“ bhutesu chavateswarum pravistanya pravistani tatha tesu natesvyahum”

As the material elements enter the bodies of all living beings and yet remain outside of the world. I exist within all material creations and yet I’m not within them.
Purport by Srila Prabhupada : The gross material elements earth, water, fire air and ether combine with the subtle material elements mind, intelligence and false ego. To construct the bodies of this material world and yet they are beyond these bodies as well. Any material construction is nothing but an amalgamation or combination of material elements in various proportions. These elements exist both within and beyond the body. For example., although the sky exists in space it also enters within the body. Similarly the Supreme Lord who is the cause of the material energy lives within the material world as well as beyond it. Without His presence within the material world the cosmic body could not develop. Just as without the presence of, the spirit within the physical body, the body could not develop. The entire material manifestation develops and exists because the Supreme Personality of Godhead enters it as Paramatma or the Supersoul. The Personality of Godhead in His all pervading feature of Paramatma enters every entity from the biggest to the most minute.
 
How Lord Sri Krishna… is existing both within and without of everything that exists, is here explained. Krishna says in the Gita for one who sees me everywhere and and everything in Me, for him I am never lost nor he is ever lost to me. ‘Ananto aniyan Mahato mahiyan’ Krishna is the larger than the largest but He is also smaller than the smallest. He is larger than the largest, in the sense we can understand that Maha Vishnu who is an expansion of an expansion of Sri Krishna…. First there is Sri Krishna, He expands Himself as Baladev who expands Himself as the Catur vyuha. The primary Catur vyuha, they expand themselves as Aniruddha, Sankarsan, Pradyumna Vasudev. Catur vyuha expands as as Narayan, and from Narayan comes the secondary quadruple expansion of the Lord and from then…the, when it is time for the creation of this material energy or not material energy but the material existence then the expansion of Krishna expands again into Karnodaksyi Vishnu who is Maha Vishnu..,Maha means bigger than the biggest.
 
He is so great that although when we see something big in this world we think…. It’s very wonderful. Anything that is big according to its relative.....a….specie or according to its relative …em… relationships with its own kind in this world is considered very great. It is like where as the, the hope diamond is perhaps the largest diamond in the world… and millions of people go to the museum to see this large diamond. Similarly if a zoo has the largest tiger or the largest elephant it becomes very famous because it has the largest of its kind and… if somebody is very big or very tall or very strong that is, that person becomes very well known.. Of all mountains in the world to day what is the most famous mountain, it is Mount Everest, and why because it is the biggest mountain and of all buildings what is the most famous building. for so many years it’s Emperor’s Estate…building because that is most famous building on earth because it is the biggest building. Now most famous building is the -----building because it is bigger. So in this way people are very much attached to something big something great in size. It is like at Govardhan Puja when we were seeing so many mountains of prasad, the bigger there were the more all reverence everyone have for them..a.. So this is the natural opulence that attracts the heart…sometimes very big and within this creation a person has a big reputation or he has a big bank balance he becomes very famous. So Krishna says ‘Mahato mahiyan ‘ I’m bigger than the biggest and is Maha Vishnu is giving evidence how He is bigger than the biggest within this planet of something is big like Mount Everest…a… such a very great thing. People from all over the world were coming to.. Try to climb to be the first, to climb Mount Everest, but, what are they going to gain by climbing Mount Everest. There is end nothing up there but, ice same ice that’s…. in your freezer…., why they are risking their lives In going through months and months of training and months and months just get up there to see some ice because it is big because they have done something so big, they became famous, in all the history books. The first man who climbed Mount Everest .And this is one little mountain, one little country, one little planet. You look at the map of… of India , Mount Everest is not very big , if you look at the map of the world Mount Everest is not very big . How big, we consider so big but just see how Krishna is He is bigger than the biggest. That is whole earth is just a speck within this universe and this whole universe is so insignificant that Maha Vishnu while he is resting big man, is somebody who doesn’t really have to work so hard to get things done…right. Small man has to struggle and toil just to get any little thing done…ahh.. So we, we acknowledge somebody being very big if he could by His without really putting much energy he could get great things done. So Krishna has a great sense of humor [ Maharaj says this last sentence laughing] He want to just completely eclipse everyone’s greatness by His own.
 
He consider yourself a great man you can get some big things done without working so hard just see what I’m going to do I’ll go to sleep and see what happens, when I go to sleep [ Devotee crowd laughs along with Maharaj] He falls in to Yoga nidra He’s sound asleep, His eyes are closed and when He exhales from the pores of His body comes billions quadrillions of universes. These universes are just are coming out of pores of His body by the trillions by the quadrillions and in innumerable countless universes and within each universe so many planets so many living entities everything…, how He’s creating therefore He is ‘Mahato Mahiyan’.. He is bigger than the biggest….’ Ananto aniyan’ to be very small is also a great great opulence. The Japanese are very famous because they can take something and make it very small. They are the most, they are the most powerful economic country in the world perhaps now why?? Because they because they can take up things that man has made that are, take up so much size and could get the same function done through that in a very small size… If you see something very tiny, little, tiny computer or little tiny tape recorder, they could perform all the work.. my God… that’s great… of course try to understand the necessity but it is about 15 million people living in the city of Tokyo and every body living lives in a room half the size of… just actually by their conditioning……they………make things very small. [Maharaj laughs] its actually A miserable existence; that force them to…em…take shelter of making everything very small, but still, they are practically controlling the economy of the world, one little ..tiny country… Japan is just a little tiny sea stream . country…but because they learned how to do great things in small sizes…they are great….but how great???that same Maha Vishnu, who is of such an immense size that all universes are coming out of His body. By His glance… He impregnates all living beings within, the universe. Each one, it explains that He expands Heim self as Garbhodaksyi Vishnu, from His naval sprouts a lotus flower and on that lotus flower Lord Brahma is born… Lord Brahma hears the word tapa, performs tapasya.. He performs tapasya, through His tapasya He is given the vision of spiritual world and He is given the empowerment by Garbhodaksyi Vishnu how to create all the planets and all the living species of life, 8 million 400 thousand and then the same Maha Vishnu that is so great, He enters….as the Paramatma the Supersoul in the heart of every living being. That is smaller than the smallest. It is said in the Bhagavatam that the, that the…a….the Paramatma in the heart is the size of the upper portion of the thumb…Now… What is the size of the upper portion of a thumb of a mosquito.,aa..?? That’s how big He is in the heart of a mosquito…., and yet although He is so incredibly tiny, is that, we are talking about Jap…Japanese manufacturers. When they made a , that can hold so much data but it is small size…very great!! 20 years ago if you want a computer in your office just, the, I don’t know what you call it the hardware or the software it, will be placed the size of this room. You remember, computer would be just, just the size of the room. But now you can have all that information, all that data stored in a computer of only the size of a desk and smaller considered great.
 
Ho great is Krishna as the Paramatma, how much data is in the Paramatma within your heart [Maharaj says these last three words in a laughing accent] in a minute tiny size… that Par and even in the heart of a mosquito even in the heart of a mat and an ant within that heart of that little being is the Paramatma, that knows everything that ant has ever done in all his previous lives,,, and not only everything all that ant has done., He knows every the little creature that, every little creature that ever has existed, in the spiritual and material worlds. He knows everything they’ve done, everything that they are doing every that they are going to do…. Can anyone, create any computer any size emm..?? That is Krishna. Mahato mahiyan Anato aniyan… He is bigger than the biggest and smaller than the smallest. And therefore He is considered.., this is how we understand God is great… so, in this way Krishna is manifesting Himself and the more we understand how Krishna manifests Himself, the more we understand how great is God. Srila Prabhupad would often tell us that in many religions it is said that God is great, but how is God great. The more we understand how great He is, the more we have great reverence, and the more we will love Him…And when Krishna comes to this material world He does not come, He, He appears like an ordinary man but then He performs the greatness of God, just to chow, the world how God is great. To attract the world to Him. and…. because our, because God is infinite and because our mind and intelligence is finite we cannot understand, we cannot conceive of the greatness of God. It is not possible. Krishna explains in the Bhagavad Gita in the 13th chapter, that I shall know explain the knowable knowing which you shall taste the eternal..
 
This is beginning less and it is subordinate to Me. It is called Brahman, the spirit and it lies beyond the cause and effect of the material world. Every where are His hands and legs, His eyes and faces and He hears everything… in this way the Supersoul exists…. Here in this Krishna is explaining how His transcendental eyes see everything everywhere, His transcendental hands can receive offerings anywhere and in any place. His ears hears everything every where. This is the glory of God. If the devotee whether he is sitting in a prison cell, whether he is in Vaikunta, wherever he is in…under…,at at the bottom of the ocean anywhere a devotee may be, if he offers Krishna something even a leaf or flower, food or water with devotion… Krishna accepts it. His hand is there to accept to, His mouth is there to taste it… He hears everything, He sees everything…. In this way the Supersoul exists. This is the greatness of God. The Supersoul is the original source of all senses…, yet He is without senses. He is unattached, although He is the maintainer of all living beings, He transcends the modes of nature and at the same time He is the master of all the modes of nature. The Supreme Truth exists both internally and externally in the moving and the non-moving. He is beyond the power of the material senses to see or to know although far far away He is also near to all. Although the Supersoul appears to be divided, He is undivided. He is situated as one although He is the maintainer of every living entity, it is to be understood that He devours and develops all. He is the source of light in all luminous objects. He is beyond the darkness of matter and is unmanifested. He is knowledge, He is the object of knowledge. He is goal of knowledge. He is situated in everyone’s heart…. And then, the secret to understand Krishna is given, what Krishna has just spoken here in Gita, who can understand it?? On a very superficial level; we can say Yes, I understand , but nobody can understand, how could Krishna be far away and yet near, how could He be both within and without, how could He be both knowable and unknowable.
 
Every possible contradiction siiimultaneously exists within the Absolute truth. Because the Absolute Truth is filled with every conceivable and inconceivable contradiction. He is bigger than the biggest, smaller than the smallest. He is the farthest away of anybody and yet He is the nearest. He is within He is without, He is knowable He is unknowable…He is and then Krishna goes on to say although I’m everything, I’m separate I’m not everything for Krishna to be everything that means He also has to be not everything…,,aa…,,can you understand that??? [Maharaj then questions one of the devotees in the class] Shymanand…aa…??? He is everything yet He is not everything…It’s a contradiction…but in the Absolute Truth there is infinite contradictions because in in the.. When we speak of infinite, we are speaking of beyond the finite realm of comprehension. This Zen [ 20.37 mnts] Buddhists to try to get your mind away from the temporary, conditioned way of seeing reality, they have these what they call cones. Just to try to completely disturb your mind in such a way that you just give up all hope and logic…, like they have they disciple sit there, this is a common example and meditate for weeks on what is the sound of one hand clapping [a devotee from the audience laughs for this] this, this is we are talking about a process, and the student until he can give… the proper answer to that he has to just sit in silence meditating only on, that, figuring out what is the sound of one hand clapping…and after weeks , sometimes months ,sometimes years for 18-20 hours a day, a person just sitting and with his back erect mediating of what is?? The what is the sound??
 
And ultimately what happens is that we say in the, in the west the minds just becomes blown they just explode and they realize that …, they don’t have any mind, anymore, they mind is totally…em…torn to pieces by trying to figure out what is inconceivable. And when they don’t have any mind anymore they they attain NIRVANA [followed by a loud laugh from Maharaj and the devotees]. Because after all, suffering is because you are attached to your mind and your mind is making so many discriminations between heat and clod, happiness and distress, pleasure and pain. all suffering due to the discriminatory nature of the mind.., choosing what we like choosing what we don’t like. So, this process is just to completely blow your mind to smithereens and then you don’t have have mind anymore, then you are enlightened. This is their idea of enlightenment. But in any case we understand that…through this example that the Absolute Truth is full of every type of contradiction and inconceivable potency…therefore He cannot be understood through scholarship, He Cannot be understood by studying the Vedanta, He cannot be understood through and amount of logic., And Sarwabowma bhattacarya with Gopinath acarya… Gopinath told then that you are a greatest logician in the world. I admit it, you are the greatest dramatical scholar in all the world, you are ..you are people from all over the the country even the greatest renunciates come to learn Vedanta from you,, but you’ll never understand Lord Chaitanya, because it is not through this process….and what is the process. Here Krishna is explaining in the 13th chapter of the Gita. His nature which is utterly inconceivable and contradictory…. And which is beyond the realm of the mind to understand but then He concludes this particular section of the Bhagva Gita with this verse. Thus the field of activities., the body., knowledge and the knowable have been summarily described by me only My devotees can understand this thoroughly and thus attain to my nature… The Sanskrit is ‘iti ksetrum tatha jnanum eyah coktam samasatah’ and quoting the Sanskrit because sometimes…aa…commentators of the Bhag.Gita… they…say when Krishna says devotees He means only My Jnani or only ..only one who is in knowledge but what did Krishna say…. He says ‘iti ksetrum tatha jnanum eyah coktam samasatah. This means this field of activities all that is knowable all that is unknowable that I have just described in summary…’ “mad bhakta etad vijnaya” ‘mad bhavayo prapadyate mad bhakta’….mad bhakta,,, My devotee, only My devotees can understand this thoroughly and thus attain My nature…. So to go on with Srila Prabhupada’s purport with this wonderful verse from Sri Chaitanya Caritamrita after Srila Prabhupad explains the greatness and the glory of Lord Sri Krishna, he explains how the Personality of Godhead in His all pervading feature of Paramatma enters every living entity from the biggest to most minute. His existence can be realized by one. This is important…..His existence can be realized by the one who has the single qualification …. I repeat this, His existence we are talking about the inconceivable, incomprehensible, and full of all contradictions, His existence can be realized by one who has the single qualification…I will repeat this. His existence we are taking about the inconceivable, incomprehensible, full of all contradictions his existence can be realized by the one who has the single qualification of submissiveness, and who there by becomes a surrendered soul.
 
The development of submissiveness is the cause of proportionate spiritual realization, Krishna reveals Himself to His devotees according to the…..intensity of that devotee’s submissiveness …alone In the 10th canto we read about the yogic Brahmins, they were learned, they were expert at the ritual at the sacrifice, they could not understand who is Krishna …they wives had no qualification except one, they were submissive…. Krishna wanted their food, they gave their food, the Brahmins had every other qualification except submissiveness and they were left out….the wives had no qualification except submissiveness and they were given entrance into the highest realizations…..the development of submissiveness is the cause of proportionate spiritual realization by which one can ultimately meet the Supreme Person… in person as a man meets another man face to face. Because of his development of transcendental attachment for the Lord. A surrendered soul feels the presence of the beloved everywhere and all His senses are engaged in the loving service of the Lord. And here it is beautifully Prabhupad is describing how a devotee experiences Krishna everywhere and in everything… I would like to ask you ,[ Maharaj addressing the devotees] How does a devotee, on a practical level experience Krishna everywhere and in everything??? Radha Gopinath?? [Radha Gopinath prabhujee answers]
 

by seeing that everything is …,[29.40 mnts] behind everything He is the one…. [Maharaj says].. That ., that is something theoretical [Gopinath prabhu smiles along with Maharaj] that’s a mental adjustment…, right .., at least at our stage. How to actually experience Krishna everywhere and in everything…I’ll give you a hint., let us quote Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati’s…. Don’t try to see Krishna but [Radha Gopinath prabhu ends the sentence] serve in the way that Krishna comes.[30.13 mnts] That is the answer. The devotee experiences Krishna’s everywhere and in everything because he is always engaging in Krishna’s service. And Prabhupad describes here how a devotee experiences always engages in Krishna’s services, All his senses are engaged and says because of his development of transcendental attachment for the Supreme lord, a surrendered soul feels the presence of his beloved everywhere and all his senses are engaged in the loving service of the Lord… his eyes are engaged in seeing the beautiful couple of Sri Radha and Krishna sitting on a decorated throne…, beneath the desire tree in the transcendental land of Vrindavan… Sri Sri Radha Gopinath ki jai.. His nose is engaged in smelling the spiritual aroma of the lotus feet of the Lord. Similarly his ears are engaged in hearing messages from Vaikunta and his hands embrace the lotus feet of the Lord and His associates…, thus the Lord is manifested to a pure devotee from within and without..
 
This is one of the mysteries of the devotional relationship in which a devotee and the Lord are bound by the tie if spontaneous love to achieve this love…., to be the goal of life for every living being. Krishna speaks in Gita…’bhaktya..bhaktya man abhi janah yavan yascami tattvatah’..it is only by devotional service that I can be understood as I am. Don’t try to see Krishna but try to serve Krishna in such a way that He will be inspired to reveal Himself to you. This is the great mystery of the school of bhakti….that, as we were explaining previously although the Lord is invisible., He is also , has the power to become visible., invisible meaning to the material senses.. Although the argument is… that, that which is finite cannot perceive the infinite. It’s not comprehensible, it is totally ill-logical the finite to be able to perceive the infinite. Is it not??? If you finite how can you experience what is infinite. Therefore. Of the finite is able to see the infinite that would make the finite infinite… this is these impersonalists school. This is their conclusion….to know God means to be..come God. But they cannot understand the path of grace, the path of bhakti which is, if the infinite does not have the power to make himself known to the finite, He is not infinite because it means that there is nothing that He cannot do…, and one of His great great opulence is He could reveal His infinite glory to finite ., to the jivatma,, and when dies He reveals His infinite glory tp, to the jivatma..’atah pumbir dvija srestha varnasrama vibhagasah svanusthitasya dharmansya samsiddhi hari tosanam’ when the living entity pleases Him. And what pleases Him to be the servant. to be the servant of the servant of the servants.. ‘madbhakta puju abhitah.. [34.57 mnts] one who pleases My devotee., pleases Me supremely., one who is a humble servant of my servant ,is the most dear to Me. So this is the real conclusion of understanding and going beyond all the contradictions., all, all the conflicting…em.. Truths within the Absolute Truth. It’s simply to become the humble servant of the servant of the servant… and through this process of being submissive surrendered Krishna reveals everything to the devotees.
Is there any question??? [Asks Maharaj to the audience}
 
 
[ a devotee answers] [Maharaj says Yes]…. Previously in the Brahma samhita it is said about Shankar , according to the will of Govinda ., Shankar[35.40 mnts] who maintains and foster the religion of pure devotion by preaching the cult of of illusionism or Mayavad., DSo isn’t ., it this preaching of Mayavad foster the cult of pure devotion?? [Maharaj interprets by saying.., ‘It do what’?][the devotee continues] it is sambhu who maintains and fosters the religion of pure devotion by practicing the cult of mayavad [ Maharaj says …em…] it is Sambhuva., the sate of Sambhuva ., Shankar., Shiva and He fosters pure devotion by preaching Mayavad so how is this???
 
 
[Maharaj laughs loudly and replies]
 

..aa.. It is like how., how am I trying to foster knowledge in RadhaGopinath by asking him difficult questions..aa..fostering means to gradually bring one to that ., it is like the foster father. To foster. to foster someone means to gradually bring tht person to the mature state. Everything God does is perfect. Krishna,Lord Narayan directly and personally sent Lord Shankar for the prupose., therefore representing this Mayavad philosophy…for several reasons,one,is that the people of the world…they were ….already convinced especially in the land of Bharatavarshya., they wre convinced by the Lord Buddha who is one the 10 primary avatars of Vishnu. To accept His teachings on which our of necessity He has to abandon the Vedas and basically taught a process of Ahimsa –self control. Morality which people didn’t have previously to the so, but He taught ‘nirvisesh-sunyavad’... He taught., he taught a concept of the Absolute Truth , where, He did not discuss any personal features. He was a voidists philosopher.,Salvationist philosopher. And Shankar came, to reestablish the Vedas because it is., it is only through the authority pf the Vedas which means the word of God, that ultimately bhakti can be fostered….correct!!!!, but He did at such a secret way that He convinced the whole of India to accept the Vedas because He’s because He did not stir things too much. To accept the conclusion of Buddha on the basis of the Vedas and He called it God. He called that voidists conception God..,so.,so.
 
He was giving people the connection to the., to the idea of Brahman or God. And He was keeping people close to Vedas. Knowing that that was just a part of the mission in which Ramanuja, Madhva and ultimately Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu would come and say ,…aa…You are accepting there is Brahman., yes looking at what the Vedas say., there is Brahman., but there is Parabrahman….He glorified Krishna in Gita at when the great Acarya like Ramanuja came and they explained a You see., You see like your Shankar has taught you to accept Gita., Accept Krishna., but what did Krishna say, ‘bhaktya man abhijanati yavam yascasmin tatvatah’ [40.10 mnts] Yes it is only by devotion that you can understand Me as Supreme Person..em… So, in this way He was gradually fostering all living beings in this universe towards bhakti and directly…and on another level. This is also very important to understand that first Vishnu instructed Siva that you come as Sankaracarya , you come as a Brahmin boy and you teach this Mayavad philosophy which is covered Buddhism. He also says that by doing that your will progress the influence of age of Kali…aaa….because this idea of you’re God, I’m God everything is God although He taught His disciples to be very strict therefore conception become., so easily perverted that I’m God ., You are God and doesn’t matter what we do, right!!. And there is illicit sex, then there is ..em..em unwanted population and that Kali yuga just with full speed ahead… How is that fostering bhakti because it is in the midst of this., it is the midst of greatest degradation of kali yuga that Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu appears…. It is like Narada Muni he went and told Kamsa., that Krishna is God., Krishna is the 8th son of Devaki and Kamsa was sending demons everywhere to kill all the children but he never know that Krishna was the 8th son of Devaki it was just before Kamsa sent Akrura to Vrindavan that Narada muni just came to Kamsa and he said., do you want to know something??? You want to know who the 8th son of Devaki and Vasudeva., you have been wondering for rest 12-13 years.
 
It is Krishna son of Nanda [Mahraj gives a laugh by saying this last sentence] now not only that but when Kamsa, when Vasudeva and Devaki first had their child…Kirtimaan… Narada muni told then, Do you want to know something that not only God is going to kill and all the demigods going to be with Him and the people of the Yadu dynasty are going to.[42.51mnts] So anyone of these people could be your enemies. They started killing everybody….so what did Narada muni do he stirred up the most tragic terrible scenario unimaginable. He stirred up Kamsa of killing everybody everywhere……..why???? Because it would hasten the appearance of the the Lord. The Lord appears when things get the worst and Narada muni wanted Hi m to come fast [Mahraj laughs]…So Shankar is vaisanava ananyatah sambhu[43.25mnts] …Sambhu is Vishnu but appearing in., He in a different way, in appearing , in appearing as a devotee and He is serving in the same mission as Narada muni in the sense as Shankacarya by teaching, a philosophy which could cause such incredible degradation in human society that the yuga avatar Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu would come fast. ..aaa…So in this way, yes, His mission of spreading Mayavad philosophy was to foster bhakti in the ultimate senses..emm…. And not only that but the more degraded things are the more glorious Krishna is when He comes. ‘namo maha-vadanyaya Krishna prema pradaya te Krishnaya Krishna Chaitanya namne gaure-tvise namah’ … Rupa Goswami says that Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu ., is the most munificent ., the greatest of all avatars… why??...because He is doing where no body else has ever done.
 
He is taking the most fallen wretched people of Kali yuga and giving them the highest realization of conjugal love of God…Indiscriminately… Lord Chaitanya is not so famous., He is most famous when He is delivering the most fallen and when Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu delivered Jagai and Madhai…….of everyone He delivered., he is most famous for that because they were the most representatives of Kali yuga…they were drunkards., they were thieves., they were woman hunters.., they were murderers., they were blasphemers ., they were everything. He was glorified for delivering Jagai and Madhai, so Shankar one of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s divine incarnation to be as glorious as possible as., ‘patita pavana’ avatar.. therefore He directed the world to be as degraded as impossibly would be so that when He would be that much glorious …aa…. Because this Mayavada philosophy of you’re God., I’m God ., everyone is God ., when it comes down ., big sannyasis they were renounced., but when it comes down to the general mass of people ., it means ., do your own thing.,. I’m all right ., you’re all right ., everything is all right ., no need for morality after all we are all God and God is the father of morality,, right!!!! So whatever I do is perfect in other way people think…so actually His mission was in disguise, all men to glorify the advent of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu..