Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.9.30

Anantarām Śāstrījī:

oṁ ajñāna-timirāndhasya jñānāñjana-śalākayā cakṣur unmīlitaṁ yena tasmai śrī-gurave namaḥ

Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [chants verse; Prabhupāda and devotees respond. Prabhupāda queries amuṣya yat tvam; corrects devotees' pronunciation] [break]

ekas tvam eva jagad etam amuṣya yat tvam ādy-antayoḥ pṛthag avasyasi madhyataś ca sṛṣṭvā guṅa-vyatikaraṁ nija-māyayedaṁ nāneva tair avasitas tad anupraviṣṭaḥ [SB 7.9.30]

Puṣṭa Kṛṣṅa: [chants synonyms; devotees respond] [break]

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Translation: "My dear Lord, You alone manifest Yourself as the whole cosmic manifestation because before the creation of this cosmic manifestation You were existing, and You exist also after the annihilation. Therefore, between the beginning and end, You are the maintainer. All these things are being done by Your external energy through the action and reaction of the three modes of material nature. Therefore the conclusion is that whatever is existing, it is You only, externally and internally."

Prabhupāda:

ekas tvam eva jagad etam amuṣya yat tvam ādy-antayoḥ pṛthag avasyasi madhyataś ca sṛṣṭvā guṅa-vyatikaraṁ nija-māyayedaṁ nāneva tair avasitas tad anupraviṣṭaḥ [SB 7.9.30]

Very interesting. This is realization of God. There is difference, varieties; at the same time they're one. Unity in variety. So in the Brahma-saṁhitā also it is stated, eko 'py asau racayituṁ jagad-aṅḍa-koṭi [Bs 5.35].

[He is an undifferentiated entity as there is no distinction between potency and the possessor thereof. In His work of creation of millions of worlds, His potency remains inseparable. All the universes exist in Him and He is present in His fullness in every one of the atoms that are scattered throughout the universe, at one and the same time. Such is the primeval Lord whom I adore.]

There are many millions of universes, jagad-aṅḍa-koṭi. Jagad-aṅḍa means "this universe," and koṭi means "millions." Don't think this is the only universe. There are many millions' universes. In God creation there is no limitation. Everything unlimited. Even this universe, to us it is a great, wonderful thing. We do not know even what are there in the four corners of this universe—millions and millions of stars, millions of planets, millions and millions of oceans, mountains, and what to speak of living entities? Everything unlimited. The universe... It is also stated in the Brahma-saṁhitā, yasya prabhā prabhavato jagad-aṅḍa-koṭi [Bs 5.40].

[I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, whose effulgence is the source of the nondifferentiated Brahman mentioned in the Upaniṣads, being differentiated from the infinity of glories of the mundane universe appears as the indivisible, infinite, limitless, truth.]

In the effulgence of Brahman... The example is also there; it is not very difficult. Just like in the sunshine is the effulgence, shine. Sun is there, and the shining is there, but within the shining there are innumerable planets. In the daytime we cannot see, but at night we can see wherefrom these stars and planets coming. They are already there. In the sunshine, due to the bright sunshine, we cannot see them, but they are existing. As our planet is existing within the sunshine, so similarly, there are millions of planets. They are also existing. Yasya... Similarly, yasya prabhā prabhavato jagad-aṅḍa-koṭi. This is only universe, but these each universe, millions of universes, they are existing within the Brahman effulgence, brahma-jyoti, both spiritual and material. Everything is there.

So this is the creation of the Supreme Lord. He says,

athavā bahunaitena kiṁ jñātena tavārjuna vistabhya aham idaṁ kṛtsnam ekāṁśena sthito jagat [Bg 10.42]

[But what need is there, Arjuna, for all this detailed knowledge? With a single fragment of Myself I pervade and support this entire universe.]

"I enter into this creation." Without spiritual creation, without spiritual entities, there cannot be development of material. That is our contention, that this material world has developed because Kṛṣṅa has entered it. Anupraviṣṭaḥ, it is said here clearly. Tair avasitas tad anupraviṣṭaḥ: "Because You have entered, therefore things have developed." Aṅḍāntara-sthaṁ paramāṅu-cayāntara... [Bs 5.35].

[He is an undifferentiated entity as there is no distinction between potency and the possessor thereof. In His work of creation of millions of worlds, His potency remains inseparable. All the universes exist in Him and He is present in His fullness in every one of the atoms that are scattered throughout the universe, at one and the same time. Such is the primeval Lord whom I adore.]

Without spiritual touch, nothing can develop. We have got practical experience that without the spirit soul, the body cannot develop. If a dead child comes out, the body does not develop. Because the spirit soul is there... So this nonsense theory that "Within the womb of the mother, unless the body is developed to seven months, there is no life," what is this nonsense? The body has developed to that seven months' condition because there is a spirit soul. Otherwise how it becomes seven months' developed? You'll find this description in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

Therefore the knowledge received from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is perfect. Any knowledge which does not corroborate with the knowledge in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, that is useless knowledge. Therefore, in the beginning of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is said, dharmaḥ projjhita-kaitavo 'tra paramo nirmatsarāṅāṁ satāṁ vāstava-vastu vedyam atra [SB 1.1.2].

[Completely rejecting all religious activities which are materially motivated, this Bhāgavata Purāṅa propounds the highest truth, which is understandable by those devotees who are fully pure in heart. The highest truth is reality distinguished from illusion for the welfare of all. Such truth uproots the threefold miseries. This beautiful Bhāgavatam, compiled by the great sage Vyāsadeva [in his maturity], is sufficient in itself for God realization. What is the need of any other scripture? As soon as one attentively and submissively hears the message of Bhāgavatam, by this culture of knowledge the Supreme Lord is established within his heart.]

Vāstava-vastu, real knowledge. This is real knowledge. In the Bhāgavata it is said, karmaṅā daiva-netreṅa jantor deho upapatti [SB 3.31.1]:

[The Personality of Godhead said: Under the supervision of the Supreme Lord and according to the result of his work, the living entity, the soul, is made to enter into the womb of a woman through the particle of male semen to assume a particular type of body.]

"A living entity gets a body," upapatti, "according to karma." Everything is stated there. After sex, the living entity takes shelter within the semina and ovum of the father and mother, and it be... It is... The formation is just like a small grain. That grain develops because the spirit soul has taken shelter. Then body. It is not that the body develops automatically, and at seven months there is life. No. Life... The consciousness may be there. That is another... Consciousness... Sometimes, if I am surcharged with anesthetics, if I am chloroformed, my consciousness is not there. That does not mean I am not there. Consciousness sometimes may be absent. One man fainted; there is no consciousness. That does not mean there is no life. There is life. The consciousness has not developed.

So this is the anupraviṣṭaḥ. This is the fact. Matter cannot develop without the entrance of the spirit, either the spark of the spirit or the Supreme Spirit. Eko 'py asau racayituṁ jagad-aṅḍa-koṭi yac-chaktir asti jagad-aṅḍa-cayā yad-antam, aṅḍāntarastham: He enters. We have got many informations that this brahmāṅḍa, the Garbhodakaśayī Viṣṅu enters. Then, from His abdomen, the lotus flower stem is there. Then Brahmā comes, and then Brahmā creates. So the original creation or the beginning of the activities of this universe was first the entrance of Garbhodakaśayī Viṣṅu. The Mahā-Viṣṅu... Yasyaika-niśvasita-kālam athāvalambya jīvanti loma-vilajā jagad-aṅḍa-nāthāḥ [Bs 5.48].

[Brahmā and other lords of the mundane worlds, appearing from the pores of hair of Mahā-Viṣṅu, remain alive as long as the duration of one exhalation of the latter [Mahā-Viṣṅu]. I adore the primeval Lord Govinda of whose subjective personality Mahā-Viṣṅu is the portion of portion.]

First of all this universe is one of the millions of universes who is coming out from the pores of the transcendental body of Mahā-Viṣṅu, and then Mahā-Viṣṅu, in the form of Garbhodakaśayī Viṣṅu, enters each and every universe, and then things takes place. Then Brahmā is created. This is the process of creation. Anupraviṣṭaḥ. The first entrance is of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

So actually, ekas tvam eva: "Whatever we are seeing, that is... You are." Ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ [Bg 10.8],

[I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who know this perfectly engage in My devotional service and worship Me with all their hearts.]

the Bhagavad-gītā says. Aham, that is one, Kṛṣṅa. Mām ekam. That is one. So actually everything is that same Kṛṣṅa. In the Bhagavad-gītā further explains, aham... What is that? Mayā tatam idam. Mayā tatam idaṁ sarvam. Sarvam, everything. Everything is expanded. Mayā tatam idam. Tatam means expanded; idam, this universe or this world or everything, whatever you take... Mayā tatam idaṁ sarvaṁ jagad avyakta-mūrtinā [Bg 9.4].

[By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All beings are in Me, but I am not in them.]

He... That is His avyakta, impersonal form. Everything is Kṛṣṅa, but that does not mean that His personal form is finished. Because He is expanded everywhere... This is Māyāvāda theory, that "Because God has expanded in so many varieties, therefore God has no form." No. That is not the fact. Fact is, goloka eva nivasaty akhilātma-bhūtaḥ [Bs 5.37].

[I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, residing in His own realm, Goloka, with Rādhā, resembling His own spiritual figure, the embodiment of the ecstatic potency possessed of the sixty-four artistic activities, in the company of Her confidantes [sakhīs], embodiments of the extensions of Her bodily form, permeated and vitalized by His ever-blissful spiritual rasa.]

He is... In His original sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ [Bs 5.1], He is existing always in Goloka Vṛn...

[Kṛṣṅa who is known as Govinda is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin and He is the prime cause of all causes.]

He does not go anywhere, leaving aside His friends, father, mother, beloved—anywhere. He's always... Vṛndāvanaṁ parityajya padam ekaṁ na gacchati. He does not go anywhere. Padam ekaṁ na gacchati.

Just like a big man... We have got so many examples. A big man, he is sitting at his home. With family he's enjoying. But he is managing many, many hundreds of factories sitting there. We have got practical experience. Big, big business magnate, they do not come to the office, neither he goes to the factory. Simply by his order, telephone, "You do this," that's all; things are going on. So if it is possible materially that one ordinary man, he can manage hundreds of factories and offices without going there, simply by his order, so how much powerful is Kṛṣṅa we have to imagine. Ṣaḍ-aiśvarya-pūrṅaḥ. Still, even a man or even a demigod... Just like demigod Indra: he's managing the affairs of rains, how to collect the clouds, how to disperse them, how... And there are management, so many managements. But all these managements are going on on the supreme management, Kṛṣṅa. Therefore He says in the Bhagavad-gītā that mayādhyakṣeṅa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sa-carācaram [Bg 9.10].

[This material nature is working under My direction, O son of Kuntī, and it is producing all moving and unmoving beings. By its rule this manifestation is created and annihilated again and again.]

This is to be understood. That one Supreme Person, He is managing everything. The material and spiritual world, everything is being managed by Him. That is God. God is not so cheap. This is God.

So Prahlāda Mahārāja, Vaiṣṅava, he understands that "You are the only origin of everything." Janmādy asya yataḥ [SB 1.1.1]. Ekas tvam eva jagat. The cosmic manifestation is changing, but the real cause is ekas tvam eva: "My Lord, You are the..." Ekas tvam eva jagad etat amuṣya yat tvam: "The cause and effect both You are. The cause and effect." There is no different cause. Sarva-kāraṅa-kāraṅam [Bs 5.1]. That is also confirmed in the Brahma-saṁhitā:

īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṅaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ anādir ādir govindaḥ sarva-kāraṅa-kāraṅam [Bs 5.1]

[Kṛṣṅa who is known as Govinda is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin and He is the prime cause of all causes.]

He is cause and effect both, sarva-kāraṅa-kāraṅam. Therefore Kṛṣṅa says in the Bhagavad-gītā, mayā tatam idaṁ sarvam [Bg 9.4]: "I am the original cause."

[By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All beings are in Me, but I am not in them.]

ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate iti matvā bhajante māṁ budhā bhāva-samanvitāḥ [Bg 10.8]

[I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who know this perfectly engage in My devotional service and worship Me with all their hearts.]

So those who are actually devotee, just like Prahlāda Mahārāja, such devotee can understand it is only Kṛṣṅa. He is, by His unlimited power, ṣaḍ-aiśvarya-pūrṅaḥ, He is exhibiting in different ways. Ekas tvam eva jagad etam amuṣya yat tvam ādyam. The same thing you'll find. Vedic literature means there is no contradiction. Either you read this Veda or that Veda, it is not... People who are foolish, who cannot understand, they sometimes see contradiction. No. There is no contradiction. Same one law. Therefore, because we are limited, or our knowledge is limited, imperfect, therefore we should not argue. We shall accept what is stated in the Veda. And if we argue, then we'll find unnecessarily contradiction and we'll be misled. Don't argue. There is no question of... Veda-vācana. Veda-vācana means veda-pramāṅa, śruti-pramāṅa. This is the way of Vedic civilization. If you can prove something quoting from the Vedas, then you are victorious. Veda-pramāṅa. Śruti-pramāṅa. There are many evidences, but the first-class evidence is śruti-pramāṅa. Śruti-smṛti-purāṅādi-pañcarātriki-vidhiṁ vinā [Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 1.2.101].

[Devotional service of the Lord that ignores the authorized Vedic literatures like the Upaniṣads, Purāṅas and Nārada-pañcarātra is simply an unnecessary disturbance in society.]

So we cannot accept some rascal as God unless there is śruti-pramāṅa, śruti-pramāṅa; unless it is proved by the evidence of the sru... We accept Caitanya Mahāprabhu as the Supreme Personality of... Na caitanyāt kṛṣṅāt para-tattvaṁ param iha [Cc Ādi 1.3]. Kṛṣṅadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī says, na caitanyat kṛṣṅat. Na caitanyāt kṛṣṅāt. Caitanya is Kṛṣṅa. As there is no para-tattva above Kṛṣṅa, similarly, there is no para-tattva above Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Kṛṣṅa says that mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat [Bg 7.7]:

[O conqueror of wealth [Arjuna], there is no Truth superior to Me. Everything rests upon Me, as pearls are strung on a thread.]

"There is no more superior truth than Me." And the same Kṛṣṅa is Kṛṣṅa Caitanya. Namo mahā-vadanyāya kṛṣṅa-prema-pradāya te, kṛṣṅāya kṛṣṅa-caitanya-nāmne [Cc Madhya 19.53],

[O most munificent incarnation! You are Kṛṣṅa Himself appearing as Śrī Kṛṣṅa Caitanya Mahāprabhu. You have assumed the golden color of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṅī, and You are widely distributing pure love of Kṛṣṅa. We offer our respectful obeisances unto You.]

Rūpa Gosvāmī. Therefore we have to follow Rūpa Gosvāmī. He says that "My Lord, Caitanya Mahāprabhu, You are Kṛṣṅa. You have simply changed the name: Kṛṣṅa Caitanya. You are Kṛṣṅa." Similarly, Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya says that vairāgya-vidyā-nija-bhakti-yoga-śikṣārtham ekaḥ puruṣaḥ purāṅaḥ [Cc Madhya 6.254]. The same purāṅa-puruṣa, ādyaṁ puruṣa. Puruṣam ādyam, Kṛṣṅa. Vairāgya-vidya-nija-bhakti-yoga-śikṣārtham ekaḥ puruṣaḥ..., śrī-kṛṣṅa-caitanya-śarīra-dhārī: "The same Supreme Person, Kṛṣṅa, You have now appeared in a body which is called Śrī Kṛṣṅa Caitanya. Actually You are the same Kṛṣṅa."

So where... Why He has come? Now, kṛṣṅa-prema-pradāya te [Cc Madhya 19.53]. As Kṛṣṅa, He could not give Him to everyone. Kṛṣṅa ordered—because He is the Supreme Person, He can order—sarva-dharmān parityajya māṁ ekaṁ śaraṅaṁ vraja [Bg 18.66], but He could not induce. We are so rascal that we could not take even directly the order of Kṛṣṅa. We are so rascal. Therefore Kṛṣṅa again thought that "These rascals, they could not understand Me. All right, now let Me appear as a devotee of Kṛṣṅa, and I shall give not only Kṛṣṅa but kṛṣṅa-prema."

This is mahā-vadānyāya. This is Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Therefore He is mahā-vadānya. He's not only giving Kṛṣṅa but kṛṣṅa-prema. That is wanted. Prema pumārtho mahān. Our this human form of life is meant for achieving love of Godhead. That is perfection of life. That is perfection of life. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu is mahā-vadānyāvatāra because He is giving kṛṣṅa-prema. Therefore you'll see, any person, after chanting Śrī Kṛṣṅa Caitanya Mahāprabhu, if he chants Hare Kṛṣṅa mahā-mantra, immediately he becomes in ecstasy. Kṛṣṅa-prema-pradāya te [Cc Madhya 19.53].

[O most munificent incarnation! You are Kṛṣṅa Himself appearing as Śrī Kṛṣṅa Caitanya Mahāprabhu. You have assumed the golden color of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṅī, and You are widely distributing pure love of Kṛṣṅa. We offer our respectful obeisances unto You.]

Immediately. Even a third-class man, even a child, even a boy, even a dog will be immediately, in ecstasy. That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

So we have got this opportunity of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's merciful movement, Hare Kṛṣṅa movement. So take it very seriously and chant śrī-kṛṣṅa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda, śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda. Kṛṣṅa-varṅam tvisakṛṣṅam [SB 11.5.32].

[In the Age of Kali, intelligent persons perform congregational chanting to worship the incarnation of Godhead who constantly sings the names of Kṛṣṅa. Although His complexion is not blackish, He is Kṛṣṅa Himself. He is accompanied by His associates, servants, weapons and confidential companions.]

That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He is Kṛṣṅa, Kṛṣṅa, but now He's chanting Kṛṣṅa. Kṛṣṅaṁ varṅayati. Hare Kṛṣṅa, Hare Kṛṣṅa, Hare Kṛṣṅa, that is Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Kṛṣṅa kṛṣṅa kṛṣṅa kṛṣṅa kṛṣṅa kṛṣṅa kṛṣṅa he, kṛṣṅa kṛṣṅa... That is the... It is confirmed in the Vedas that "In the Kali-yuga the Lord will appear as this," kṛṣṅa-varṅaṁ tviṣa akṛṣṅam. He is always describing Kṛṣṅa. When He was a teacher, that time also, He was explaining Kṛṣṅa. When He was explaining grammar, He was explaining Kṛṣṅa. Therefore Jīva Gosvāmī, understanding the desire of Caitanya Mahāprabhu, he compiled Hari-nāmāmṛta-vyakāraṅa. In the vyakāraṅa, in the grammar, all examples, all sandhis, samāsa, everything with Hari. Hari-nāmāmṛta-vyakāraṅa. Dhātu. When Caitanya Mahāprabhu was explaining dhātu... Dhātu has got different meaning. Dhātu means the life force, the vital force. So He was explaining that this dhātu means Kṛṣṅa. When Kṛṣṅa is not there, then life is finished. So the disciples who were students, they thought that "This person has gone mad." You see? So they criticized. So immediately Caitanya Mahāprabhu closed the paṭha-śala.

So that is kṛṣṅa varṅayati. In everything He was explaining Kṛṣṅa. And when He was preaching, He talked with the Muhammadans, Afghans, and He proved from Koran there is Kṛṣṅa devotion, from Koran. That is kṛṣṅa-varṅayati. Kṛṣṅa-varṅam. Anywhere He will explain Kṛṣṅa. Then nothing. And therefore He has advised everyone that yāre dekha tāre kaha kṛṣṅa upadeśa [Cc Madhya 7.128].

[Instruct everyone to follow the orders of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṅa as they are given in the Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. In this way become a spiritual master and try to liberate everyone in this land.]

This is Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Yāre dekha tāre kaha kṛṣṅa upadeśa. So one has to learn this art, how to explain Kṛṣṅa in every step of life. That is Kṛṣṅa consciousness movement.

Thank you very much.

Devotees: Jaya Prabhupāda. Haribol. [end]