariot on
which Arjuna sat to fight the battle of Kurukshetra. He gave
him Gandhiva and other paraphernalia to fight. In this way
we find that even Agnidev develops mandagini. He develops
some problems, of course their diseases do not grow as ours
that we have run to the doctors. Sri Krishna says in Gita,
eighth chapter; sixteenth verse B.G. (8.16)

A:b:ÒÉB:Øv:n:all::ðkaH p:Øn:rav:et:ün::ð|j:Øün: .
m:am:Øp:ðty: t:Ø k:ònt:ðy: p:Øn:j:ünm: n: ev:½t:ð ..
ā-brahma-bhuvanāt — up to the Brahmaloka planet; lokāh,
— the planetary systems; punah, — again; āvartinah, —
returning; arjuna — O Arjuna; mām — unto Me; upetya —
arriving; tu — but; kaunteya — O son of Kuntī; punah, janma
— rebirth; na — never; vidyate — takes place.

(From the highest planet in the material world down to

the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth
and death take place. But one who attains to My abode, O
son of Kuntī, never takes birth again.)

From Brahma-loka down to the lowest living entity,

everyone has to pass through the cycle of birth, old age,

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disease and death but Krishna has a completely spiritual
body. No birth, no old age, no disease and no death. You
may say, Krishna was born on Janamashtmi. Krishna was
born but his birth was transcendental. Sri Krishna says in
Gita, fourth chapter; ninth verse B.G. (4.9)

j:nm: km:ü c: m:ð edvy:m:ðv:ö y::ð v:ðe¶: t:¶v:t:H .

ty:Vtv:a dðhö p:Øn:j:ünm: n:òet: m:am:ðet: s::ð|j:Øün: ..
janma — birth; karma — work; ca — also; me — of Mine;
divyam — transcendental; evam — like this; yah, — anyone
who; vetti — knows; tattvatah, — in reality; tyaktvā —
leaving aside; deham — this body; punah, — again; janma —
birth; na — never; eti — does attain; mām — unto Me; eti —
does attain; sah, — he; arjuna — O Arjuna.

(One who knows the transcendental nature of My

appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body,
take his birth again in this material world, but attains My
eternal abode, O Arjuna.)

Just like the sum appears in the east and seen to

disappear in the west. A foolish child says, oh! New Sun has
come and Sun has gone and dead. But no, Sun is always
there. Sometimes it is seen and sometimes it disappears
from our eyes. Similarly Sri Krishna says in Gita, fourth
chapter; eighth verse B.G. (4.8)

p:er*:aN:ay: s:aD:Ün:aö ev:n:aS:ay: c: dÙ\kát:am:Î .

D:m:üs:ösT:ap:n:aT:aüy: s:mB:v:aem: y:Øg:ð y:Øg:ð ..
paritrān,āya — for the deliverance; sādhūnām — of the
devotees; vināśāya — for the annihilation; ca — and;
dus,kr,tām — of the miscreants; dharma — principles of
religion; sam`sthāpana-arthāya — to reestablish;

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sambhavāmi — I do appear; yuge — millennium; yuge —
after millennium.

(To deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as

well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I Myself
appear, millennium after millennium.)

He does not born, He appears and disappears. He

does not born and He does not die. The devatas come under
the influence of three material modes to different extents.
They are affected by these gunas but Krishna is beyond the
influence of three material modes. Sri Krishna says in Gita,
fourth chapter; fourteenth verse B.G. (4.14)

n: m:aö km:aüeN: el:mp:ent: n: m:ð km:üPl:ð sp:àha .

Eet: m:aö y::ð|eB:j:an:aet: km:üeB:n:ü s: b:Dy:t:ð ..
na — never; mām — Me; karmān,i — all kinds of work;
limpanti — do affect; na — nor; me — My; karma-phale — in
fruitive action; spr,hā — aspiration; iti — thus; mām — Me;
yah, — one who; abhijānāti — does know; karmabhih, — by
the reaction of such work; na — never; sah, — he; badhyate
— becomes entangled.

(There is no work that affects Me; nor do I aspire for the

fruits of action. One who understands this truth about Me
also does not become entangled in the fruitive reactions of
work.)

No activity can bind Krishna in the cycle of Karma.

We have to suffer because past Karmas. Krishna does not
have to suffer because of no karma.

Most important, the devatas are temporary posts

whereas Krishna is eternally the same supreme Lord. You
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Govt. changes once in five years, if they are fortunate, all
the devatas change once in seventy-one divya-yugas. Our
Kali-Yuga is four lac thirty-two years, out of which only five
thousand years have passed. Double of that is Dawapar
-Yuga, eight lac sixty-four thousand. Triple of that is Treta-
Yuga, twelve lac ninety-six thousand and four times, Sat
-Yuga i.e. seventeen lac twenty-eight thousand. All put
together, forty-three lac of years. This is one yuga-cycle.
When seventy-one times, this yuga-cycle revolves, then all
the devatas change. Surya, Chandra Indra, Varuna, Vayu
everyone changes.

Indra is not a person, Indra is a post. Presently it is

occupied by a person whose name is Purandara. The next
Indra is going to be Bali Maharaj who was sent to Sutala
loka by Vamandev. Presently the Suryadev post is occupied
by a person whose name is Vibhasvan. Presently the post of
Chandra in Chandraloka is occupied by a person whose
name is Soma. This is all universal politics. There are no
elections to these posts. They are all fixed. Next Indra is
fixed. If we have a particular kind of qualification, we can
become Indra. We can also occupy the post of devatas.
Anyone who performs hundred Ashvamegha Yagya can
become Indra. Therefore whenever a person performs
ninety-nine Yagyas, Indra becomes anxiety ridden. He steals
away that horse of Yagya. We find in Puranas so many
stories. Anyone who performs too much austerities, he
sends Menaka and Urvashi to stop his austerity otherwise he
will take my post. There also they have their own anxieties,
like we have ours. So we find that all these devatas are
temporary posts, but Krishna is not a post, Krishna is
eternally going to be the same. He is always the Lord,
otherwise all these devatas, once in a day of Brahma,
fourteen times, all these devatas change, that is after one
thousand cycles.

Coming back to the worship, we were discussing how

worship of devatas is considered less intelligent because

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generally we go to these devatas for asking some material
benefit. But if we go even for some material benefits to
Krishna, as we were discussing about the itch, if you have
an itch and if you go to your friend, only thing he can do is
scratch, but if you go to a doctor, he is not going to scratch,
he applies medicine. Your itch is removed and there is no
more itch. Similarly when you go to Krishna, Krishna is not
only going to fulfill your material desire, he will fulfill your
desire in such a way that you will have no more desire.
Example we have of Dhruv Maharaj. Dhruv Maharaj wanted
a Kingdom better than that of his grand father Brahma. He
approached his mother, mother said, ‘My dear son if you
want anything, approach Krishna, or Supreme Lord’. Where
is He available, He is available in the forest. So he went to
forest and started worshiping, tremendous austerity, the
Lord appeared in front of him and what does Dhruv Maharaj
says in S.B. (4.9.31)

vgks cr eke&vukRE;a eUnHkkXL; Ik”;rA

HkofPNn: iknewya xRok&;kps ;nUror~A
aho — oh; bata — alas; mama — my; anātmyam — bodily
consciousness; manda-bhāgyasya — of the unfortunate;
paśyata — just see; bhava — material existence; chidah, —
of the Lord, who can cut off; pāda-mūlam — the lotus feet;
gatvā — having approached; yāce — I prayed for; yat —
that which; anta-vat — perishable.

(Alas, just look at me! I am so unfortunate. I approached

the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who
can immediately cut the chain of the repetition of birth and
death, but still, out of my foolishness, I prayed for things
which are perishable.)

My Lord, I was looking for piece of glass but now I

have found you, I have found diamond. Now I do not want

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piece of glass. I was asking for something material, but now
I have found you, I do not want anything material. But the
Lord said, no you initially came with a desire, therefore, I
award you Dhruva Loka for 36000 celestial years you will
rule over the planet and Dhruva Loka is even better than
Brahma Loka because, at the time of universal annihilation,
Brahma Loka will finish but Dhruva Loka will not. Therefore,
your desire is fulfilled and no more material desire. This is
the difference between approaching the Lord and
approaching the devatas.

The difference between approaching the God and

devatas is like approaching to your father and approaching a
shopkeeper. Suppose a child wants to smoke cigarette. He
takes ten Rupees & goes to the shop. Shopkeeper knows
that it is not good for the child but he has to give as he has
opened a shop for this. The same child when goes with ten
rupees note and tells his father, dear father, here is ten
Rupees note, I want triple five. Father will keep ten Rupees
note and will slap him triple five times. He says, you fool it is
not good for you. You may be fool but I am not a fool. You
may desire the wrong thing but I am going to give you what
exactly you need. This is the difference between
approaching a devata and approaching Krishna. The devatas
have to give you what you want, but Krishna gives you what
you need. And most of the time what we want is not what
we need.

The benefits given by demi-gods are material and

temporary. You ask for something again you have to
come…… and ask, why that, ask for something permanent
and your problem is solved. That is intelligent. Why go again
and again to someone. But to ask something once for all,
you have to have intelligence. Just like every year Feb &
March, suddenly people start going to devatas. Why because
exams are coming and during June, July vacation, you stop
going to temple. Let results come afterwards we will come.
Again next year they go, O.K. now I have passed, give me a

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good job. Now job is there, give me a good boss, this fellow
is too much eating my head, Lord let him die so that,
someone else may came. Give me good wife, give me a
child, and admit him to a good school. Go on asking, there is
no end to it. But these benefits which are given by Lord are
eternally to your credit, never to be taken away even at the
time of death. Sri Krishna says in Gita, second chapter;
fortieth verse B.G. (2.40)

n:ðhaeB:#m:n:aS::ð|est: )ty:v:ay::ð n: ev:½t:ð .

sv:lp:m:py:sy: D:m:üsy: *:ay:t:ð m:ht::ð B:y:at:Î ..
na — there is not; iha — in this yoga; abhikrama — in
endeavoring; nāśah, — loss; asti — there is; pratyavāyah, —
diminution; na — never; vidyate — there is; su-alpam — a
little; api — although; asya — of this; dharmasya —
occupation; trāyate — releases; mahatah, — from very
great; bhayāt — danger.

(In this endeavor there is no loss or diminution, and a

little advancement on this path can protect one from the
most dangerous type of fear.)

Anything you are given by Lord is eternally to your

credit. In your next life, you will continue from where you
have left off. Suppose you have bank account, you have put
one Crore and there and you die. In the next life, suppose
you become a dog and in front of the bank if you bark, this
is my account number, this is my credit number, no body is
going to give you, even if you remember the pass-book
number but because the benefits given by the Supreme Lord
are on the platform of spirit, it is spiritual, it is eternally to
your credit.

They cannot award benedictions without the sanction

of the Lord. Krishna says, but all benedictions are bestowed
by Him. Even all the devatas who actually give all these

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benefits, without the sanction of the Lord they cannot give
these benefits. Sri Krishna says in Gita, seventh chapter;
twenty-second verse B.G. (7.22)

s: t:y:a Â:¹y:a y:ØVt:st:sy:araD:n:m:iht:ð .

l:B:t:ð c: t:t:H kam:anm:y:òv: ev:eht:aenh t:an:Î ..
sah, — he; tayā — with that; śraddhayā — inspiration;
yuktah, — endowed; tasya — of that demigod; ārādhanam —
for the worship; īhate — he aspires; labhate — obtains; ca
— and; tatah, — from that; kāmān — his desires; mayā — by
Me; eva — alone; vihitān — arranged; hi — certainly; tān —
those.

(Endowed with such a faith, he endeavors to worship a

particular demigod and obtains his desires. But in actuality
these benefits are bestowed by Me alone.)

Krishna says when I sanction then only they can give

what you are asking for. They are the agents, Krishna is the
original supplier. If He does not supply, what will the agents
do? All of them have different agencies like Air deptt.-Vayu,
water deptt.-Varuna, Rain deptt.-Indra, Light & heating
deptt.-Surya. But originally supply is coming from Supreme
Lord. If He stops supplying, agents cannot give anything.

Another benefit of worship of Supreme Lord versus

worship of devatas is, if you worship devatas, you go to the
abode of demigods but if you worship the Supreme Lord
Krishna, you go to the abode of Supreme Lord which is
infallible. Now what does that mean? Destinations of devatas
are fallible. Sri Krishna says in Gita, ninth chapter; twenty-
fifth verse B.G. (9.25)

y:aent: dðv:v:Òt:a dðv:aenp:t:äny:aent: ep:t:àv:Òt:aH .

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 B:Üt:aen: y:aent: B:Üt:ðjy:a y:aent: m:½aej:n::ð|ep: m:am:Î ..
yānti — go; deva-vratāh, — worshipers of demigods; devān
— to the demigods; pitrrr, n — to the ancestors; yānti — go;
pitr,-vratāh, — worshipers of ancestors; bhūtāni — to the
ghosts and spirits; yānti — go; bhūta-ijyāh, — worshipers of
ghosts and spirits; yānti — go; mat — My; yājinah, —
devotees; api — but; mām — unto Me.

(Those who worship the demigods will take birth among

the demigods; those who worship the ancestors go to the
ancestors; those who worship ghosts and spirits will take
birth among such beings; and those who worship Me will live
with Me.)

One who worships devatas, goes to the abode of

devatas, if you worship your ancestors, you go to the planet
of your ancestors, where the ancestors reside, if you worship
ghosts you will go to their planets. Those who worship Me,
come to my abode. So what is the difference if we go to the
abode of Lord or any other abode? The difference is this,
because all the living entities including the devatas are
within this material world. Even if you go to higher planets,
where the devatas live, that is if you do pun,ye, you go up,
but when your pun,ye is exhausted or when your pious
credits are exhausted, you fall back. Just like having credit
card, you go on spending, one day it bounces, you are back
to square one. Sri Krishna says in Gita, ninth chapter;
twenty-first verse B.G. (9.21)

t:ð t:ö B:ØVtv:a sv:g:ül::ðkö ev:S:al:ö

x:iN:ð p:ØNy:ð m:ty:ül::ðkö ev:S:ent: .
te — they; tam — that; bhuktvā — enjoying; svarga-lokam
— heaven; viśālam — vast; ks,īn,e — being exhausted; pun,ye
— the results of their pious activities; martya-lokam — to
the mortal earth; viśanti — fall down;

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 (When they have thus enjoyed vast heavenly sense
pleasure and the results of their pious activities are
exhausted, they return to this mortal planet again.)

Whereas if you go to the destination of the Supreme

Lord, Sri Krishna says in Gita, eighth chapter; twenty-first
verse B.G. (8.21)

Avy:Vt::ð|x:r Ety:ØVt:st:m:ahÚH p:rm:aö g:et:m:Î .

y:ö )apy: n: en:v:t:ünt:ð t:¹am: p:rm:ö m:m: ..
avyaktah, — unmanifested; aks,arah, — infallible; iti — thus;
uktah, — is said; tam — that; āhuh, — is known; paramām —
the ultimate; gatim — destination; yam — which; prāpya —
gaining; na — never; nivartante — come back; tat — that;
dhāma — abode; paramam — supreme; mama — My.

(That which the Vedāntists describe as unmanifest and

infallible, that which is known as the supreme destination,
that place from which, having attained it, one never returns
— that is My supreme abode.)

Krishna says that my abode is beyond this material

world, having gone there, no need to come into this material
world of birth, old-age disease and death. That is called
Vaikuntha. Sawarga loka means like better facility of
material world. Just like in Bombay, there are some better
areas, like that. But going to the abode of Supreme Lord
means, there is no birth, no old-age, no disease and no
death. Kuntha means anxiety; Vaikuntha means where there
is no anxiety.

Krishna says in Gita that worship of devatas is

improper way of worship while worshiping Him is real proper
way. Why? Sri Krishna says in Gita, ninth chapter; twenty-
third verse B.G. (9.23)

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 y:ð|py:ny:dðv:t:a B:Vt:a y:j:nt:ð Â:¹y:aenv:t:aH .
t:ð|ep: m:am:ðv: k:ònt:ðy: y:j:nty:ev:eD:p:Üv:ükm:Î ..
ye — those who; api — also; anya — of other; devatā —
gods; bhaktāh, — devotees; yajante — worship; śraddhayā
anvitāh, — with faith; te — they; api — also; mām — Me;
eva — only; kaunteya — O son of Kuntī; yajanti — they
worship; avidhi-pūrvakam — in a wrong way.

(Those who are devotees of other gods and who worship

them with faith actually worship only Me, O son of Kuntī, but
they do so in a wrong way.)

He is telling worship of devatas is avidhi-pūrvakam.

Means improper worship, why does Krishna say that it is
improper. Few examples will make it clear. In Bhagavatam
Narad Muni says: S.B. (4.31.14)

;Fkk rjksj&ewy&fu’kspusu]
r`I;fUr rR-LdU/k & Hkqtk & mi”kkjok:A
izk.k & migkjkHk&p ;Fk & bfUnz;k.kka]
rFkSo loZ & vjg.ke & vP;qr & bT;kA
yathā — as; taroh, — of a tree; mūla — the root; nis,ecanena
— by watering; tr,pyanti — are satisfied; tat — its; skandha
— trunk; bhuja — branches; upaśākhāh, — and twigs; prān,a
— the life air; upahārāt — by feeding; ca — and; yathā —
as; indriyān,ām — of the senses; tathā eva — similarly;
sarva — of all demigods; arhan,am — worship; acyuta — of
the Supreme Personality of Godhead; ijyā — worship.

(As pouring water on the root of a tree energizes the

trunk, branches, twigs and everything else, and as supplying
food to the stomach enlivens the senses and limbs of the

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body, simply worshiping the Supreme Personality of
Godhead through devotional service automatically satisfies
the demigods, who are parts of that Supreme Personality.)

Narad Muni gives two beautiful examples. That if you

want to worship, worship the Supreme Lord. Worship of
devatas is improper. Example is given of a tree. If there is a
huge tree and if you want to water the tree, you may water
every branch, every sub-branch every leaf, every flower and
every fruit but everything will dry-up. But intelligent man is
not going to water like this; he simply takes a bucket of
water and pours it at the root. If the root is nourished, every
part of the tree will be nourished. The other example he
gives is of, if you want to food the body, feed the stomach.
But if you food all the nine holes of the body, except the
mouth, like you put in the ears, you put in the eyes, you put
in nose, this is improper way of feeding. Best way is put it in
the stomach, and automatically, every part of the body will
be nourished. Why does he say this, because all the devatas
are directors and officers in the Govt. of the Supreme Lord
and the laws are made by the God. If you do not follow the
laws but bribe the officials and satisfy them, that is
improper, it is illegal. So you may ask why did Krishna put
all these devatas? And why does in Vedic scriptures, He
gives recommendation that you worship this. You worship
this and this and so on. If you want good health, worship
Surya-dev, if you want money, you worship Lakshmidevi, if
you want good wife worship Uma that is Parvati. If you want
bodily beauty, you worship Ashwini-Kumaras. If you want
fame, worship this or that devata. It is like menu-card. Then
why does Krishna recommend this? This is very important to
understand. Sometimes people say, why only Krishna, what
about others. Do all the devatas not existing, they are such
great souls. As if your neighbors, you do not care for them.
No, that is not true. We do respect the devatas, but how and
why that must be understood. Why Krishna is saying, it is
improper. Try to understand, it is not that worship of
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approach the devatas is what is considered less intelligent.
The devatas are the representatives of the Lord, if you want
to satisfy them, best is to satisfy the Lord. If you satisfy the
Lord, automatically, everyone is satisfied.

Generally, those who worship the devatas, they go

with a business mentality. There is no love in business
mentality. Otherwise, why do you go only on Tuesdays, why
only on Saturdays? If a husband goes to his wife and tells
oh! I really love you but I only love you on Tuesday between
7 and 8 P.M. that’s all. Is that love? Love means sacrifice,
love means surrender, completely, twenty-four hours a day,
three sixty five days an year. And love does not mean, what
I can get from that person but what can I give to that
person without expecting any results. This is true love. Sign
of true love means two things. There is no expectation of
return, and number two there is no Sundays. For lovers they
wish week has eight days so that I could love you more, I
could serve you more. Otherwise you are not loving, for
what he is but for what he can give you. The moment you
stop supplying, he goes to other lover. Oh! My Lord, since
forty weeks I am coming but still you have not supplied but
some one is telling me, if you do for eight weeks, you will
get that. So thank you, you keep yours, I am going to that
person. This is business mentality. of course a pious
business mentality. My Lord I will offer you one coconut
which is of two rupees, you give me two thousands. This is
business, pious business. So this mentality is less intelligent.
Number two, we should know what kind of prayers to make.
It is no problem to go to temple of Devatas, but if you go to
them, tell them, oh! My Lord, I am a fool number one. I do
not know what to ask for. You give me what you think is
right and believe me, if this is your prayer, all these devatas
will ultimately direct you to their most worship able Supreme
Lord, Krishna. This is a fact, because all the devatas are
always worshiping the Supreme Lord Krishna. In Vedic
scriptures, even the worship of devatas, has been designed
in such a way that ultimately, you have to worship Krishna.

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In Maharashtra, worship of Ganesha is very prominent.
There is Dwadsh Ganpati Satotara. Ayur- you want to
increase your life span, Kamah, you want to increase your
sense gratification and you want money Artha any obstacle,
he will remove. Then whatever you want he will fulfill your
desire. He has opened a shop, come here. This is the
mentality. Do these for six months, you will get the benefit.
But if you go to Krishna whole life, still you may not get
anything; you may not realize of course what you have got.
So, people want quick benefit. All the worship of these
devatas has been designed in such a way that before
worship of any devata, you have to begin with Krishna. If
you listen carefully to any worship, it starts with Om
Keshvay namha! Narayanay namha! In the end Govinday
namha! So, all this worship is sandwiched in between
Krishna’s names. Starting with Krishna’s name and ending
with Krishna’s name. They establish a Kalash first before
worship of Ganesha. What is this Kalash? Yagyapati-Vishnu.
Without establishing Vishnu they cannot begin worship of
Lord Ganesha. And at the end, aarti ends with Narayana iti
samarpyani. This is like taking a quinine pill, bitter inside but
coated very sweet from outside. They don’t know what they
are taking, but the process of chanting starts and because
they are doing in a very proper way, Vedic way, slowly they
are taking the medicine of chanting the holy name of the
Lord and in due course of the time the cleansing of the heart
will take place. So we are not against worship of devatas,
but what we are against is approaching them with business
mentality. Don’t think that going in front of Lord Ganesha
and chanting the Mahamantra will displease Ganesha. He
will also start dancing. If you want to please someone,
suppose I want to please you, I want to invite you to my
house and I give you what you want. So people sometimes
go to these devatas and say My Lord, take this. It is like
bribe. If you want to please Hanuman, simply stand in front
of Lord Hanuman, chant the name of Lord Ram and you will
be surprised, Hanuman may jump outside the altar and
dance with you. His eyes will glow with love of Ram. If you

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want to please Hanuman, you chant the name of Ram in
front of him and see how happy he is. He will give you
whatever you want even without asking. Hanuman Chalisa
we see. Hanuman can give you ashat-sidhi, nav-nidhi. All
the nine riches and ashat-sidhi, he can give you but what
does he do? Does he exploit any of these? Simply he is
chanting the name of Lord Ram, because he has developed
a higher taste. We are so fools, we are asking, give this,..,
the things which he has already rejected. What he rejects
we are asking. This is our foolishness.

We are not against devatas, in fact we should

respect every living entity, even an ant what to speak of
devatas who are representatives of the Lord, who are
empowered devotees of the Lord. If you want to please the
devatas, supply please Krishna. By pleasing Krishna,
everyone will be pleased and this is not what I am saying,
this what devatas are saying. This is what Lord Ganesha is
saying. Bhagavad-Gita is written by Lord Ganesh. This is a
part of Mahabharat. Vyas Dev wanted to write Mahabharat,
but one lac verses. So he needed an efficient stenographer.
He was thinking whom to take and Ganeshji said O.K. I take
the job. But Ganeshji laid the condition, Ganeshji, told Vyas
dev, the moment you stop dictating, I will put my down. You
should go on speaking, that is my condition. So Vyasdev
said. O.K. I also have my one condition, whatever I say; you
must first understand and then write. So whenever Vyasdev
wanted some time, he gave a tough one and Ganeshji had
to think what the meaning of this verse is. By that time
Vyasdev had the time to think. That means none of these
verses what Ganeshji wrote, did not know what these were,
he understood everything of what he was writing, not that
he was simply typing down. And within the Bhisham-parva
of Mahabharat, there are eighteen chapters of Bhagavad-
Gita. That means that this particular verse is personally
written by Ganapati. At Bhadrika ashram, Ganesh gufa and
Vyas gufa are very close by where Vyasji was dictating and
Ganeshji was writing.

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 So we are not against worship of devatas. One must
respect everyone but how to respect the devatas? Suppose
an Inspector General of Police comes and along with him a
constable is comes. Both of them are standing together and
you want to garland them. You take a garland and first
garland the constable. This fellow will feel miserable. He will
feel his boss is here and he is being honored. And if you say
you are IG. Not only I.G. but even higher. What he will say,
he will say get out what you want, my boss is standing in
front of me. Similarly if you go in front of devatas and you
say, My Lord you are the creator of the universe, you are
the supreme controller and proprietor. Devata will say, what
you want dear, please tell me, don’t flatter me like this. I am
not what you are saying. This is what we are doing. So it is
not that you disrespect constable. If you slap the constable,
you have slapped the Govt. because Govt. has appointed
him as constable. So, one cannot disrespect. If you have
slapped the constable, indirectly you have slapped the Govt.
on the face. So by disrespecting devatas, you are
disrespecting Krishna. Simply worship by saying that you are
such a great devotee of the Lord, I am a fool number one;
please give me wonderful devotion at the lotus feet of the
Supreme Lord. He removes all obstacles. Why not ask him
to remove all obstacles in establishing our eternal
relationship with the Supreme Lord Krishna. This is the
proposal of Bhagavad-Gita. We are not against worshiping
the devatas, we area against worshipping the devatas as
independent controllers, with the thinking that devatas can
give me what Krishna cannot give. No, whatever we worship
devatas, it goes to Krishna, then why not worship Krishna
directly? By satisfying Krishna, every one of the devatas is
satisfied otherwise how to satisfy thirty-three crores of
devatas. Sri Krishna says in Gita, eighteenth chapter; sixty-
sixth verse B.G. (18.66)

s:v:üD:m:aünp:erty:jy: m:am:ðkö S:rN:ö v:Òj: .

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 Ahö tv:am: s:v:üp:ap:ðBy::ð m::ðx:ey:\y:aem: m:a S:Øc:H ..
Generally we find all these demoniac kinds of people
approach devatas. Hariniya Kashypu approached Brahma
and what did he ask for? My lord, give me protection against
death, outside the house inside the house, here and there so
that one day I can push you aside and take your place. It is
exactly what he was saying. Similarly, Ravana a great
devotee of Lord Shiva. Why was he worshiping Lord Shiva?
So that he can enjoy Sita. There is story in Ramayana, when
everyone of Ravana’s family had died, Ravana decided to go
in the battle field to fight against Ram and started
meditating in the early morning and he started Om namho
Shivay, ……. with such intensity and with such a great
concentration was he praying that vibrations from cyclone
were reaching Kailash Parvat. Shiva could hear his voice.
Parvati could also hear. Parvati said, my Lord, someone
seems to be calling you, why do not you do something about
it. Lord Shiva turned to Parvati. He said “I can’t do anything”
because today this Ravana is praying to me to give him
protection against a personality from whom I am getting all
protection. He is going against my master Ram, what I can
do, therefore, I am simply helpless.

In Padma Puran, Parvati asked Lord Shiva, My Lord, I

always find you meditating and can you tell me on whom
you are meditating upon. Lord Shiva tells Parvati, Oh
beautiful faced one; in the name of Ram, I derive
tremendous bliss. He tells Parvati, if you want liberation
from the cycle of birth & death, worship Vishnu or Krishna.
In fact, in his own abode Kashi, anyone who is a devotee of
Lord Shiva when dies in Kashi, personally Lord Shiva comes
and chants in his ear, the name of Lord Ram which can give
liberation. This is the glory of Lord Shiva. Not understanding
him, we do not know how to please him.

Once, a demon named Varkasura approached Lord

Shiva, cutting his hands cutting his legs, everything cutting

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just like a child. Simply this demon was forcing Lord Shiva to
come by chopping off his body limbs. Lord Shiva appeared,
asked him what do you want? He said, whoever I lay my
hand upon, let that person burnt to ashes, i.e. he becomes
Bhasmasur. Lord Shiva said Tatha-astu. Varkasura looked at
Parvati, such a beautiful lady. The only thing between me
and her is this man who gave me benediction, so now I want
to destroy him. He started proceeding towards Lord Shiva.
He started running & running and approached Lord Vishnu.
Vishnu in the form of a small boy started laughing at
Varkasura. Oh! Why are you running? Vishnu said. This
person gives benediction to everyone but nothing happens,
you will keep your hand on head, nothing will happen and
you will become laughing stock. Did it? Yes! You try and test
it. Oh, he tried on himself and finished. So in this way we
find, most of the people approach devatas, they approach
with demoniac mentality. They want to enjoy rather than
serve and love.

Another misconception that people have is, they think

that Krishna is the eighth avatar of Vishnu. But actually it is
the other way around. Vishnu is an avatar of Krishna. Vishnu
is an expansion of Krishna. In once sense there is no
difference between Krishna or Vishnu or Ram, they are all
one. But still Krishna expands Himself to millions & trillions
of expansions and Vishnu forms and in one sense there is no
difference. Vishnu is an avatar of Krishna. Krishna has so
many avatars. For the creation of this universe, He expands
into Vishnu form and in other words we can say Vishnu is
Krishna in His office. Just like when a high court judge is in
his office, everyone is addressing like, “your honor, my lord”
etc. but the same man when comes home, his son may get
down to this shoulder and may say just go around, you are a
horse and I am riding on you, just go around and father
does that even through he may be high count judge but
right now he is at home. So Vishnu for the creation of
universe when He comes, He is Supreme worship able Lord.
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but the same Vishnu when goes home, He takes-off His
dress, He is Krishna in His original form and at that time
sometimes He has to massage the lotus feet of RadhaRani to
satisfy Her. When He is at home, He is playing with cowherd
boys. You never see Vishnu surrounded with cowherd boys,
playing all kind of games. There is Aishwarya Bhava in
Vishnu that is always on reverence but there is Madhuriya
Bhava at home, sweetness in relationship with Krishna. So
in one sense there is no difference. If we understand this,
then we can worship the Supreme in a proper way.

O.K. Vishnu no problem, we can accept as supreme.

Lord Ram Chandra, Maryada Purushottam, no problem He
lived very impeccable nice life. Krishna Supreme Lord! too
difficult to digest, because He did so many things, difficult to
digest. In fact after seeing Mahabharat, people concluded,
this guy is a big politician. How dare He is speaking
Bhagavad-Gita, all morality and He expects its following. It
is very, very difficult to understand Krishna until and unless
we hear from a proper source otherwise we will be confused.
In fact there are two symptoms of ignorance. Number one,
thinking Krishna to be an ordinary person and second,
thinking an ordinary person to be Krishna Just because he
can produce something or do some jugglery or do some
mystic sidhis. Krishna is not ordinary and no ordinary person
can be Krishna. Sri Krishna says in Gita, seventh chapter;
seventh verse B.G. (7.7)

m:¶:H p:rt:rö n:any:etkeWc:dest: D:n:Wj:y: .

m:ey: s:v:üem:dö ):ðt:ö s:Ü*:ð m:eN:g:N:a Ev: ..
There is no one superior.

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 One may wonder how it is possible that a little child
can be Supreme controller & Supreme proprietor. It is very
different to digest. We find that great devatas, they are
completely seemingly independent Lords but here we find
Supreme independent Lord, how can He be independent
when He is so much dependent on His mother? In fact
sometimes Krishna would run out and there are a lot of
thunder and rain, he will run and come to His mother very
fearful. We find that people of this world, those whose are
moral and respected, but here we find the Supreme Lord
doing the most immoral activities of stealing, who glorifies
the thieves? It is very difficult to digest.

The devotees of the Supreme Lord are fearless but here

Lord becoming so fearful and telling mother, please don’t
bind me. I am afraid, with tears in His eyes He is telling
Yashoda, please don’t bind me. Every thing is all right but
this is too much. How can the Lord dare speak the
Bhagavad-Gita and speak morality to the whole world when
He himself dances with other men’s wives in the middle of
the night in the bushes in a place 93 Kilometers southeast of
Delhi, it is too different to digest. Therefore, Sri Krishna says
in Gita, fourth chapter; ninth verse B.G. (4.9)

j:nm: km:ü c: m:ð edvy:m:ðv:ö y::ð v:ðe¶: t:¶v:t:H .

ty:Vtv:a dðhö p:Øn:j:ünm: n:òet: m:am:ðet: s::ð|j:Øün: ..
Arjuna! my birth and activities are transcendental
one, who knows this in essence, never takes birth in this
material world again but comes back to my Supreme abode
from which no one comes down. What does this mean that
His birth and activities are transcendental? Transcendental
means beyond the laws of nature. He is supremely
independent. Whenever He wants, He can come, whatever
He wants He can do and wherever He wants, He can go.
That is Krishna. Even before Krishna came, His birth was
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taken by Kansa, the voice announced the appearance of
Krishna as eighth child of Devaki and immediately, Kansa
was so upset that he wanted to Kill Devaki.

Krishna’s activities were transcendental. Even when He

was born, He was born outside the womb of Devaki, in a
four handed form to remind Devaki and Vasudev, how they
had done a lot of austerities and asked Krishna to be their
child. Therefore, to satisfy that benediction of Devaki &
Vasudev Krishna appeared. Krishna reminded them that you
asked me to be our son three times, I appeared as
Vamandev, I appeared as Krishnigarbha and now I am
appearing as my own self in my own beautiful form of
Krishna. So saying, He reduced Himself to His beautiful form
of small Lord Krishna. Even when He was one month old, He
killed eight mile long Putana who had come anointed her
breast with poison, so poisonous that it could kill thousands
of people at mass. Krishna not only sucked from her breast
the poison, and the milk and the blood but also her life air
and in this way demoness Putana gave up her life.

When He was a young boy, there was a forest fire

and Krishna told His cowherd boyfriends just close your eyes
and He devoured the forest fire. There was a demon called
Aghasura of huge size with open mouth of the size of a
playground. Boys fearlessly walked in. Krishna saw this, He
also entered inside and Aghasura thought, now Krishna is
finished and He closed His mouth. Krishna expanded Himself
so much that Aghasura was choked and his eyes blew out of
his sockets and he gasped and died and he opened his
mouth, again and everyone walked out.

Krishna is called Natwar. One big huge serpent with

hundred hoods called Kalia, very, very poisonous, who had
contaminated the water of Yamuna. Even a bird that flow-
over the water, because of this poisonous effect will be
killed. But Krishna effortlessly went there, got on to his head
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begged forgiveness. This personality which had killed so
many just could not do anything and Krishna effortlessly
danced just like a boy does Bharat-natyam on stage. He was
dancing on hoods of snake which was so slippery and trying
to kill him. Effortlessly Krishna danced on his head and
subdued Him.

Krishna, even when He was a young boy, mother

Yashoda wanted to look into His month when there was a
complaint that He had eaten dirt. Krishna opened His mouth
and showed her who He was. Within little mouth of Krishna,
Yashodamai could see the whole cosmic manifestation, the
whole material universes and spiritual world also. In fact she
saw herself looking into the mouth of Krishna, in the mouth
of Krishna. She fainted, then Krishna smiled and Yashoda
conveniently forgot. Yashoda thought no, no this is my child,
I have to feed Him milk otherwise He will become sick. That
is love of mother Yashoda.

In eleventh chapter of Gita, Krishna demonstrated His

universal form. That millions of mouths, millions of hands,
millions of legs. Krishna was showing everything within the
cosmic manifestation including Lord Shiva, Lord Brahma;
everyone was seen within the body of Sri Krishna. All these
devatas were seen in the body of Krishna as His part &
parcels.

Krishna is Bhagwan. He is all opulent He is all

knowledge, all beauty, all wealth, all renunciation, all power.
Here is sample of His knowledge. He just spoke for one and
half hour and since one and half million years, people are
trying to understand and still not able to completely
understand the depth of the knowledge spoken in seven
hundred verses of the Gita.

The position of all the devatas- we have thirty three

crores of them but their position is, every one of them is
always worshiping the supreme Lord Krishna.

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 The position of devatas with respect of Krishna was
demonstrated many a times. Once, when Vraja-vasies were
worshiping Indra, Krishna said, you don’t need to worship
Indra, you worship Govardhana Hill, I am telling you. They
said no, no…, after we worship Indra. Krishna said no, no….,
I am telling you, you first worship Me. Sometimes people
ask this question, we are worshiping our Kul-devata and
suppose we stop the problems will come and this is what
happened. Vraja-vasies stopped the worship of their Kul-
devata, Indra. Indra was enraged, he decided to completely
annihilate them and he sent rains, that kind of rains which
will annihilate the Universe at the time of cataclysm. But
Krishna effortlessly lifted the Govardhana Hill on the little
finger of His left hand. For seven days and seven nights
Krishna held it like this, effortlessly. He was smiling on all
the Gopis. At that time Indra understood this boy is not
ordinary. He is real Indra, He is supreme Indra. Then along
with his Iravat which brought the Ganges from heavenly
planets, he came, did Abhishek of Krishna in the place called
Govindkund in Vrindavan. Then Indra with all his opulence,
bowed down before seven year old boy seemingly little boy,
Supreme Lord Krishna and begged for forgiveness. He said
my Lord, I am not Indra, You are the real Indra. You are the
controller of all controllers.

The creator of this universe, the first entity of this

universe is Lord Brahma who received this knowledge from
Krishna but the same Brahma once got bewildered when he
saw Krishna eating the remnants from the mouth of all His
cow-herd boys. He thought, is this my Supreme Lord? Let
me test Him. What he did was, when the boys were sitting,
cows & calves were grazing. Brahmaji stole all the calves &
cows. The boys were thinking where are our calves & cows?
Krishna said, okay, you eat lunch I will look into for them &
Krishna went. Nowhere could He see the calves & cows but
when He came, boys were also missing. Brahmaji had stolen
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of Brahmaloka for one moment and came back. But one
moment of Brahmaloka was like one year on this planet. So
when he came, one year had passed. But surprisingly when
Brahma came, he saw Krishna sitting with all the boys and
the cows & calves were there. Then he flew to cave where
he had hidden the boys and the calves and opened the
mouth of the cave and looked inside. He had put them to
Yog-nidra. All of them were sleeping. When he closed and
looked outside, boys were there also. He got illusioned,
again and again, here and there, to and fro and then he got
completely confused. Are these people the original ones and
these others duplicate or are they original and these are
duplicate? Or both are original and my brain is duplicating.
Or are both duplicate and there is no original. Completely he
was confused. At that time Krishna, right in front of Brahma,
all the cowherd boys, all the calves, all the cows transformed
into beautiful four hand form of Vishnu with Shankh, Gadha,
Chakra and Padma, whom Lord Brahma always worship and
right in front of Lord Brahma, all these Vishnu forms,
merged into the body of Krishna and lord Brahma
understood the position of Lord Krishna because for one
year, Krishna had expanded Himself into all the boys, all the
calves and all the cows. Then Brahmaji with his four heads
fell down at the feet of Lord Krishna with all his four helmets
touching the ground. Then he begged for forgiveness and a
very powerful statement he made. He said, “My Lord, people
may think I know Krishna or people may claim they know
you, I am now beginning to know your glories. Just
beginning to know your glories and I can never ever know
all your glories. With so saying, Brahmaji offered his
obeisances to the little boy Krishna and said my Lord, you
are completely the supreme Lord, cause of all causes, I offer
my obeisances to you.

Position of Lord Shiva- Shiva is a very, very special

personality. Lord Shiva’s position is greater than that of
Brahma, though Lord Shiva emerged from in-between the
eye-brows of Brahma. Lord Shiva is Vaishnava naam Yatha

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Shambhu. He is the greatest of all the Vaishnavas. He is
greatest devotee of the Lord. In Padma Purana, he tells
Parvati, Oh! Beautiful faced one; I always take pleasure in
the name of chanting Sri Ram, Ram…. Then he said, if you
want anything I can give you, but if you want to get away
from the cycle of birth and death, the only person you
should take shelter, is Mukunda. The other meaning of the
word Mukunda is the giver of liberation. And he says, if
some one is supremely worship able, that person is none
other than Supreme Lord Vishnu or Krishna.

Krishna says in Gita, why He comes down; He says in

fourth chapter; eighth verse B.G. (4.8)

p:er*:aN:ay: s:aD:Ün:aö ev:n:aS:ay: c: dÙ\kát:am:Î .

D:m:üs:ösT:ap:n:aT:aüy: s:mB:v:aem: y:Øg:ð y:Øg:ð ..
Whenever the demons are troubling the devatas, the
asuras are troubling suras, then they approach Brahma and
when Brahma can also not solve the problem, they go to
Kshira Ocean and there they meditate on the Supreme Lord
Vishnu and then Vishnu says, alright, I am going to be born
and do the needful.

So Vishnu is the creator from whom everything

manifests but actually Vishnu is also an expansion of the
Supreme Lord Krishna. From Krishna, the first expansion is
Balram, from Him Sankarshan, Avnirudha, Pradumna &
Vasudev. From Him is Narayana and from Him is another
quadruple expansion and from Him is MahaVishnu then
Garbhodakshay Vishnu and then Kshirodakshay Vishnu. It is
big science. But ultimately, Vishnu and Krishna are
ultimately one and the same.

From one expansion of Vishnu, millions of universes

come out and then in each universe, the same Vishnu enters
as Garbhodakshay Vishnu. And from its naval, Lord Brahma

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appears and then all the devatas appear in each universe. In
each universe there are different Brahmas, different Indras,
different Chandras, different Varunas, different Vayus but
supreme Lord Krishna, the source of everything is one.

Garbhodakshay Vishnu is lying down and Lakshmiji is

massaging his feet.

There are various incarnations; Krishna is the original

source of all these avataras. There are as many avataras as
many waves in the ocean, uncountable, innumerable but
source of everything is ultimately Krishna.

Krishna Mande Jagat Guru, He is supreme Guru of all

gurus. But just to set a proper example for us, Krishna also
accepted a Guru, just to show us importance of acceptance
of a spiritual master to understand about self realization.
Krishna performed various beautiful past times. To reduce
the burden of earth, there was a planned battle of
Kurukshetra, where He systematically organized in such a
way that the burden of the whole earth was reduced by
killing of all the demoniac people.

He spoke this beautiful Gita simply for the benefit of

all of us. There was no necessity for Him to speak, there was
no necessity for Arjuna to know, but using Arjuna as an
instrument, He gave us the teachings of the Gita.

Krishna gave us understanding of what is beyond this

material world. The spiritual world of Vaikuntha Loka, where
He Himself resides and He gave us instructions in the Gita,
how to come to that Supreme Abode.

Why Krishna performed these beautiful past times,

simply to attract the mind of conditioned living entities like
us. He does not need butter, He has millions of Lakshmis
serving Him beautiful Ghee and butter but He steals simply
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 Sometimes Krishna will steal. He would be caught
and He would be so fearful on the way. Mother Yashoda and
Gopis will chase Him all over Vraja. Krishna would keep
running and then they would catch and they would come
and complain to mother Yashoda. Yashoda could not believe.
No, no I give Him best butter, I have nine lacs cows, I have
the best cows which give best butter, He cannot steal. Gopis
will say, no, He came and stole. Yashoda will get angry
Alright, I will tie Him up and when she is about to tie Him
up, Krishna would make such a sweet face that Yashoda’s
heat would melt to tie him. His body was as soft as butter
and He would look like this and say please, please, don’t tie
up. Gopis would say please, please, don’t tie Him. No, no
you are complaining and now I am tieing, you say don’t tie.
No, no….. Don’t tie. Then why are you complaining. Gopis
said, actually the reason why we complain is, we just want
to talk about Krishna, otherwise the whole day we churn the
butter simply for Krishna to come and steal. If Krishna
wouldn’t come, we have no interest in churning the butter.
Only reason we churn is that Krishna comes and steal the
butter and in this way steal our mind, steal our heart.
Therefore, please Yashoda, don’t tie Him up.

Krishna performed beautiful activities and established

our relations with Him. We have eternal relationship with the
Lord in the spiritual sky. Having forgotten, we have come to
this material would and trying to re-establish relationship of
Lord and servant in Santa-rasa or in the Dasya-rasa where
people are serving Krishna or in the Sakhya-rasa where
people are friends with Krishna or Vatsalya-rasa where
Krishna is serving His parents, so called parents, no one can
be parent of Krishna. He is father of everyone. Sri Krishna
says in Gita, ninth chapter; seventeenth verse B.G. (9.17)

ep:t:ahm:sy: j:g:t::ð m:at:a D:at:a ep:t:am:hH .

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 v:ð½ö p:ev:*:m::ðökar ?Vs:am: y:j:Ørðv: c: ..
But just to satisfy devotees, He comes as a child and
satisfies them in His service and ultimately in the Madhurya-
rasa, the lover and beloving. In this way Krishna comes to
demonstrate actually how He wants to love His devotees. He
takes pleasure in washing the lotus feet of Sudama, His
friend just to establish the religious principles as to how
should we respect Brahmanas and not only that, how He
loves his devotees. He wants to serve them. This is
transcendental competition. A devotee wants to serve the
Lord and Lord wants to serve the devotee.

When we understand through proper sources, then

we know that Krishna is not ordinary cow-head boy but He is
transcendental personality. He is Govinda; He gives
satisfaction to the cows and senses.

Krishna comes and performs His beautiful past-times

to show to the world that it is not mythology, it is a fact.
Specifically Krishna comes for this purpose. When He came
as Vaman Dev, He measured the whole universe in two
steps. When He came as Matsya avatar, He occupied a body
which was eighty thousand miles long. Therefore, we need
to hear from a proper source. What is the capacity of
Krishna? For you lifting a pen may not be a problem, but for
an ant, this is like lifting Govardhana. If two ants will be
discussing, see this personality which has lifted the
mountain. Similarly something may be difficult for us, but
not for others. Ants may think it is mythology and may say I
cannot lift how he can lift. It may not be possible for you
that do not mean that Krishna can also not do that. That is
exactly why Krishna comes and performs specifically such
kind of activities which will go into the Guineas book of world
record and no one can break that record. You can lift three
fifty kilos but lift Govardhana. Krishna in the form & Vishnu
breathes out and millions of Universes come out of the pores
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not heard it from proper source. God means, nothing is
impossible for Him. Even devatas look down upon us and
smile at us, poor fellows. We are like ants walking on streets
of Bombay for devatas. Then Brahma is looking down at
devatas, you fools! you think you are very great but I am
great, I have created the whole universe. Vishnu is looking
on Brahma, I simply breathe and millions of Brahmas come
out. I breathe in and all the Brahmas go inside. It is a very
relative world, we try to see things from our perspective and
Krishna specifically comes to destroy irrational theory.
Krishna wants to tell the world, you cannot understand
through your rational head, you have to have faith. And faith
can only come when you associate with those who have
faith. Not blind faith but implicit faith. There is proof. It is
very difficult to disprove the existence of God but it is so
easy to prove the existence of God. Creation implies creator,
laws imply, law maker, but it is very difficult to prove
otherwise. We are so much conditioned by this material
world, just because it is not possible for us, we think it is all
mythology. Even now Krishna is doing miracles right in front
of us, but we have to have eyes to see. We see these
beautiful flowers, can you make a flower even if all
ingredients to make the flower are given to you. Krishna’s
nature is making beautiful flowers. Krishna is producing so
many beauties through His nature. Right in front of us
creation is there but we don’t have the eyes to see. There
are little or tiny miracles but Krishna has bigger miracles
also. But we are so dull, if a man barks like a dog, we pay
two hundred rupees to go and watch him bark like a dog,
but dog is barking, no one goes to watch. Similarly, if
someone paints a beautiful flower painting, we pay millions
of dollars to buy it, but so many flowers are painted, who
paints it, Krishna through His nature. This is not mythology,
but you have to thoroughly, scientifically, systematically,
stage by stage understand. Therefore, it is called science of
self-realization, not the art. Look at your own body, every
cell is like a city, it is a perfect design. Who designed it? By
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perception. If you see through proper eyes, then you can
see Krishna’s glories everywhere, otherwise everything is a
myth.

You may ask question, you told if we know the cause

of al causes, then your problem is solved, and know we
know the cause of all causes is Krishna but birth is going to
come, old age is going to come, disease is going to come
and death is going to come. Where is the problem solved?
For this you need to know one more thing, who are we?
What is our relationship with the cause of all causes? Unless
we know this, we can not completely understand the truth.

Who am I? the science of soul. What is my

relationship with the cause of all causes? Why I have been
created? What is my position in this material world? What
am I supposed to be doing? What am I not supposed to be
doing? Hare Krishna!

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