BHAGAVAD-GITA 6:30

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 6:30

 

yo mam pasyati sarvatra

sarvam ca mayi pasyati

tasyaham na pranasyami

sa ca me na pranasyati

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

yah--whoever; mam--Me; pasyati--sees; sarvatra--everywhere;

sarvam--everything; ca--and; mayi--in Me; pasyati--sees; tasya--for

him; aham--I; na--not; pranasyami--am lost; sah--he; ca--also; me--to

Me; na--nor; pranasyati--is lost.

 

TRANSLATION

 

For one who sees Me everywhere and sees everything in Me, I am never

lost, nor is he ever lost to Me.

 

PURPORT

 

A person in Krsna consciousness certainly sees Lord Krsna everywhere,

and he sees everything in Krsna. Such a person may appear to see all

separate manifestations of the material nature, but in each and every

instance he is conscious of Krsna, knowing that everything is a

manifestation of Krsna's energy. Nothing can exist without Krsna, and

Krsna is the Lord of everything--this is the basic principle of Krsna

consciousness. Krsna consciousness is the development of love of

Krsna--a position transcendental even to material liberation. At this

stage of Krsna consciousness, beyond self-realization, the devotee

becomes one with Krsna in the sense that Krsna becomes everything for

the devotee and the devotee becomes full in loving Krsna. An intimate

relationship between the Lord and the devotee then exists. In that

stage, the living entity can never be annihilated, nor is the

Personality of Godhead ever out of the sight of the devotee. To merge

in Krsna is spiritual annihilation. A devotee takes no such risk. It

is stated in the Brahma-samhita (5.38):

 

premanjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena

santah sadaiva hrdayesu vilokayanti

yam syamasundaram acintya-guna-svarupam

govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami

 

"I worship the primeval Lord, Govinda, who is always seen by the devotee

whose eyes are anointed with the pulp of love. He is seen in His

eternal form of Syamasundara, situated within the heart of the

devotee."

 

At this stage, Lord Krsna never disappears from the sight of the

devotee, nor does the devotee ever lose sight of the Lord. In the case

of a yogi who sees the Lord as Paramatma within the heart, the same

applies. Such a yogi turns into a pure devotee and cannot bear to live

for a moment without seeing the Lord within himself.

 

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