Pradyumna: (leads chanting, etc.) Translation: "O conqueror of wealth (Arjuna), there is no truth superior to Me. Everything rests upon Me, as pearls are strung on a thread."

Prabhupada:

mattaḥ; parataraṁ nanyat
kiñcid asti dhanañjaya
mayi sarvam idaṁ protaṁ
sutre maṇi-gaṇa iva
[Bg. 7.7]

So the material and spiritual world, everything is manifestation of two energies. That is explained by Krṣṇa. Bhumir apo 'nalo vayuḥ; khaṁ mano buddhir eva ca [Bg. 7.4]. Apareyam itas tu viddhi me prakrtiṁ param. On these verses we have discussed two days that etad yonini sarvaṇi, whatever is manifested, material or spiritual, both of them are coming from the energy of the Supreme. Just like heat and light, these are two energies of the fire.

So that is, also explained in the Viṣṇu Puraṇa: parasya brahmaṇaḥ; saktis tathedam akhilaṁ jagat.

eka-desa-sthitasyagner
jyotsna vistariṇi yatha
parasya brahmaṇaḥ; saktis
tathedam akhilaṁ jagat

Tathedam akhilaṁ jagat or sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma, the Vedic injunction. The energy and the energetic cannot be separated. If there is no energy, there is no meaning of the energetic. And there is no meaning of energetic if it has, if he has no energy. So those things are simultaneously present. The example, as we have given several times, that the sun and the sunshine and the heat of the shine, sun, they are always present. Wherever there is sun, there is light and there is heat. So heat and light is the understanding of the presence of sun. Sometimes sun is covered, but still we experience heat and light. Therefore we understand the sun is there. Similarly Krṣṇa, or God, is there. You have to understand by the energies, the material energy and the spiritual energy. That is already explained in two verses.

So now Krṣṇa is summarizing in this verse... Because the whole manifestation, tathedam akhilaṁ jagat, the whole universe is presentation of the energy of the Lord, therefore there is nothing but Lord. Mattaḥ; parataraṁ nanyat [Bg. 7.7]. Just like in this material world, we have got experience, the sun is the cause of all material manifestations. When the sunlight or sun heat... Just like Western countries, in this season, the sunlight and heat is practically not present. Therefore it is snowfall. There is no foliage in the trees. Every tree is deserted, due to the sun. And as soon as from the month of April the sunshine will be little more, mean, increased, at once the leaves will come out. In the Western world, this experience... Anywhere. The sun is the cause of everything, all this material world. So you can say that in this material world, there is nothing superior energy than the sun. Similarly, this is also a creation of God, the sunshine. It is stated in the Brahma-saṁhita: yac cakṣur eṣa savita sakala-grahaṇam. Savita means sun.

yac cakṣur eṣa savita sakala-grahaṇaṁ
raja samasta-sura-murtir aseṣa-tejaḥ;
yasyajñaya bhramati sambhrta-kala-cakro
govindam adi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajami

Even the sun, which is the supreme cause of this material world, of this universe... All the planets, they are rotating on account of heat of the sun. If the sun moves little this side or that side, everything will be blazing fire or frozen into ice. This is scientific truth.

So as the sun is the supreme cause of this material world, similarly the supreme cause of... There are many millions of universes and millions of suns. They are all caused by the supreme energy of Krṣṇa, bhumir apo 'nalo vayuḥ; and apareyam itas tu viddhi me prakrtiṁ param [Bg. 7.4]. Two prakrtis, para-prakrti and apara-prakrti. So the Vedanta-sutra, that janmady asya yataḥ; [SB 1.1.1], the original source of everything, Brahman, that is Krṣṇa. Therefore Krṣṇa says, mattaḥ; parataraṁ nanyat [Bg. 7.7]. Brahman is not supreme. Then Krṣṇa would have said not... "Brahman is the Supreme." But He says, mattaḥ; parataraṁ nanyat. Brahman is the bodily effulgence of Krṣṇa. Yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi [Bs. 5.40]. Brahman is not the supreme cause. Brahmaṇo 'haṁ pratiṣṭha. Brahman is existing on Krṣṇa. Therefore Krṣṇa says, Krṣṇa has the right to say, mattaḥ; parataraṁ nanyat: "There is no more superior cause." And in the Brahma-saṁhita, Lord Brahma also says, sarva-karaṇa-karaṇam [Bs. 5.1].

isvaraḥ; paramaḥ; krṣṇaḥ;
sac-cid-ananda-vigrahaḥ;
anadir adir govindaḥ;
sarva-karaṇa-karaṇam
[Bs. 5.1]

So it is not that Krṣṇa is saying only. It is accepted by the supreme Vedic authority, Lord Brahma.

isvaraḥ; paramaḥ; krṣṇaḥ;
sac-cid-ananda-vigrahaḥ;
anadir adir govindaḥ;
sarva-karaṇa-karaṇam
[Bs. 5.1]

The Vedanta-sutra also says, janmady asya yataḥ; anvayat [SB 1.1.1]. The Bhagavata explains, janmady asya yataḥ; anvayat itaratas ca artheṣu abhijñaḥ; sva-raṭ. He's abhijñaḥ;. He knows everything. Janmady asya yataḥ; [SB 1.1.1]. That is Krṣṇa. And Arjuna accepted. Arjuna said, in the Tenth Chapter, sarvam etad rtaṁ manye yad vadasi kesava: [Bg. 10.14] "My dear Krṣṇa, whatever You are saying, I accept in toto." This is understanding of Bhagavad-gita. Try to understand Bhagavad-gita as it is. Krṣṇa says, mattaḥ; parataraṁ nanyat: [Bg. 7.7] "There is no more superior being or superior authority than Me." If you accept that "There is no more superior authority or supreme being than Krṣṇa," then you study Bhagavad-gita. And if you cut the head and the tail and accept something and reject something, that is not Bhagavad-gita. Take it as it is. Therefore we are presenting Bhagavad-gita as it is, not curtailing this or that: "This meaning is that; that meaning is that." No such nonsense. We accept... This is Krṣṇa consciousness movement. Krṣṇa says that He is the supreme authority. We are preaching "Krṣṇa is the supreme authority." Where is the difficulty? We don't manufacture anything. We don't say, "I am the supreme authority." No. I am rascal. I am fool. I am imperfect. But Krṣṇa is Supreme, Krṣṇa is perfect. That is our preaching. As servant of Krṣṇa.

Therefore, because we are presenting Krṣṇa as He is, therefore our preaching is perfect. I may be imperfect, but our preaching is not imperfect. It is very simple. We are preaching all over the world, "Krṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead." And these foreign boys and girls who are after me, they also accepted. They do not say that "Here is another God, sir. Why you are asking?" That is the difficulty in India. As soon as we shall say, "Krṣṇa is the Supreme Lord, Krṣṇa is the..., there is no more superior person than Krṣṇa," others will say, "No, why this gentleman is not superior than Krṣṇa?" That is the difficulty. They'll not accept. Their brain has been full with hodge-podge things. Therefore they cannot take Krṣṇa consciousness so... Of course, at heart, in India, everyone feels for Krṣṇa, but they have been educated in such a wrong way, they cannot accept Krṣṇa as the Supreme, as Krṣṇa says, mattaḥ; parataraṁ nanyat [Bg. 7.7]. This is the difficulty.

But unless you accept, unless you come to this point, that Krṣṇa is the Supreme, your education, your knowledge and everything is imperfect. Therefore Krṣṇa says,

bahunaṁ janmanam ante
jñanavan maṁ prapadyate
vasudevaḥ; sarvam iti
sa mahatma sudurlabhaḥ;
[Bg. 7.19]

If you don't accept in this life... But if you are sincere to understand what is God, then you'll have to wait for many other lives. Life after life, you have to struggle. And then, by the grace of Krṣṇa, if you come in touch with a devotee of Krṣṇa, then you'll understand what is Krṣṇa. That is the beginning, teaching of Krṣṇa. Manuṣyaṇaṁ sahasreṣu kascid yatati siddhaye [Bg. 7.3]. Manuṣyaṇaṁ sahasreṣu. Out of many, many millions of persons, one is trying to make his life perfect. Everyone, mostly, 99.9%, they are blind. Andha yathandhair upaniyamanaḥ;. They are being led by blind men. They are blind, and they are led by blind men. Na te viduḥ; svartha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇum [SB 7.5.31]. They do not know that the ultimate goal of life is to understand Viṣṇu, or Krṣṇa, and go back to Him. That is the goal of life. Tyaktva dehaṁ punar janma naiti [Bg. 4.9]. That is being taught in the Bhagavad-gita. This is the goal of life. But they are misled. They are captivated by this material energy. That will be explained in this chapter also. Tribhir guṇamayair bhavaiḥ;, mohitaṁ nabhijanati mam ebhyaḥ; param avyayam [Bg. 7.13]. They have been bewildered by the three modes of material nature. They are not trying to understand Krṣṇa. They are not trying to follow the instruction of Krṣṇa. Therefore they are in difficulty. The whole trouble is due to this ignorance. Therefore there is great necessity for broadcasting this Krṣṇa consciousness movement. There is great necessity.

So this business was entrusted by... Lord Caitanya started this movement. Actually, Krṣṇa started this movement five thousand years ago and taught this subject matter to Arjuna in the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra. But unfortunate as we are, we could not take up the mission of Krṣṇa. The mission of Krṣṇa was, yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata, tadatmanaṁ srjamy aham [Bg. 4.7]. As soon as there is discrepancy in the matter of discharging religious principle... Means, religious principle means the law of God. Dharmaṁ tu sakṣad bhagavat-praṇitam [SB 6.3.19]. Religion means the laws of God. Religion does not mean "I have manufactured some religion, he has manufactured some religion, he has manufactured some religion, and another man has... Yes, all religions are right." Yata mata tata patha. No. That is nonsense. Religion is one. Sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekaṁ saraṇaṁ vraja [Bg. 18.66]. This is religion. Kick out all sorts of religious principles; simply surrender to God, or Krṣṇa. Sa vai puṁsaṁ paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhokṣaje [SB 1.2.6]. This is confirmed. That is first-class religion, which teaches how to surrender to God and how to become a lover of God. That is religion. Otherwise, they are simply cheating religion.

That is explained in the Bhagavatam. Dharmaḥ; projjhita-kaitavo 'tra paramo nirmatsaraṇaṁ sataṁ vedyaṁ vastavam atra vastu [SB 1.1.2]. Dharmaḥ; projjhita, cheating type of religion, is kicked out from this Srimad-Bhagavatam. Projjhita. Prakrṣṭa-rupeṇa ujjhita. And Sridhara Svami gives his comments: atra mokṣa-vañcha api nirastam. Anyone, any type of religion... Just like the Mayavadi philosophy. They are trying to have mokṣa, to merge into the existence of the Supreme. But Bhagavata says, "No, that is also cheating." Dharma-artha-kama-mokṣa [SB 4.8.41, Cc. Adi 1.90], catur-varga... The word... First of all, they do not know what is religion. But the... Actually, life, perfection of life, begins from religion, dharma. Then artha. Then following the religious principles, you acquire money, artha. Artha is required. But not in..., sinfully, but properly. Dharma artha kama. Then, you have got senses, you require to satisfy the senses. So artha required for sense gratification. But that artha must be based on religion. This is called dharma, artha, and kama. Dharmartha-kama-mokṣa. Then, when one actually becomes wise, he is no more attracted by sense gratification, rather, he desires a greater type of sense gratification, namely, he wants to become God, to merge into the existence of God. So that is also a cheating. You cannot become God. [break]

...maṁ prapadyate, vasudevaḥ; sarvam iti sa mahatma sudurlabhaḥ; [Bg. 7.19]. That is mahatma, one who has surrendered to Krṣṇa, understanding that Krṣṇa is the cause of all causes, Krṣṇa is the source of material energy and spiritual energy. As it is explained here. And therefore Krṣṇa is the Supreme. And Krṣṇa confirms this fact: mattaḥ; parataraṁ nanyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya [Bg. 7.7]. This is required. This is required. We have to accept this. Krṣṇa says this. And Arjuna, who heard Bhagavad-gita from Krṣṇa, he says, paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhama pavitraṁ paramaṁ bhavan, puruṣam adyam [Bg. 10.12]. Adyam, "You are the original person. You are the original..." Puruṣam adyam, in the Bhagavad-gita. Adyam. Therefore Krṣṇa says, mattaḥ; parataraṁ nanyat [Bg. 7.7]. This is all confirmed. The audience, Krṣṇa, I mean to say, Arjuna, is accepting, and Krṣṇa is confirming.

Therefore Bhagavad-gita is perfect. Otherwise where is the authority of Bhagavad-gita. If we do not accept the author, or the speaker, of the Bhagavad-gita, and if we do not accept the student of Bhagavad-gita, Arjuna, then where is the study of Bhagavad-gita? It is something nonsense. You have to accept the version of Bhagavad-gita as it is stated by Krṣṇa, and you have to accept the version of Arjuna as it is admitted by Krṣṇa. Then you are perfect in Bhagavad-gita. Otherwise you have simply wasted your time.

vasudeve bhagavati
bhakti-yogaḥ; prayojitaḥ;
janayaty asu vairagyaṁ
jñanaṁ ca yad ahaitukam
[SB 1.2.7]

dharmaḥ; svanuṣṭhitaḥ; puṁsaṁ
viṣvaksena-kathasu yaḥ;
notpadayed yadi ratiṁ
srama eva hi kevalam
[SB 1.2.8]

This is the version of Srimad-Bhagavatam. Srama eva hi kevalam. Simply laboring. Simply uselessly laboring. If you do not awaken your Krṣṇa consciousness by studying the Vedas, by studying Bhagavad-gita, by studying Bhagavad... Simply Bhagavad-gita. This is the essence of all Vedic literature, although it is ABCD, beginning of spiritual life, spiritual understanding. Unfortunately, people do not understand even the ABCD of this Bhagavad-gita. And what to speak of becoming graduate and postgraduate? This is the difficulty. If we try to understand Bhagavad-gita as it is, at least we understand what is Krṣṇa, what is God. God is explaining Himself. And we are searching after God, making sear... There are so many institutions. In Oxford University there is a big research department. But here God is canvassing. He's explaining. There was a great controversy. What is that professor?

Pradyumna: Professor Al Zayner, Hardy.

Prabhupada: Huh?

Pradyumna: Al Zayner, Professor Zayner.

Prabhupada: Professor Zayner. So I invited him. So he did not dare to come before us. So there was another professor. What is that? Sir...?

Pradyumna: Sir Alistair Hardy.

Prabhupada: Sir Alistair Hardy. He came. He admitted. He's making research. So these things are going on. Why research? Everything is there in the Bhagavad-gita. Everything is explained and commented by so many, many great, stalwart, I mean to say, commentator, especially Sridhara Svami, Ramanujacarya, Visvanatha Cakravarti, Baladeva Vidyabhuṣana. So many great scholars, they have commented upon Bhagavad-gita. So try to understand Bhagavad-gita as it is. That is the real necessity of life. That we have explained several times.

This human form of life. The... Narottama dasa Ṭhakura says that, hari hari bifale janama goṅainu. "My dear Lord, Hari, I have simply spoiled my life." Bifale jan..., hari hari bifale janama goṅainu. "I have wasted my time." Why? Manuṣya-janama paiya, radha-krṣṇa na bhajiya, janiya suniya biṣa khainu. "I got this nice human form of body especially for worshiping Radha and Krṣṇa, but I have not done that. Therefore willingly I have drunk poison." Janiya suniya biṣa khainu. Golokera prema-dhana, hari-nama-saṅkirtana. The saṅkirtana movement is not manufactured in this material world. It is released from Vaikuṇṭha, the spiritual world. Golokera prema-dhana... Otherwise why we are chanting Hare Krṣṇa, Hare Krṣṇa...? It is not material sound. Any material sound, you chant thrice, you'll be tired. But you go on chanting Hare Krṣṇa mantra twenty-four hours, you'll never be tired. Therefore it is not a sound of this material world; it is a sound of the spiritual world. Golokera prema-dhana, hari-nama-saṅkirtana, rati na janmilo kene tay. "I am not attracted to this." This is the lamentation of Narottama dasa Ṭhakura, a Vaiṣṇava. Saṁsara-biṣanale, diba-nisi hiya jvale. "In this material existence, this eating, sleeping, mating and defending, with this business, always my heart is burning." Saṁsara-biṣanale, diba-nisi hiya jvale, juraite na kainu upaya. "I did not make any means to get out of this." Golokera prema-dhana. Therefore indirectly he is giving hint that human life is meant for worshiping Radha-Krṣṇa and chanting Hare Krṣṇa maha-mantra.

This is the subject matter of Krṣṇa consciousness movement, to understand that Krṣṇa is the Supreme. Mattaḥ; parataraṁ nanyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya [Bg. 7.7], mayi... Here Arjuna is addressed as Dhanañjaya. Dhanañjaya means the richest man, who has conquered over wealth. In other sense, only dhanañjaya, "a person who has conquered over wealth," he can understand that Krṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Dhanañjaya, Arjuna's another name is Dhanañjaya, because after Battle of Kurukṣetra there was no money. So by the order of Maharaja Yudhiṣṭhira, he brought from the Himalaya range a great quantity of gold so that he could expend them for performing asvamedha-yajña, rajasuya-yajña. So therefore from that name, from that person, this title was given by..., I mean to say, Maharaja Yudhiṣṭhira to that Arjuna, Dhanañjaya.

So mayi sarvam idaṁ protam. The example is very nice. Mayi sarvam idaṁ protaṁ sutre maṇi-gaṇa iva. Just like pearls. The pearls... Take it. Pearl is round, and the innumerable universes are also round. So all these universes are staying... Mat-sthani sarva-bhutani [Bg. 9.4]. Krṣṇa says. Mat-sthani sarva-bhutani na cahaṁ teṣv avasthitaḥ;. So everything is resting on Krṣṇa. In another place He says that "I am sustaining all these planets." Of course, we understand law of gravitation according to our theory, but actually, according to Vedic description, the Saṅkarṣaṇa is sustaining all these planets. So anyway, it is to be understood. Just like the, all the planets are floating in the air in weightlessness... How this weightlessness comes? That is explained here. Mayi, "It is resting on Me." Krṣṇa says. Mayi sarvam idaṁ protaṁ sutre maṇi-gaṇa iva.

So He is the ultimate cause, He is the cause of all causes. Sarva-karaṇa-karaṇam [Bs. 5.1]. Parama isvaraḥ;, the supreme controller. In this way we have to understand Krṣṇa. Then our life will be successful. Because our, this human life is meant for understanding Krṣṇa. Vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyaḥ; [Bg. 15.15]. This is the real knowledge. Unless you come to this real knowledge, your life is unsuccessful. Therefore Krṣṇa says, bahunaṁ janmanam ante: [Bg. 7.19] "Those who will not accept Me in one life, he has to wait for many, many lives, but to come to this conclusion, that vasudevaḥ; sarvam iti sa mahatma... [Bg. 7.19]" If you actually want to become mahatma, then you have to come to this point, that vasudevaḥ; sarvam iti [Bg. 7.19]. That is mahatma. Mahatma does not mean by simply changing this dress. Mahatma means who understands Krṣṇa. He's mahatma because his soul is increased in dimension to understand Krṣṇa. Vasudevaḥ; sarvam iti sa ma... [Bg. 7.19]. Mahatmanas tu maṁ partha daiviṁ prakrtim asritaḥ; [Bg. 9.13]. As soon as you become mahatma, then you are no longer under the control of this material nature. That is also confirmed. Mam eva ye prapadyante mayam etaṁ taranti te. Daivi hy eṣa guṇamayi mama maya duratyaya [Bg. 7.14]. Otherwise, you have to remain under the clutches of maya and punished by him.

krṣṇa-bahirmukha haña bhoga vañcha kare
nikaṭa-stha maya tare japaṭiya dhare
(Prema-vivarta)

These are simple Bengali poetries by Vaiṣṇavas that as soon as you desire to enjoy your senses... That enjoyment of senses will not give you happiness. That is our practical experience. Anybody, call anybody who is engaged in sense gratification, ask him, "Are you happy?" He'll never say. They are... We have practically seen. These Europeans and Americans, they have enough sense gratification. Sense gratification means money and women. So they have got enough of it. Why they are after me, rejecting this? Because sense gratification will never give you satisfaction. That is false satisfaction. Real satisfaction is when you satisfy Krṣṇa. That is satisfaction.

atmendriya-priti-vañcha-tare bali 'kama'
krṣṇendriya-priti-iccha dhare 'prema' nama
[Cc. Adi 4.165]

When you sat..., want to satisfy your senses, then you are under the clutches of kama, lust. But the same endeavor, when you want to satisfy the senses of Krṣṇa, that is called prema, or bhakti.

So Krṣṇa is personally teaching. Why we should satisfy Krṣṇa? Because there is no more a greater authority than Krṣṇa. We are trying to serve here greater authority. Every one of us... We are going to office, we are going to party meeting, we are going to be elected president. So what is that? That I assure that "I shall satisfy your senses. You want this? I shall give you. Please elect me." Everyone is trying to satisfy the senses. Either of own self... He's giving false promise. Actually, he wants to satisfy his own senses. As soon as he becomes minister, he'll satisfy his own senses. But he's getting elected by promising satisfying..., to satisfy your senses. But the sense gratification is going on. But there is chaos because the point is missing. There is no activity for satisfying senses of Krṣṇa. That is the defect of the modern civilization. Therefore one should learn that you are satisfying the senses of others. Try to satisfy the senses of Krṣṇa, because there is no more greater authority than Krṣṇa. We are satisfying the senses of greater authority. That's all. Or my senses. Because my senses are also greater authority—kama, krodha, lobha, moha, matsarya. These are very strongly dictating me, "Do this." I don't want to do this. My conscience is willing (beating?). But my kama, my lust, is forcing me.

So this is my position. So in this position, I'll never be satisfied. If you understand that "Krṣṇa is the supreme authority, and my only duty is to satisfy Krṣṇa," then your life will be successful.

Thank you very much. (end)

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