"Lord Krishna is God, says who?" by Amarnath (Amarendra) Prabhu - 10/7/2016

0:22 namaste Krishna gadadhar Hur Krishna Hur Krishna Krishna Krishna H hurry Hur H H Hur H Krishna hurry Krishna Krishna Krishna hurry hurry Hur H hurry hurry hurry Krishna hurry Krishna Krishna Krishna Hur hurry H H Hur hurry har Krishna so I'm very happy to be serving all of you

1:09 those who are watching live and all those who are watching through this this video we are very very happy to present um Krishna Kata for the pleasure of all the devotees as we repeat it time again that the Past Times of Krishna the forms of Krishna the description of the glories of Krishna the qualities of Krishna they purify the Consciousness therefore it is said in the scripture that who is that person who will be satisfied just by hearing once who is that person who can be

1:55 satisfied so therefore this is the process the process is to hear and chant about Krishna forever one time one person asked sh prabhupad all of your followers are chanting and hearing constantly you're chanting the names of Krishna you're chanting the glories of Krishna you're speaking from the same shrimat bhagavatam you're hearing the same pastimes you're chanting the same um Maham Mantra what do you expect out of this chanting sh prad smiled and he said we expect to continue chanting Forever This is the this is the glories this is the glories one of krishna's qualities in the bakam

2:41 synu is um ever freshness Krishna is ever fresh krishna's ever Fresh So similarly Krishna because he's ever freshh and Krishna his names forms qualities pastimes um glories narrations paraphernalia Associates are all nondifferent he's called as absolute truth which means there's no difference between Krishna and Krishna krishna's Dam krishna's friends krishna's Associates they're all transcendental there's no difference so therefore because Krishna is ever fresh and he's eternally sweet

3:30 everything to do with Krishna like krishna's names like krishna's forms krishna's glories krishna's pastimes they're all ever fresh now we are all gearing up for this month of KARK damodar month and every year for 30 days this month we speak about the same pastime of Krishna being bound by the love of mother Yoda we worship the same picture the same form we don't worship Krishna stealing butter in that but we worship Krishna being punished by his mother such a sweet Pastime but the same Pastime is spoken the same Pas time is heard the same damodar Asaka is sung but is it is ever

4:15 fresh it is always fresh it's been meditated upon from time immemorial and it will continue Forever by all those who desire their ultimate benefit so taking this discussion ahead and taking this as the base for what is to come um I have decided to speak something on the topic Krishna the Supreme personality of godhead this is one of the most common questions that is asked especially in India if you if you speak about Krishna um the most commonly asked question is why do people in Ison why do the har

5:00 krishnas always talk about Krishna why is it not Ganesha why is it not Shiva why is it not Parvati why is it not any of the other very popular controllers of this world why do you always talk about Krishna what is the proof that Krishna is God some people even to become popular come up with so many different types of philosophies there's one person who would come and say that well God doesn't exist and then he gets the votes of all those who are atheistic then another person comes in and he says God exists but all these names that you see they're all one everybody is God then the third person comes in and

5:45 he says no no no there's only one God and that's me and the fourth person comes and he says everything is God you are God I am God this is God that is God everything is God so in this way there's so much of confusion you speak about God and it's taken to be the GW it's very difficult to understand but sha prabhupad when he came to the west and even when he preached in India he never compromised he never diluted the conclusions of the scripture to match the opinion of the crowd he kept the standard of the scriptures as it is and presented it bridged it in a way that people could understand he

6:32 never diluted the philosophy he never said well the puranas say this the upanishad say this the vas say this Gita says this bhagwatam says this but you know what ultimately yamat reality is what you think it is he never said that he made it very crystal clear and it's not a cult it's not something that we all believe in unanimously because of some uh worldwide brainwashing we are fixed we we follow this not because of Blind Faith but because of authenticated faith we we look to the revealed scriptures the the words of God the wisdom texts of um Vic um

7:21 age and on the basis of the conclusions of different shastras and scriptural injunctions we put the things together and we are understand what the reality is so in today's class um to make things more easier and accessible something that generally people don't sit and research on their own by the mercy of sha prabhupad and all the different aaras whom we'll be quoting we have come up with a small list um of different names and different powerful controllers in this world and what they feel about this whole matter who is God and is Krishna really God so in this um discussion we'll quote uh a

8:08 few demigods we'll quote a few Ries a few devotees and then we'll hear from the top three we'll hear from Brahma we'll hear from Shiva and then we'll hear from Krishna straight from the horse mouth we'll hear from Krishna too so let's start with Ganesha Kesha is the very popular um personality worshipable personality in India especially in Maharashtra they celebrate uh Ganesh chaturti and it's a it's a very festive occasion in Mumbai especially and in Pune and other places when um the Elephant Head demigod Ganesha comes in for a few days so in the Brahma samita uh the conclusion of Brahma

8:55 chapter 5 TT 50 Lord Brahma says Lord Brahma links Krishna to Ganesha and he says says yet the Lotus feet yugam the two Lotus feet of Krishna where are they kept it is kept on the head of Ghadi Raja ghi Raja Raja means king ADI means

9:42 Etc and Ghana means troops so Ganesha or ganad Raja means same the lord of the troops Ganesha ganapati so it said the elephant headed Ganesha he gets the power to do what vgan VH he destroys the obstacles Jag he destroys the obstacles of all the Personalities in all the three worlds vgan vgan means obstacles vhum H vum to special very carefully destroy all the obstacles all the blocks roadblocks the burdens that come up on the path of uh material and spiritual

10:29 lives of all the Personalities in three worlds that's his service therefore he is also called as vnaa he who takes away the obstacles on our path you have a path and then you have speed Breakers it's Ganesha who takes the speed Breakers away but now the question is where does he get that power to uproot those speed Breakers to uproot those obstacles and Brahma says Lord Ganesha gets the power to uproot and to destroy the obstacles on the path of all the Jas in the three Worlds by clasping by holding the Lotus feet of Govinda SRI Krishna on the top of his

11:14 elephant head so this is a very wonderful expression to say that how Lord Ganesha acts as a perfect instrument the actual Glory of Ganesha is not to say that he is God because he himself will be uncomfortable because that's not his position but the actual Glory of Ganesha the actual praise the actual manner of glorifying him is by saying how wonderfully he depends on the mercy of the Lord how wonderfully he acts as an instrument in the hands of Krishna with an elephant head considered to be very very intelligent the writer of the scriptures where does he get his power from he gets his power to do his service

12:01 by holding the Lotus feet of the Lord so this is a very important principle Even in our life when we are stuck in situations where we don't know where how to uproot the obstacles where we don't know how to get the strength to do our service he's teaching us to hold the Lotus feet of the Lord on the head the glories of holding the Lord's Lotus feet is profusely sung in the shrimat bhagwatam so many verses by holding the Lotus feet of the Lord in our heart in our life on our head we can overcome

12:48 everything Brahma in Kanto 10 chapter 14 text 58 of the shrimat bhagwatam he says that this material world is like an ocean of suffering an o Ian means you have water and you can't measure the depth you can't see the other end you can't measure how wide it is insurmountable you cannot pass it you either drown or you swim or you float but you're struggling and the currents and the tides and the the Sharks and the Veals it's a very difficult place so this material world is considered to be an ocean of suffering where the water is actually suffering and where birth old age

13:33 disease and death are the the aquatics they are the sharks they are the whales they are the crocodiles but Brahma says those who hold the Lotus feet of Krishna what happens to them that Oceanic water becomes as small and as concentrated as the water held in the hoofprint of a cuff Pam what saam means the hoofprint of a CF paramam the holding the the aspect of holding the Lotus feet the

14:18 topmost treasure in the whole of creation it's so powerful that the oceanic Waters of distress of this world can be reduced to water that can be held in the hoofprint of a cuff do you have to swim through you can just jump you don't even have to jump through you have to step over cross over and Lord Ganesha is teaching Us by example how to follow principles the Mahabharat explains we cannot fathom what the reality is it's very intricate the principles of Dharma are very intricate and therefore we must

15:05 follow the great authorities and Ganesha here is a great Authority very powerful personality and he's teaching Us by example how to do one's service how to not get proud and depend on the mercy of Krishna by holding his Lotus feet on the head so you get empowered you depend on the Lord you do your service and you don't take take credit so Ganesha is teaching here how to do that and in the same chapter chapter five of the Brahma samita even the position of dura is explained very powerful personality she's considered to be and she's

15:50 explained and glorified to be the Fortress of this fort of material existence in Sanskrit g means to go and dur means not so dur basically means a prison house dur g means going and dur means don't or not so dur basically means a jail or a prison house a place where you shouldn't go or a place if you go in very difficult to come out so this material world is called as dur it's a prison house where the shackles the iron shackles are the desire to enjoy

16:36 sex gross and subtle sex gross sex is sexual Indulgence and subtle sex is desire to be recognized the desire to be honored acknowledged so deep rooted so deep rooted Puja La pratia false ego that's the shackles we don't see it we don't see the iron shackles in this world but that's how it's binding us it's grinding us it's churning us moment after moment and she is the Jailer so just like jail Jailer you have dur Durga feminine Durga she's the Fortress she's the personality she's the Jailer who takes care of this material existence and what's her position it's

17:22 described chapter 5 text 44 Brahma she is the Shakti she is the external energy of the Lord just like Lord Ganesha or ganadhi Raja does the service of overcoming obstacles by holding the Lotus feet of Krishna Durga does the service of STI STI praya but as the external energy she helps in creation maintenance and destruction srishti creation maintenance destruction sh she is the only energy of the Lord the

18:07 external energy The Fortress the Jailer of this material world and it is because of her everything happens but is she independent does she do all of this independently the Brahma samita says no an sa means she like in English s h e she is s a sa in Sanskrit so ITA means desire an anurup means to follow so she follows the desire of whom Yesa that Yesa means

18:55 Krishna acting so she so she acts according to his desire it anur and Brahma explains who is that Yesa who is that person goind it's Krishna now these are shastric proofs it's not made up this verse was chanted by Brahma who with his four heads has four intelligence and through his four mouths chant the four vas s and yaj so he knows everything in out up down front and back he knows everything crystal clear and he's

19:41 saying he's not saying oh Dura oh she doesn't do anything well he says she is single-handedly the external energy EA she takes care of creation maintenance and destruction but let me tell you it's not done says ITA she goes according to somebody's desirea Anam she acts follows yes Krishna she acts according or in line or following the desire of Krishna to that Krishna I bow down lord Brahma says so very interesting we spoke about Ganesha we spoke about Durga and it goes on Su Swami in shrimat bhagwatam Kanto

20:30 12 chapter 13 text 1 the last chapter of the shrimat bhagwatam the conclusion he says yam brah such a big worse I'll split it up he says yam Brahma varuna Indra rudra marut different names of demigods these five demigods and Etc Brahma Indra rudra who

21:16 Shiva maruta varuna in charge of wind in charge of water in charge of demigods in charge of Creation in charge of Destruction he's talking about five big personal is Brahma Indra rudra marut varuna Brahma varuna Indra rudra maruta five Personalities in charge of water in charge of wind in charge of um creation maintenance destruction and the Lord of all demigods Indra what do these personalities do su go Swami he says they glorify with transcendental

22:03 poetry there's a difference between St and stra subtle technical difference sometimes we find so and this is called um Munda mala stra stotra means poetry or glorification but Rupa Swami's work is called stava Mala or ragun Das go Swami's work is called stali what is the difference between staa and stra both come from the root word St but stotra is repeating the conclusions of the previous aaras while staa is the natural spontaneous outpouring heartfelt

22:51 effusions from the heart of the achara so he's he's not planning to write it he just sits down and it's just pouring and he starts writing it that so these personalities what do they do on the spot with transcendental poetry they go on glorifying Krishna stti and what do they use as support V using Vedas s Ang with all the other cor corollaries using the upanishads G they keep singing Su go Swami says all these demigods with vas with upanishads with puranas with all these different um literatures and

23:38 sources and references they go on glorifying Krishna spontaneously in a transcendental Manner and means singing what else sings krishna's Glory yam s Seda every verse of Seda sings krishna's Glory and Seda is considered to be higher than the other Vedas because Krishna says v s Among The Vedas I am Seda and Seda every wor sings krishna's Glory not just that then he continues Su

24:25 Swami yogis who meditate for a million lifetimes one pointed contemplative meditation in the hearts of their hearts whom do they see they see the Lord of this universe that is Krishna and then Su Swami says yes and this personality whether he has a beginning or an end whether the demigods or the demons or the kinaras or the Kim purusas or the yakas or the siddhas or the chanas or the vidyadharas all different types of species and personalities no one knows the beginning middle and end of this personality therefore he is the

25:11 greatest this is Ultimate glorification in the last chapter of shrimat bhagwatam shrimat bhagwatam has over 350 chapters and in the last chapter is the conclusion and Su go Swami is giving Jewels through poetry and he is saying to that personality I bow down so Su Swami he says Krishna is God Dura is connected to Krishna following the instructions of Krishna Lord Ganesha keeps the Lotus feet of Krishna on his elephant head to do his service what else let's move on Indra Kanto 10 chapter 25 text 5 Goan

25:57 Lea sh he says it's a very beautiful verse definitely one of my favorites in the sh Indra here is actually criticizing Krishna he says oh this boy is too talkative watcham he he's over talkative small boy and he's telling his father what to do what not to do too much this is Goan Leela so he's Krishna speaks philosophy and tells nand Baba well don't worship him he has to give rain you don't have to bribe him you do

26:45 your duty he will he has to do his duty it rains on the fields they don't do a yya it rains on the mountains they don't do a yya but you're doing a yya for him and he's giving you the same that he he's giving them no no no he he has to do his duty you don't have to give him all this so indra's false ego is just getting crushed so he says oh this boy is talkative bisham he's childish very childish 7 years old too childish he he has some problem he's not nourishing here get is very immature oh he's so arrogant I tell you this

27:31 Krishna this boy is so arrogant talkative balish childish Stam arrogant adya foolish and still P Manina he still considers himself to be a Pandit now this is what Indra said out of false ego and pride but the aaras explain that godess sarasti didn't have have the audacity to carry this as it is to Krishna now imagine if somebody is burned something while cooking and the waiter has to take it he has to take it to the to the person who's going to eat it and the person sees this hey who made all this

28:18 go away what if he just hits the plate and the waiter has to face the anger not the cook so goddess sarasti who's the Goddess of learning and the goddess of speech she didn't have the audacity to carry these words as it is so she put it she flipped it and presented to Krishna as glorification so Indra is actually glorifying she comes to Krishna and says actually Indra is glorifying youal oh there's nobody who can speak like you Indra said walam means he's talkative but sarasti said oh Krishna there can be nobody who can speak like you at the age of seven you speak so much oh so Wonder wonderful you explain so nicely walam bisham Indra said

29:04 childish goddess sarasti said childlike oh Krishna you the Supreme personality of godhead but simply to give pleasure to the hearts of all the uh residence of brindhavan you're appearing as a child Stam Indra said you're arrogant therefore you don't bow down before anybody oh Krishna but the reality Stam means you don't have to bow down before anybody because you the Supreme personality of godhead stop AA Indra said adya means foolish ignorant but godess sarasti translated adya as follow she said means knowledge and means he who has no knowledge

29:50 actually but sarasti said uh means no need of knowledge you don't have to cultivate knowledge because because knowledge originates in you she also said there is nothing that you don't know you're all cognizant you know everything omniscient and Pand Manina Indra said still considers himself to be a Pandit but sarasti said oh my lordish these are the conclusions of the great pundits they say there's nobody who can talk like you because Krishna would speak the gaita in the future in 48 straight minutes he would speak 700 verses so watch Alam nobody can speak

30:35 like Krishna bisham who can perform childlike pastimes nand shuk go Swami is asked by parikhit Maharaj unbelievable childlike times Krishna is drinking milk of mother yeshoda oh God who has everything he's drinking the milk of mother yesoda what have nand and Yoda done childlike pastimes Stam Krishna doesn't have to bow down before anybody Indra will bow down to Krishna Brahma bows down to Krishna Krishna doesn't have to bow down because he's the source of

31:21 everything and everything comes from him everything comes from Krishna a he knows everything there's nothing that he doesn't know there's nothing outside of him everything is inside Krishna is the source of everything so we find how Indra is also indirectly glorifying Krishna and even Saraswati godess sarasti who is the embodiment of learning she's the epitome she's the origin of everything knowledge material knowledge but she also understands that well the words have to be flipped because Krishna is the of everything Krishna is called utoka because he is glorified with choicest poetry

32:07 UT so in this way so many references we spoke about um dur we spoke about Ganesha we spoke about Su Goos Swami we spoke about Indra now let's continue let's go to Arjuna now Arjuna in chapter 10 bhagat Gita text 12 and 1 he says he says who are you oh Krishna param Brahma you are the topmost personality D you're the ultimate that anybody can approach you the purest Purity begins

32:55 from you it originates from you par ban you are the topmost puram you're a personality God is not light God is Not impersonal that is one of his aspects and features but Arjuna says puram Krishna is a purusha he's a person with a personality and shashwatam he's Eternal he faces no birth and no death therefore Krishna appears and disappear appears the example is like the Sun appears disappears Rises sets the sun is never born and the Sun never dies so shashwatam Krishna is eternal

33:41 and divam he doesn't have a body like this skin blood bones mucus no completely transcendental sat chit an he's the origin of all the demigods aam without birth vium greatest so many adjectives and you might think well this also means this and this also means this and why is Arjuna putting so many adjectives together which mean the same it's because for emphasis because he knows people in kug are dull-headed

34:28 people in kug are slow lazy less intelligent and most importantly always restless so such a for people in Kaluga it's very difficult to understand is Krishna really greatest is he transcendental is he Eternal so Arjuna puts all the adjectives properly in the right Rhythm Brahma bo bo please please understand wonderful and then he says he says not just this it's not just my conclusion but great personalities like aita dea Vasa n they also have the

35:16 same conclusion and you yourself are telling me this so this is the fact Arjuna says so you find Arjuna is listening to the Gita and he is really very very smart he's very intelligent very powerful very skilled and Arjuna is putting his conclusion and he's also supporting with some recommendation letters he's putting a says these are their conclusions too so this is in proper line and shuk go Swami let's talk about him now shuk G Swami in the shat bhagavatam Kanto 1 chter 3 text 28 he describes different incarnations and different personalities and then finally

36:02 he tells parik maharajan he says these are different incarnations and plary portions and portions of the portions and expansions and so many other aspects but he says please understand the root of all of this the source of all that exists is Krishna so the line that we must remember is krishnu bhagavan swam Krishna is the Supreme personality of Got It shuk Go Swami says 1328 and shv goswami is he who speaking 18,000 verses of the

36:48 bhagam completely transcendental great personality shat BH Mah it is composed by the great it it is sung by the great and those who hear also become great so shuk goswami is a great personality and his father is vasad who compiles the shrimat bhagwatam but vasad dev's Guru is Narada who inspires the shrimat bhagwatam and what does Narada say can 4 chter 31 TT 14 bhagavatam says that Narada spoke to the pretas the sons of pra barish

37:36 that that this whole structure of different controllers they're all like different leaves and twigs and branches and stem and trunk Etc but the root is the most important he says what is important in a tree if you have to water a tree would you water the leaf would you water the fruit would you water the flour would you water the stem would you water the trunk would you water the branches would you water the sub branches you may or may not but mainly you would water the roots and second example Narada says your H your eyes will see your ears will hear your tongue will taste your hands

38:22 can touch your legs will walk but when you're hungry when the senses go weak where do you feed food where do you put the food you put it into the stomach if I write a 3-hour exam and my fingers are hurting and I say I'm really very very hungry and my my fingers are really tired let me keep a chapati on my hand the fingers are really tired let them eat the chapati what's going to happen it's not going to survive even if the hands do the work the legs do the walking the eyes do the seeing and the tongue does the talking still the food goes to the stomach because that's the source that enlivens all the senses and in the first example it's the root which enlivens all the

39:08 different parts of the tree interestingly Narada tells the pretas this root in the first example and this stomach in the second example is Krishna and different parts of the tree in the first example and different senses in the second example are the demigods means worship auta means the infallible Krishna chuta means he who can fall from his position chuta the demigods are called as chutas because they can fall from their position and H means negation so auta is the name of Krishna because

39:53 he never Falls from his position he's infallible he tells the pretas that just like you just like watering the root of the tree and satisfying all the parts of the tree and just like offering food to the stomach and enlivening all the senses in the body and the mind similarly worshiping Krishna satisfies completely all the different personalities you don't even have to look oh if I worship Krishna would ktia be satisfied would Ganesha be satisfied would Dura be satisfied you don't even have to

40:41 worry everybody is satisfied simply by worshiping Krishna Kanto 11 chter 5 text 41 shrimat bhagwatam another reference that comes to my head that also says the same thing they by worshiping mukunda Shri Krishna you satisfy everybody your for fathers people in general rulers the ri the

41:28 demigods ning by serving Krishna you don't have to individually be their servants and nor are you in debt otherwise we are all in debt because we take some sunlight from the sun we take some rain from Indra we take some fire from Agni we take some water from varuna we take something from someone we take Knowledge from Saras we take wealth from KU we take ability from somebody else and then we perform our activity so we take things from them and do our sense gratification so we have to repay back we have to repay if you get into a mall and you start putting everything into your trolley and you think of

42:15 walking out without paying you know what happens you know better I don't have to speak about it so similarly taking all these different Commodities from the small is symbolic to being or taking all these different helps and abilities from the demigods but now if you pay at the cash counter you don't have to individually pay at all the aisles you take it but then at the cash counter there's one cashier you just show your credit card or your debit card or your cash and then by satisfying him you would satisfy all the Isles so similarly by worshiping Krishna who is the root in the first example who is the

43:00 stomach in the second example who is the cashier in the third example we satisfy Everything and Everyone by worshiping he who can give us Liberation Munda Krishna gives us MTI therefore he's called mukunda The Giver of Liberation by worshiping Krishna we can easily satisfy pacify and serve naturally all the Deming Gods if you have a recommendation letter from the from the boss of the company you don't need the signature of the local managers but if you go for that route oh then it's difficult because you have to go to this person and then he'll sign

43:46 and he'll say oh my authority is that guy then you have to go there and then he signs it and then he'll say oh but I'm just the local Authority now you have to go to the person who is managing this state and it goes to him and then he signs it then he says oh but this has to go to that guy and by the time you get your work done you're tired but now if you get a direct recommendation letter from the owner of The Company You Escape all this so Krishna is the root of everything by selflessly giving yourself in his service you satisfy everyone you're not in debt and not nor are you a direct servant of anyone you are the servant of the owner of the company so actual ego means I am not a

44:35 mere model I am actually eternally the servant of the greatest personality do you know who my boss is he's the greatest person he's the richest he's the most beautiful he's the strongest he's the famous uh the most famous and and he has all he's he has all these opulences he's most renounced and all all these opulences that you are hankering and that attracts you all of that comes from him so I am his personal secretary oh really you're such a great person yeah yeah yeah am that's true ego but when this gets reflected to oh I am that person instead of saying I am the Secretary of that person you say oh

45:20 that person doesn't exist well I am that person that's not true ego but that's false ego so ego is not bad true ego means I am Krishna Das Krishna Das says if you have this strong conviction that you're krishna's servant and you're fixed in that position then you have no more suffering because you're linked to the most influential person in the whole of creation and you have a unique flavor of relationship with that person that makes you so special that makes us so special but no we don't want to accept that we want to accept temporary designations based on

46:07 this body which is going to last 50 60 70 80 Max 90 years and it's going to grow old and diseased and wrinkles and white hair and broken teeth and Walkers and stick and we still so proud so we must understand who our real master is and connect back to him that relationship that that sandha once it's established we'll be so happy we suffer because we have turned away from Krishna describes that we are suffering in this world because we have

46:52 turned away from Krishna Krishna is here and we have turned away when you look that side and Krishna is here that's why we are suffering Krishna is light so when you turn away from light you are in darkness and when you're in darkness you don't see anything and you step over broken pieces of glass and that pricks you and you start crying that's what happens in this world we turning away from Krishna we turning away from knowledge we are acting in ignorance we don't see things as they are and therefore we suffer and we cry so the source of all suffering is turning away from Krishna and we turn away from Krishna because we don't know that he's the Supreme personality so we find how different

47:37 personalities Narada spoke this shuk go Swami spoke this Su go Swami spoke this Arjuna spoke this Indra said the same thing Dura says the same thing Lord Ganesha says the same thing and udhava shat bhagwatam can to three chapter 2 text uh 21 3-21 um he says he says oh Krishna is so great that all the demigods are waiting in lines and they all bowing down to Krishna at the same time and their helmets are all clanging onto the

48:22 ground K Crowes and cres billions and billions of demigods are bowing down at the same time they're wearing helmets and they're bowing down at the same time and the helmet is hitting the ground and the same clanging sound is heard they're bowing down to krishna's Lotus feet who is Krishna udhava says this Krishna he is Aya he is unequal and aaya and there's nobody greater also Nobody Greater nobody equal and he's the lord of the trees what are the threes anything that's three Krishna is the Lord of them like Krishna is the

49:09 Lord of goodness passion ignorance Krishna is the Lord of past present and future Krishna is the Lord of Brahma Vishnu and Shiva Krishna is the Lord ofir vishnay Vish Vish Krishna is the lord of the three worlds Krishna is the Lord of David Dam which is Material World Mahesh Dam which is skas and golok Dam Gol bavan so three so anything that is three Krishna is three he's the Lord of everything that's three like that so the p and therefore the demigods bow down and their crown and their helmets

49:55 clangs onto the it hits the ground and there's a clanging sound at the same time billions and billions of demigods this is quoted in the chaan also in the madya Lea to show that Krishna is worthy of all worship and this is also quoted by ragos Swami in Baku Rupa Swami says that Krishna is all honorable he says Krishna has 64 qualities on of of which quality number 49 is all honorable Rupa Swami says the doorkeepers of Krishna in dwaraka have a busy life Krishna is the king of dwara and his doorkeepers have a very busy

50:42 life and one day it became so busy that a doorkeeper had to say oh Shiva please stand in the line oh Brahma please don't talk loudly oh Indra Krishna has no time for you you today please go varuna please bow down and maruta please sit please be patient rup Swami quotesu and prad writes very beautifully in NE of devotion he says that's the position of Krishna the doorkeepers in dwaraka have a tough time because all these demigods are coming down to bow down to Krishna and the de and the doorkeepers have to say wait wait wait wait now he goes in first wait you wait please be patient don't chant your prayers loudly Krishna can hear you you

51:29 please sit oh you there's no appointment please come tomorrow they are the greatest managers Krishna appoints the greatest managers the from the biggest management schools the Harvard Business School or the MIT school or Chicago Booth School whichever the big business school all the management um um intellectuals they're all fighting for jobs in this world but managing um the guests being a doorkeeper in dwara oh it's a very demanding job very very demanding Rupa go Swami says it's a tough task because so many people want to come and meet Krishna because Krishna is all

52:16 honorable so in this way we covered Lord Ganesha we covered Durga we covered Indra we covered Arjuna we covered Su Goos Swami we covered shuk go Swami we covered Narada we covered udhava and we covered Rupa go Swami and finally after all these names in the last 10 minutes that we have as I promised we'll go to the big three names we'll go to Brahma we'll take Shiva then we'll come to Krishna what does Brahma as the creator of everything say Brahma is considered to be the secondary Creator the primary cause of Krishna so Brahma who who creates everything and who was imparted the knowledge of

53:03 Creation in his heart to that Brahma whom everything is known that Brahma in the Brahma samita constantly goes on saying goind therefore prad made it a practice that every morning during Dy greetings we chant [Music] this but what does this mean who has said it Brahma has said it for whom for Krishna but what does this statement mean goind is krishna's

53:50 name and how is he auram oh the source the original personality there are so many purusas but he's ADI purusha he's he's the first rank he's the a grade right he has the A+ grade throughout he's the ADI purusha the first and therefore aami I worship and bow down to such a personality goes on repeatedly every verse [Music] goes on that I worship that goind I worship that Govinda who's the Prime

54:36 Evil Lord I worship that Govinda who's the Prime Evil Lord and he starts the Brahma samita by saying is krishn isar means controller we could say we are also iswas in our insignificant infinitesimal as aspect or quantity ishwara we control something and someone and somehow ishwara parama means topmost so iswara controller paraha topmost who is the topmost controller of all controllers Krishna that's the first line of Brahma Sam Isa

55:26 and what type of form does he have vraa sat chit Ananda it's Eternal therefore he never dies never grows old never gets diseased never has to enter a womb and suffer for 9 months chit full of knowledge which means he never makes mistakes we make mistake because of ignorance full in knowledge he he's all cognizant he knows what to speak where to speak how to speak when to speak to whom to speak and Ananda he's the reservoir of all happiness Akil he's the origin he's the ocean of unlimited inconceivable happiness

56:14 imagine if you can live forever and you have full knowledge in the head and you have full happiness in the heart you should be the happiest person the best position to be in yes that's Krishna and because we are his servants that's also our position we are chit we are cognizant of krishna's position our position and the relationship we are Eternal we never die as Spirit souls and we are happy performing service Ananda but the problem is when we go away from Krishna and we try to live forcefully we try to live in this body oh the body is there's birth and there's

57:00 death and that's not common for the soul so they're suffering oh I want to live forever no the body collapses and you have to leave imagine if you keep changing Apartments because the roof comes down again and again you're miserable you want a place where you can live comfortably then you're happy but for the soul sometimes 30 years sometimes 40 years sometimes 60 years now that's a shame in comparison to Eternity what's 30 years I've heard sometimes even devotees they say oh 30 years ago I was like this time flies what's 30 years in comparison to Eternity so sat chit and

57:48 Ananda because of forcefully trying to live in this body we are not Eternal because we consider we are the bodies and the body is temporary and the body is a network of Illusion therefore we make mistakes and therefore we suffer and no Ananda because this material world is a place of suffering welcome boom boom boom three crosses and we still want to make this world a better place there's a very beautiful saying that when I was intelligent I thought of changing the world but then I became wise and clever and I thought of changing myself so the problem of all suffering is not things around us it's our

58:36 Consciousness that's completely locked up when you turn to Krishna and we perform bti it loosens up and the chitta becomes straight Consciousness becomes soft and clear and on that un um rippled layer of Consciousness we can be happy at the moment it's agitated and provoked and irritated and restless and constantly moving and how can we be happy but when we return to our original nature and serve Krishna the Consciousness becomes plain and unperturbed we become happy so Brahma he says isar Krishna Krishna is the source of everything and therefore he's the greatest controller and

59:24 anadi goind he is beginningless and he is the origin and he's the source and the cause of everything that exists this is coming from the words of the Creator that's what Brahma has to say now let's go to what Shiva has to say l Shiva in the Padma puran he says Arad he says oh goddess Parvati out of all types of worship of all types of honor of all types of Puja and

1:00:09 aradhana process of worship the worship of Sri Krishna or Vishnu is the topmost Vishnu aradam the worship of Krishna or Vishnu is the topmost of the worship of all the different personalities and different processes and different paths well goddess worshiping Vishnu or Krishna is the highest because they are the Supreme and Vishnu and Krishna non different so it's not that they are the Supreme it's he's the Supreme and this is what L Shiva has to say and now after all these references let's go to Krishna let's go and ask him hey Krishna Ganesha Dura Indra Arjuna SU go

1:00:56 Swami shuk go Swami nari udhava Rupa go Swami Brahma and Shiva they say that you are God what do you have to say just like sometimes these reporters go to different politicians and they say well he said this about you what do you have to say what do you think presidential elections what do you think what's going to happen who's going to be the president do you have it in you so when you ask Krishna that they're all saying it's you they pointing finger that you are the Supreme what do you have to say Krishna doesn't say oh actually you know I'm I'm not qualified you know I'm I'm not worthy they are all so humble I'm oh Krishna doesn't say

1:01:42 that Krishna says chapter 7 text 7 bhagat Gita Krishna says oh Arjuna please understand there is no truth greater than me Point Blank straight then he says that my position is like that of the thread in a necklace what supports the beads of a necklace the thread but what's seen the necklace what is not seen the thread he says it's because of me that the glitter and the glamour is seen the

1:02:28 pearls of the necklace of this world are seen because they're resting on the thread and people like that but they don't see the underlining threat that's me I'm the one who's keeping everything going but I'm invisible queenti says K 1 chapter 8 so in this way Krishna says there's no truth greater to me and he goes on he says I am the taste in water I am the light of the Sun and the Moon I am the syllable om of all the Vic syllables sh I am the sound and

1:03:13 ether I am the ability in man I am the fragrance of Earth I am the life of everything that exists I am the Penance of those who perform Penance I am the seed of everything oh Arjuna please understand that I am the intelligence of the intelligent I am the E of the eent I'm the strength of the strong and then in the same chapter text 14

1:03:58 Krishna says this material world is very difficult to overcome and it's my energy therefore Krishna says to cross over this material world of Illusion you have to surrender to me so this is not the words of somebody who is very puffed up oh you you need to surrender to me no Krishna is actually giving his helping hand he says please come back it's not the surrender of um helpless submission oh I Surrender the police comes and says hands up oh I Surrender not like that the devotees also rais their hand but

1:04:44 it's not in fear but it's in love we surrender to Krishna lovingly the child Embraces the father lovingly but If the child is told go embrace your father and he says okay and then he goes and embrace the father there's no no mellow in that no sweetness so out of force you will never have sweetness loving relationships and sweetness is found by natural dependence it's it has to be heartfelt it has to be surrendering our minute Independence and depending on Krishna I remember on one 15th August uh discussion which is the

1:05:29 Independence Day of India um we spoke about what real Independence means it's not about a country being independent of the rule of another country but real Independence means being independent of our false ego and willingly depending on Krishna independent means our relation is independent depence our actual happiness is in dependence towards Krishna to Krishna so therefore only by surrendering to Krishna because he's the source can we overcome the material energy and Krishna is des he he describes two chapters before chapter 5

1:06:16 text 29 he says that everything right from an atom to the big Cosmic manifestation it belongs to Krishna he is the source of it but is he somebody who's very proud of his position and he doesn't interact with us because we possess nothing and he possesses so much no the next line says Krishna is the dear ever well-wishing friend of all living entities whether it's an ant whether it's a mosquito whether it's a human being or whether it's Lord Brahma Krishna possesses everything but

1:07:02 he's so dear and so loving and so kind so well-wishing what's the use of somebody who's very rich very famous very intelligent and very strong but he's not very kind it repels if you have somebody who's very intelligent but is not very kind Ah that's a big put off but if there's somebody who's very intelligent or very rich or very strong or very famous or all of them together and super kind and helpful that attracts more than any of these qualities the Chan describes mad bhatar the essence of godhead is sweetness and that is seen in Krishna

1:07:58 chapter 9 text 18 GTI Krishna is the destination he's the sustainer G pru he's the master saki he's the witness as the Super Soul NASA shanam he's the resting place or he's the ultimate aboard of shelter surit he's our ever well wishing friend PR he's the source beam he's the seed of creation maintenance and destruction and ofam indestructible and doesn't change this is krishna's position very very

1:08:44 exalted and therefore Krishna says in chapter 10 now chapter 10 text8 Krishna says everything comes from me the wise who understand that everything animate and inanimate comes from me they worship me with all their hearts and chapter 18 and chapter n you will find krishna's talking about how to establish that relationship with him through surrender think of me become my devote worship me and offer obeisances unto me and in this way you'll surely come to me is giving us the path now we could have a question wait a minute why is Krishna

1:09:31 talking so much about himself is Krishna proud why is he saying so much that I am this I am that Among The Vedas I am Seda among the letters I am a why the answer is simple you go into a company and you go and ask the the clerk are you the wi president he would say no I'm the clerk then you would go to the general manager are you the vice president said no I am the general manager then goes to the CEO or he goes to somebody else are you the vice president or are you the president or are you the owner individually going is very difficult but here is the Vice President coming down and giving his

1:10:17 visiting card said I'm the vice president or I the president nice to meet you this is my visiting card now if you say oh he's so proud he's saying that he's the president well you wanted to know who's the president you wanted to know who's the vice president or the president and you went around asking everybody and here is a person coming himself on his own accord and telling you that well I am the vice president I thought you were searching for me and then you say oh you're so proud so we have so much of hypocrisy and double standards so we are searching for God and here is God coming and repeatedly telling us so that we don't go around searching the scriptures are considered to be like the mother and Krishna is the father now if

1:11:06 you go around asking the whole city who your father is that's a bad state to be in but if you go and ask your mother and the mother says this person and then you know that's your father so similarly instead of going around asking are you God are you God are you God are you God well just look at the scripture and the scriptures all Point towards one person and that person says yes I'm your father oh you're so proud so Krishna is saying this for our benefit so that we understand that he is God and that I am part of him part and parcel therefore my relationship is with him imagine if there are trillion possibilities like okay

1:11:53 let's let's take it like this imagine if you you have trillion different doors and you have to try which is the the right one if you open the wrong do assuming you fall down of a cliff so you have a trillion doors what is the probability that you will get it right but if there on one of the doors it said real door and you open it and that's the real door and if then you complain oh this door is so puffed up it's a is real door imagine it's for our benefit if we go around thinking is Chandra the moon God is he the actual God no no I think the sun is the actual God no no I think

1:12:38 it's the rain no no I think it's the fire no no I think it's the water no no I think it's the wind we'll go crazy but here is Krishna coming and saying wait you searching for me come come to me he's standing as jagat like this it's as good as saying come back to me give me a hug so God is waiting for us to turn back to him as soon as we turn back to him we are satisfied that's our position shaki prash we belong to Krishna and by getting back to Krishna in a loving relationship we'll find happiness so in this way time and again this question is asked through social

1:13:25 media through emails through messages through calls um so I just thought we can put up this uh small presentation so that whenever we have this doubt Whenever there is a haunting doubt kick it out and re and see this uh discussion and if it helps then uh we'll be very very happy and very grateful last but not the least we find apart from demigods and the Supreme Lord SRI Krishna himself we find even great aaras like ramanu aara Madara Vishnu Swami Nimar aara and even ADI Shankar aara ADI Shankar aachara in his last

1:14:10 work he says bind M Mur means fool oh fool or foolish mind he says three times baj goind baj goind baj goind goind Baja Baja means worship and goind is Krishna worship Krishna worship Krishna worship Krishna oh foolish mind so it's it's very conclusive all the puranas all the upanishads all the Vic sources bhagat Gita bhagwatam and U nect of devotion and all these different sources we find and references even the iasas arakas

1:14:57 samitas um they all Point towards the same direction so it's high time that we follow the signals right and not get confused um we we should we are in a we are in a dense Dark Forest and all the different signs are indicated only how to get out of this Forest so let us follow these signs of the Vic uh references and injunctions no Krishna in truth and those who know Krishna in truth Krishna promises in the fourth chapter Krishna says those who understand me in truth such personalities never take a

1:15:45 rebirth they come back to me m so in this way let us attempt to read the scripture very scrutinizingly let's read prad's books um very obediently very scrutinizingly as our daily schedule let us hear the messages of Krishna from the bhagat Gita the messages of aaras and the Past Times of Krishna from the bhagwatam let us chant the Holy Name let us serve the vaishnavas and in this mood of connection with the Supreme personality of goded Sri Krishna let us make the best use of this bad bargain of this material form so my prostrated obediences to all the viewers and all the devotees who uh may be watching this

1:16:33 I pray that may you kindly bless me so that I continue serving you and all other devotees in the spirit of being a humble servant