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" God Knows Everything "

73/08/11 Paris, Bhagavad-gita 13.3

 

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Devotee: " O scion of Bharata, you should also understand that I am also the

knower in all bodies and to understand this body and its owner is called

knowledge. That is my opinion. "

 

Prabhupada: So Arjuna inquired from Krsna six things: ksetra, ksetrajna,

prakrti, purusa, jnanam, jneyam. What is knowledge and what is the object of

knowledge. Jnanam jneyam. Ksetra, field of activities, ksetrajna, the worker on

that field, ksetra, ksetrajna, and prakrti, nature, and the purusa. Material

nature and purusa means the enjoyer. Six question. Of course Bhagavad-gita is

each and every word and letter is full of knowledge. But these six inquiries, if

actually can understand the six items, he becomes the perfect knower. That is

said by Krsna: yat taj jnanam matam mama. Jnanam means knowledge. So if anyone

can understand the six items, then he is in full knowledge.

 

Yat taj jnanam matam mama. " You have asked me, Arjuna... " And bhagavan uvaca,

and the Supreme Personality of Godhead speaking. Not only speaking, He says,

just like a gentleman... Whatever He says is perfect but still He says, " This is

My opinion. " " This is My opinion. " Now my opinion you can take or not take, that

is up to you. But who can give better opinion than Krsna? That is another

knowledge. Why Krsna? Arjuna is asking Krsna. Because in the beginning he has

said that " Nobody can make solution of my problem. You are the best. " So

following the footsteps of Arjuna, if we accept Krsna's words, not blindly but

with good logic, good scientific research, if we actually try to understand what

Krsna speaks, then all our problems are solved.

 

Now in the previous verse, sri bhagavan uvaca. Vyasadeva could have said " krsna

uvaca, " Krsna said. No. He has purposefully said " bhagavan. " Krsna, you may not

like, but He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Bhagavan, with six

opulences. One of the opulence is full knowledge. Aisvaryasya samagrasya

viryasya yasasah sriyah jnanam. Krsna is complete in knowledge. Sarvajnam.

Janmady asya yatah anvayad itaratas carthesv abhijnah [sB 1.1.1]. God means

abhijnah. He knows everything. You cannot hide anything from God. That is

abhijnah. Vasudeva. Vasudeva sarvam iti sa mahatma sudurlabhah. One who can

understand Vasudeva. Sa mahatma sudurlabhah. Such great saintly person is very

rare who can understand Krsna.

 

Now preliminary understanding. Krsna said in the previous verse that, idam

sariram kaunteya ksetram ity abhidhiyate [bg. 13.2]. Idam sariram, this body is

called ksetra, field of activities. Idam sariram kaunteya ksetram ity

abhidhiyate etad yo vetti: anyone who understands. [Tam] sa prahuh ksetrajnah

iti tad-vidah. He is ksetrajnah or the knower of the... Just like we are sitting

in this room. It is very easy. Still the rascals, they cannot understand. We are

sitting in this room. So the room, the floor is called ksetra, field. It is also

field, a small field. And everyone of us, we know that we are sitting on this

floor. Nobody will says that " I am the floor. " Will any sane man say that " I am

the floor " ? Nobody will say. It is common sense. So if you try to understand

from this simple example, that I am one identity and this field, that is another

identity. So I know that I am sitting on this floor.

 

Similarly this body is one identity and I am another identity. So knowledge

means when we can understand that it is " my body, " not " I body. " Not this

nonsense. Nobody says, " I body. " Everyone says " my body. " This is knowledge. But

these rascals, these rascals of modern age, they are saying " I body. " " I am this

body. " What you are? " I am this body. " What is your interest? " Now anything

which is interested with my body. " He's not " I body, " still he's interested with

everything with this bodily relation. There are thousands of girls, women, but a

particular woman with whom I have got my bodily relation, that is my wife. That

is mine. And combination, the child comes out, " my child. " In this way, " my

house, " " my property, " " my body, " " my relative, " " my friend, " " my brother, " " my

nation, " my, my, my, my. But the rascal does not understand that the beginning

of " my " philosophy has begun from this body, which I am not.

 

This is knowledge. This is called brahma-jnana. If anyone understands the simple

thing, that " I am not this body... " But education is given, " No, I am this

body. " This nationalism, this nationalism also the same mistake, but they are

fighting so much. Great, great, big, big men. In this country, Napoleon fought.

In Germany, Hitler fought. And so many others, in our country Gandhi fought. But

he is in ignorance. All these big big leaders, they are ignorance, andha, blind.

Blind. They do not know that he is not this body and neither this land belongs

to him. But they fight. The whole history of the world means this mistaken idea.

" I " and " mine. "

 

Therefore Krsna says, yat taj jnanam. Ksetra-ksetrajnayor yat taj-jnanam matam

mama. Krsna is giving, that one should know what he is and one should know what

is his body, then he is in knowledge. The matter cannot understand this. The

dogs, cats, cannot understand this. But a human being can understand this.

Bhagavad-gita is meant for the human being, not for the cats and dogs.

Therefore, the human society should take care of this knowledge. Then his life

will be successful.

 

So it is very simple thing, that ksetra... As I have given the example, that I

am sitting on this floor. The floor is different identity from me. No sane man

will say that " I am this floor. " Or " I am this room. " Nobody will say. It is my

room, my floor. Similarly this body, we say " my. " My finger, my head, my leg.

Nobody says that " I leg, I finger, I head. " No. This is knowledge. Don't

identify yourself with this body. This is knowledge.

 

This is beginning of spiritual life. The cats and dogs, they cannot understand.

The cat cannot understand that he's not body. The dog cannot understand that he

is not body. It is the human being who can understand. So if in the human life

one does not try to understand this simple knowledge, then he remains like cats

or dogs. He's no better than cats and dogs.

 

This is one point: that I am not this body, I am not this material world. I am a

spiritual identity, part and parcel of God. Qualitatively we are one. As God is

spirit, so I am also spirit. But His body is very big, gigantic, the universal

body, which Krsna showed to Arjuna, the virata-rupa. But my body is not

gigantic. It is small. Maybe we call the elephant's body gigantic or similar

other animal's body, but still God's body is still more gigantic. You cannot

compare. Eleventh chapter of the Bhagavad-gita you'll know how gigantic body has

Krsna. So as I have got this body but my spiritual identity is very small, if we

study in this way, it is very easy to understand what is God, what I am, what is

this world. Just like I am not this body, I am within the body. Dehino 'smin

yatha dehe [bg. 2.13]. I am the proprietor of the body.

 

But what is my magnitude? Kesagra-sata-bhagasya satadha kalpitasya ca [Cc. Madya

19.140]. You just take the top of the hair and divide it into ten thousand

parts. That one part is your identity. So in these material ideas, we cannot

understand that such a small particle, smaller than the atom, has got so power.

Therefore, because it is so small, these so-called rascal scientists, they

cannot find it, where it is; therefore say, " There is no soul. " The rascals will

not admit their inefficiency to know and still they will say, " no soul. " And if

there is no soul, then how it is working? They have no even common sense.

 

Similarly, as I am very small, smaller than the atom, and I am living within

this body and my body is working so nicely. My brain is working so nicely.

Similarly, Krsna is also, according to our conception, Krsna is person,

individual, but He has got a very gigantic body. This is the material world,

material expression. That is expressed in the next verse: ksetrajnam capi mam

viddhi. I am also ksetrajnam. As you are knower of your body, the bodily pains

and pleasure you know, I know. I do not know your bodily pains and pleasures.

Neither you know my bodily pains and pleasure. But Krsna says that ksetrajna,

ksetrajnam capi mam viddhi: " I am also ksetrajnam, " means " I also know the

field. "

 

So how He knows? Sarva-ksetresu bharata. Sarva-ksetresu. He is within every

body. He knows what is the ant is doing. He knows what Brahma is doing. He knows

what you are doing. He knows what I am doing. Vedaham samatitani. Krsna says in

another place, " I know everything. " Just like, it is very easy to understand.

Just like, you know everything -- not everything -- at least eighty percent you

know what is going on in your body. You do not know everything.

 

If I know everything then why should I go to a physician when there is something

wrong in my body. I do not know. I am eating, but I do not know how the eatables

are being digested within the stomach, and they are being divided into different

secretion. The rejected part is becoming stool and urine, and the other parts,

they're becoming blood, and the blood is distributed all over the body, through

the veins. How the veins are, what do we know? Although I am claiming my body.

But I do not know everything, what is going on in my body, in my brain. The

brains are made of so fine tissues. What do you know?

 

But Krsna is not like that. Krsna knows everything in detail. Anvayad itaratas

ca arthesv abhijnah. Throughout the whole universe, throughout the whole

creation, in any corner, in any place, whatever is going on, Krsna knows. That

is the difference between Krsna and myself. I do not know even what is going on

within my body. And still I am claiming I am God. How rascal. Just see, imagine.

God's one opulence is that is full knowledge. Aisvaryasya samagrasya viryasya

yasasah sriyah jnanam. This rascal god, so-called god, you ask him, " Can you say

what I am feeling now or what are my pains and pleasures? " Can he say? And still

he's claiming God. But Krsna says, ksetrajnam capi mam viddhi sarva-ksetresu

bharata. " I am in every, every body. " I am also within this body and Krsna is

also within this body. Krsna... As you are within your body, similarly Krsna is

also within your body.

 

So myself, I am called atma. And Krsna is called Paramatma. Therefore there are

two words: Paramatma and atma. Atma is also individual. Paramatma is also

individual. But because both of us, we are knower, ksetrajnam [vibha(?)], the

living entity is ksetrajnam, he has got knowledge. And Krsna says ksetrajnam

capi mam viddhi. " I am also knower. " Both of them, we are knower. We have got

knowledge. My knowledge may be limited. Krsna's knowledge unlimited, complete.

But both of us, we are knower. We can understand. We can know. Therefore, we are

called ksetrajna. But the difference is Krsna knows everything all over the

creation, I even do not know what is going on in my body. That is the

difference.

 

So how one can become God? Rascal. How one can become God. That is not possible.

God knows everything. If one knows everything, then you can accept him as God.

Otherwise, don't accept. As soon as somebody says, " I am God, " kick him on his

face. " Yes, you are God, I am God. I am the kicking God. " (laughter) That should

be the answer. " I am the shoe-beater God. Now you protect yourself if you are

God. " Don't accept this false God.

 

Krsna, krsnas tu bhagavan svayam. Krsnas tu bhagavan svayam. That is the verdict

all... Just like Vyasadeva, the giver of the Vedic knowledge, he says, bhagavan

uvaca: God says. So we have to follow that. So ksetrajnam capi mam viddhi

sarva-ksetresu bharata. (aside:) Don't do that.

 

And this perception, ksetra-ksetrajnayor jnanam. If we can understand what is

ksetra and what is ksetrajnam. Ksetra means field of activities. There are field

of activities in so many ways. Not only of this body; body, mind, intelligence.

They are all ksetra. I am living entity, I am working with them. Similarly, I am

working outside also. Not within, not outside.

 

I am running my ca... That is also ksetra. The world is ksetra. The car is

ksetra. But the doer, the driver, is ksetrajnam. That knowledge is lacking. A

child may think that the airplane, big airplane, 747 is running. No, it is not

running automatically. There is a pilot -- ksetrajnam. He knows the machine, how

to work on it. Everywhere. You study. There is ksetra and ksetrajnam. So Krsna

says ksetra-ksetrajnayor jnanam. One who knows how this ksetra and ksetrajnam is

working... Not only in individual body, in gigantic body, in everything.

 

There are two things: ksetra and ksetrajnam. If one knows this secret of

knowledge, that means he is in perfect knowledge. Taj-jnanam. That is jnanam.

Not that a big professor says that after the finishing of this body, everything

is finished. He's a rascal. He's identifying... Everyone is identifying, just

like cats and dogs, with this body. The body is ksetra. Body is not the person.

A child in ignorance may say that this fine, nice motor car is running

automatically. But it is not running automatically. There is a driver. He does

not know it. Similarly, the whole universal activities is going on. Don't think

it is going on automatically. No, that is foolish knowledge, that nature is

working automatically. No. There is ksetrajnam, Krsna. Sarva-ksetresu bharata.

Everywhere Krsna is working.

 

In another place it is said: mayadhyaksena [bg. 9.10]. He is not working like

foolish man. He is working as the superintendent. Every detail he's taking

account, how you are doing. That is said in the Bhagavad-gita: maya-adhyaksena.

Krsna says " You do this. " Immediately, nature will do that. Krsna says, " You do

this. " Immediately... Not only nature, we are also doing under Krsna's

direction. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gita, fifteenth chapter: sarvasya

caham hrdi sannivisto [bg. 15.15]. " I am sitting in everyone's heart. " Here

also, the same thing. Sarva ksetresu. Not only I am sitting, but Krsna is also

sitting. So Krsna is sanctioning. Krsna is giving permission. Then I am doing. I

cannot alone do it.

 

So Krsna is always ready to give you direction. He's there for direction. But

unfortunately we do not obey Him. That is our material disease. If we obey

Krsna, if we act according to Krsna, then there is no problem. Because Krsna

cannot be mistaken. I am imperfect, I can be mistaken. But Krsna cannot be

mistaken. Therefore, if we act according to the direction of Krsna, then our

life is successful. And to give you direction, Krsna is sitting within your

heart, side by side. As I am sitting, you are sitting within this heart, the

soul is within the heart.

 

Therefore when the soul goes away, these rascals says, " heart failure. " Not

heart failure, the soul has gone from the heart. Heart is also mechanical thing,

but the sitting place of the soul is there. So heart failure means the soul has

gone from the heart. Sarvasya caham hrdi -- hrdi means heart. The location also

being specified -- here is soul and Supersoul. Find out, if you have got such

scientific method. But they cannot find it out. Therefore, the rascals say there

is no God, there is no soul, simply this lump of matter, that's all.

 

So anyone who thinks like that, he's described as go-khara. Go-khara means, go

means cows and khara means asses. Those who are identifying with this body as

the self... Yasyatma buddhi-kunape tri-dhatuke. Kunape. This body is a bag of

bones and flesh with urine and stool and blood and so many other things. But if

you are scientist, advanced, then I can supply you immense bones, immense blood,

immense urine, immense stool, manufacture one body if you are scientist. I give

you ingredients. Immense, any quantity. But you just manufacture one ant. And

still you are thinking that " science, science. " You cannot do anything.

 

Prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah [bg. 3.27]. Everything is done by

prakrti under the direction of Krsna. This is the position. So there are so many

thing. If you have got little brain, try to understand. Then knowledge is

perfect. Even by studying, simply by studying these two or three lines in this

thirteenth chapter, you can become a perfect knower. And if you follow Krsna's

instruction... He is giving you instruction. He's ready to give you instruction.

From inside and outside also. Inside He's sitting. He's ready to give you

instructions. Sarvasya caham hrdi sannivisto [bg. 15.15]. " I am sitting in

everyone's heart. "

 

Mattah smrtir jnanam apohanam ca: " From Me, one remembers, one forgets. " When

you forget something, that is also Krsna's trick. Because... Just like there are

some persons who are devotees and some persons who are demons. So if anyone

wants to become a demons, Krsna is within. He'll give him intelligence in such a

way that he becomes a first-class demon. What is the duty of the first-class

demon? That he'll never understand Krsna. (laughter) That is first-class demon.

And if you want to hear Krsna, then he will give you such instruction as you

will be relieved from this miserable condition of material life and go back to

home, back to Godhead. He's ready. But He does not speak generally, to the

nondevotee. If you become a devotee, pure devotee, without any motive, then

Krsna is sitting within your heart. He says: tesam satata-yuktanam bhajatam

priti-purvakam [bg. 10.10]. " Persons who are twenty-four hours engaged in My

service with love and faith, " buddhi-yogam dadami tam: " I give

him such intelligence by which he can come back to home, back to Godhead. "

He'll give you. Because He knows. But if you don't like to take His instruction,

then He gives instruction to the material nature to get you all right.

 

And what is the main business of material nature? Just to beat you with shoes.

That is nature. Therefore we are suffering in this material world. Because we

have taken shelter of the material nature. Sada samudvigna-dhiyam asad-grahat.

We have taken shelter of this material nature; therefore, we are full of

anxieties and full of miserable condition of life. This is the position. So long

you'll be under the control of the -- you are under the control. You cannot be

independent. You rascal, don't think that ever you shall be independent. Your

position is to remain dependent. If you don't depend on Krsna, then you have to

depend on the material nature, that's all. You cannot become independent. That

is not possible.

 

So these people, these rascals, they are trying to become independent. They are

therefore thinking... One of our student has written, " theomania " , " theomania. "

Therefore, one... Because he cannot become independent artificially he thinks,

" Now let me become God, then I'll become... " But artificial thinking God will

help you -- no. If you artificially think that, " This bank, this big bank

belongs to me. " So you can think like that, but does the bank belong to you? So

these Mayavadi philosophers are like, They meditate, " I am God, I am God, I am

moving the world, I am moving the universe. " They say like that. But actually

does he do so? No. This is false thinking.

 

Real thinking is that I am also individual soul. Krsna is also individual, but

He is Supersoul, Supreme. I am also person, He is also person, but the Supreme

Person. What is the difference between me and Him? I am also person, that's all

right, but He is Supreme Person. That is explained in the Vedas, that eko yo

bahunam vidadhati kaman. For providing myself, my body and soul together, I have

to, work so much. But Krsna, He is providing millions and trillions of living

entities without any endeavor. He is...

 

In Africa, there are millions of elephants. Krsna is supplying food, yes. There

are gorillas, Krsna is supplying food. Why you are anxious for a morsel of

bread? Will not supply Krsna? He's perfect, He can supply huge quantity of food

to the elephant and a particular type of food to the gorillas. You know? We have

read in a book that in Africa where the gorillas live, there are trees. The

fruits of that tree, harder than the bullet, It is so hard. And the gorillas

take those fruits and chews like peanuts. (laughter) Yes, Krsna has given them.

Krsna's living entity. He's also living entity. He has got this body like a

gorilla. So Krsna: Eko yo bahunam vidadhati kaman. He supplies food for

everyone. All the, not only food, all the necessities. Every life, the

necessity.

 

What is that necessities? We require food, we require shelter, we require sex,

we require defense. Krsna provides. Krsna provides. Even birds and beasts life.

In every birds and beast there are so many children, both male and female. With

the birth, they are supplied. Because there is no marriage, there is no seeking

out but with the birth of a bird and beast there is another male and female. And

so far food is concerned, everyone is getting. Shelter is concerned, everyone is

getting. So food, shelter, sex, and defense. The defense. The birds and beasts

they have got their defensing means. Even a small bird, even a small ant, he has

got his defensing measures, six legs. And the birds, they have got their nails.

And the tiger has got jaws, or the cats and -- everyone has got defensive. You

may have atom bomb, but it is defense. It is not intelligence.

 

Four things are already supplied you require to keep your body fit. That is

supplied by God, by Krsna. He has given everyone. So why you are bothering? You

are human being, you have got so much nice brain, civilized. Why you are so much

busy for these four things? If God has supplied these four things to the

animals, beasts, birds, is He very miserly that He'll not supply to the human

being? No. There is food, You have got your particular type of teeth for eating

fruits, flowers, grains. You haven't got canine teeth. Why you should eat meat?

This is not your food.

 

So in this way we have to acquire knowledge. Not like blind men. But

unfortunately we prefer to become a servant of a blind leader instead of Krsna.

This is our disease. We shall serve. I asked this question to Professor

Kotovsky, that " Your communist philosophy and our Krsna consciousness, where is

the difference? You have selected your leader and you have sold yourself to the

orders of Lenin. And we have also bowed down to Krsna and we have sold ourselves

to Krsna. So on principle, where is the difference? " There is no difference. You

have to select one leader. We have also selected one. Now if the leader is

perfect, then my life is perfect. If the leader is wrong, then your life is

wrong. So he could not answer this.

 

The principle is there. You have to select one leader and you have to act by his

order. That is, that is our nature. Because Caitanya Mahaprabhu says: jivera

svarupa haya nitya-krsna-dasa [Cc. Madhya 20.108-109]. Every living entity is

eternal servant of Krsna. When he forgets Krsna he becomes servant of maya. That

is our position. We have to serve. Therefore self-realization means to

understand oneself that " I am dependent on Krsna. I am eternal servant of Krsna,

let me engage myself to the service of the Lord. " That is perfection of

knowledge. Thank you very much. (end)

 

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