Nitai: "Others say that since both Vasudeva and Devaki prayed for You, You have taken Your birth as their son. Undoubtedly You are unborn, yet You take Your birth for their welfare and to kill those who are envious of the demigods."

Prabhupada:

apare vasudevasya
devakyaṁ yacito 'bhyagat
ajas tvam asya kṣemaya
vadhaya ca sura-dviṣam
[SB 1.8.33]

There are... Actually Krṣṇa is unborn, aja, but Aja is taking birth. That is already explained. This is the bewilderment, viḍambanam. It is already explained. So this viḍambanam, speculation or bewilderment, how many types of speculation are there, that is being described by Kuntidevi. Somebody says that Krṣṇa is Yadava. Yadava. Yadavaya madhavaya kesavaya namaḥ;. Yadava means born in the Yadu dynasty. And somebody says Krṣṇa is Vasudeva, son of Vasudeva, Devaki. And Krṣṇa... And some of them, they say, nanda-kumaraya, now, son of Nanda Maharaja. So Krṣṇa has many speculations, but actually He is aja. Ajas tvam asya kṣemaya.

Krṣṇa... This is to be understood, that everyone thinking that He is born in the Yadu family, He is born of Vasudeva, or He is the son of mother Yasoda and Nanda Maharaja. This is Krṣṇa's pastime. When the impersonalist says, or there are many philosophers, that "God has no name," actually that is a fact. God has no name. But He has name according to His activities. Just like when He acts as the chariot driver of Arjuna, His name is Partha-sarathi. When He plays as the child of mother Yasoda, He is called Yasoda-nandana. When people say that He is born of Nanda Maharaja, He is called Nanda-nandana. When people say that He came to protect Vasudeva and Devaki, He is called Vasudeva, or Devaki-nandana. Or when He is in the Yadu dynasty, He's said as Yadava. In this way, Krṣṇa has unlimited pastimes and unlimited names. Advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam [Bs. 5.33]. Ananta. Ananta means unlimited. He has got unlimited because so many devotees, not one devotees, and He has to satisfy everyone, as Nanda-kumara, as Yasoda-nandana, as Vasudeva, as Yadava, as Partha-sarathi. So in this way, when one becomes bewildered that how many names He has got, so one should understand He has unlimited names or no name, but because He has to act unlimitedly, therefore He has got unlimited names.

So whole thing is summarized in one word: "Krṣṇa," means all-attractive. He draws the attraction of Vasudeva. He draws the attraction of Yadu-kula. He draws the attraction of Arjuna. He draws attraction of everyone, all devotees. Mama vartmanuvartante partha sarvasaḥ;. The whole world, civilized world, they have got some religion-Christian religion, Muhammadan religion, Hindu religion, Buddhist religion, and many other subordinate religions. Under the groups of Christian, there are so many churches-Protestant, Catholic. In the Muhammadans, they have got Shiya, Suni, Sek,(?) so many. In Hindus also, Vaiṣṇavas and Saktas and Sauras, Gaṇapatyas, so many. But Krṣṇa says that "All of them, seeking after Me." Mama vartmanuvartante partha sarvasaḥ;: "Everyone, they may go on under different religious systems, but the aim is how to approach Me." Vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyaḥ; [Bg. 15.15].

If you take... Veda means knowledge, scripture. Veda does not mean any particular scripture. Any scripture which gives knowledge of God, you can call it as Veda. Vedais ca sarvaiḥ;. If any book or any scripture or any book of knowledge does not give the information of God, that is not scripture because it cannot be called scripture, or Veda, because it does not search after the Supreme Being. Therefore Krṣṇa says, vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyaḥ; [Bg. 15.15]. Bahunaṁ janmanam ante jñanavan maṁ prapadyate, vasudevaḥ; sarvam iti [Bg. 7.19]. This is the ultimate goal of knowledge.

So you can call the Supreme Lord Krṣṇa or something else. Just like Muhammadans, they say "Allah." Allah means "the Supreme Being." Allah akbar. And the Christian says "God is great." And we say paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhama [Bg. 10.12], or Krṣṇa, all-attractive. But the aim is to understand Krṣṇa, that Krṣṇa personally appears so that your misgivings, misunderstandings may be mitigated immediately—"Here I am." The Krṣṇa consciousness movement is for this purpose, that "You religionists, you philosophers, you scientists, you speculators, you are all... theosophists, so many, you are searching after God, and here is God, Krṣṇa." But they are so unfortunate, they'll not accept it. "No, why shall I accept Krṣṇa as God?" Then why you shall not? That is our question. If you do not accept Krṣṇa as God, then you must know what is God. That, if I ask him, "Do you know what is God?" "That I do not know."

The same... Just like the scientist. He would propose that life is made by combination of chemicals, but when another scientist says, "Suppose I give you the chemicals. Can you produce life?" he will, the rascal will say, "That I cannot say." Similarly, they are rascals. We are presenting herewith, "Here is Krṣṇa. Take His address. Take His name. Take His father's name, mother's name, all identification, His activities, His glories, everything." Krṣṇa proves that He's the Supreme Personality of Godhead:

aisvaryasya samagrasya
viryasya yasasaḥ; sriyaḥ;
jñana-vairagyayos caiva
ṣaṇṇaṁ bhaga itiṅgana
(Viṣṇu Puraṇa 6.5.47)

Bhagavan. Bhagavan means the proprietor of all wealth, aisvarya, samagrasya. Not any limited amount, but samagra, everything. Krṣṇa says that. Bhoktaraṁ yajña..., sarva-loka-mahesvaram: [Bg. 5.29] "I am the proprietor of all the planets." Krṣṇa says that. So you check Him, that "How He is the proprietor of all the planets?" Therefore He showed Visvarupa, the universal form, how everything is within Him.

Everything is there. Arjuna wanted, requested Krṣṇa, that "How I can understand that You are the proprietor, You are the everything in the universe?" So He showed His universal form. Krṣṇa showed in every way to fulfill the proper definition of God, aisvaryasya samagrasya, proprietor of everything, and viryasya, the powerful. Nobody could kill Krṣṇa, but He killed so many demons, big, big demons. Therefore He's powerful. And His reputation? Still continuing, Krṣṇa. We are selling Krṣṇa book like anything. Why people are interested with Krṣṇa? Because He is reputed. People are seeing. The Krṣṇa consciousness movement is going on all over the world. This is yasaḥ;.

So when Krṣṇa was present, who could compete Him with His opulence? He had 16,108 wives, not loitering in the street, but each and every wife had big, big marble palaces, all marble palaces. Furniture with ivory, ivory and silk, and frames, all golden, garden with parijata, so many things. The... And not one palace, two palace. Sixteen thousand palaces. And Narada was surprised: "What Krṣṇa is doing with sixteen thousand wives?" In each and every palace he entered, and he saw Krṣṇa is engaged in different way. Somebody is taking care of the children; somebody... Somewhere He is arranging for the marriage of His son and daughter. Somewhere He is engaged in other sixteen thousand..., in the sixteen thousand palaces, in sixteen thousand engagements, and queens. So this is called opulence, aisvarya. Who can show this? And Krṣṇa showed it personally.

So in every way Krṣṇa proved the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Still, these rascals, they are searching after God. What is this nonsense? Here is God. You see that He is God in every respect according to the definition, and still, you say that "Where is God?" How much rascal they are, just imagine. Here is God, and still, they are enquiring, "What is God? Can you show me God?" What is this? Is it not rascaldom? What is this? If everything, proof is there, why they are searching after God? What is the answer? Where is the question of searching after God? Just answer this question. God is present here, and still, you are wasting your time. Therefore Krṣṇa says, muḍha. Muḍha. Na maṁ duṣkrtino muḍhaḥ; [Bg. 7.15]. Simply rascal. They cannot be given any other title except this one title, muḍhaḥ;. Why they remain muḍhaḥ;? Why are they are not intelligent? They are being educated in the universities, getting so many degrees. Still, they remain muḍhaḥ;. Why? Duṣkrtinaḥ;, sinful, engaged in sinful activities, these sinful activities. Yatra papas catur-vidha. Every one of them, all these rascals, are... They're engaged in four kinds of sinful activities. They'll search after illicit sex, they will eat meat, and they will drink and they will play gambling. Just one after a... You just study. They cannot understand God because they are muḍhaḥ;.

Why they are muḍhaḥ;? Because they are sinful. Why they are sinful? Because naradhamaḥ;, lowest of the mankind. Human form of life was given to him to become purified, but they are engaged in sinful activities so that next life they'll be cats and dogs and hogs and trees. Why trees? Trees stands naked. And now this nudie movement is there, how to remain naked. That means next life they are preparing for becoming tree: "Thousand years, stand up here, naked. Nobody will object." Yes, this is the law of nature. Prakrteḥ; kriyamaṇani guṇaiḥ; karmaṇi sarvasaḥ; [Bg. 3.27]. These rascals... Because the rascals, they do not know. And even the information is there, still, they'll not accept. This is their position.

So don't remain muḍhaḥ;. This is Krṣṇa consciousness movement. Krṣṇa consciousness movement is to educate people not to remain muḍhaḥ;. Be intelligent. It is a very nice cultural movement that it is trying to awaken people to their God consciousness. "Here is God." This is the sum and substance of Krṣṇa consciousness. And the process is also bona fide because Krṣṇa Himself is teaching the process. Krṣṇa, first of all, generally He told, sarva-dharman parityajya [Bg. 18.66], because this is the process. But because they are muḍhas, rascals and sinful, they could not understand. They could not understand. Therefore Krṣṇa came personally to teach people how to surrender. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Apani acari prabhu jivere sikhaya.

namo maha-vadanyaya
krṣṇa-prema-pradaya te
krṣṇaya krṣṇa-caitanya-
namne gaura-tviṣe namaḥ;
[Cc. Madhya 19.53]

Rupa Gosvami could understand that "Here is Krṣṇa, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu." Krṣṇaya. Now He is acting as Krṣṇa-caitanya. Krṣṇaya krṣṇa-caitanya-namne: "He has assumed the name of Krṣṇa-caitanya, but He is Krṣṇa Himself." And what He is doing? Because previously, as Krṣṇa, He simply ordered that "You surrender. Then you'll be purified and you'll be promoted." Now here, as Krṣṇa-caitanya, He is giving krṣṇa-prema. Krṣṇa-prema. Unless I understand you very thoroughly, how there can be love for you? Love is not so easy that simply by meeting, or one day's transaction, one becomes lover of other. No. It takes time. So in the Krṣṇa form, Krṣṇa, the Supreme Lord, He simply wanted that "You surrender; then you'll understand Me." But in the Caitanya Mahaprabhu, not only understanding Him, but one gets love of Krṣṇa, the highest stage. Therefore He is addressed as namo maha-vadanyaya, the topmost charitable personality. He is giving krṣṇa-prema.

So the process is there. And actually it is so happening all over the world. How the Christian priests are surprised that "These boys, these Christian boys or these Jewish boys, they never came to the church. They did not inquire even what is God. Now they have left everything and they are mad after God. How it is po... How it is?" Because we have adopted the process enunciated by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; therefore it has become easier. Otherwise, to understand Krṣṇa only, it will take millions of years, simply to understand Krṣṇa. And what to speak of becoming lover of Krṣṇa? If I do not understand you, I cannot become your lover. You... We cannot love an unknown person. Is it possible? You must know him. You must behave with him. You must study him. He will study you. Then there is question of love. But Krṣṇa-caitanya Mahaprabhu has given us such a nice process: ceto-darpaṇa-marjanam [Cc. Antya 20.12]. By chanting Hare Krṣṇa mantra, immediately...

Because we do not love Krṣṇa... We have got intimate relationship with Krṣṇa as part and parcel. It cannot be separated. It cannot be separated. But any way, some way or other, we have lost or forgotten that intimate relationship with Krṣṇa. Nitya-siddha krṣṇa-bhakti. That is nitya-siddha, eternally fact, that Krṣṇa loves us and we love. Krṣṇa loves. Therefore He comes personally. He comes as devotee to deliver us back to home, back to Godhead. Unless He loves, how it is possible? Krṣṇa is coming in so many ways. He is sending His devotee. He is leaving Bhagavad-gita for study to understand Krṣṇa. That is... Krṣṇa loves. Simply teaches that... Therefore Caitanya-caritamrta says that nitya-siddha krṣṇa-bhakti. This krṣṇa-bhakti, love of Krṣṇa, it is not something that artificially trained up. Artificial things...

Now these American and the European boys, they are after me. They are after this for the last six, seven years. Had it been an artificial thing, they could not stay. That is not possible. It is not artificial. It is already there, Krṣṇa. Krṣṇa-bhakti nitya-siddha. It is already there. By the process of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, I am simply trying to awaken that krṣṇa-bhakti. That's all. That is the duty of guru. Cakṣur unmilitaṁ yena. He opens the eyes, that "Why you have forgotten Krṣṇa? Here is Krṣṇa. You love Him. You'll be happy." This is guru's business. Not that he is giving artificially something which is known as krṣṇa-bhakti. Krṣṇa-bhakti's already there. Nitya-siddha krṣṇa-bhakti sadhya kabhu naya, sravaṇadi-suddha-citte. Simply by this process, hear about Krṣṇa. That we have introduced. In our so many centers this process is going on: hear about Krṣṇa, chant about Krṣṇa. Simply "Krṣṇa, Krṣṇa, Krṣṇa, Krṣṇa." Srṇvataṁ sva-kathaḥ; krṣṇaḥ; [SB 1.2.17]. Then Krṣṇa will help you.

So this is Krṣṇa. So the highest devotees, they..., Krṣṇa, they, Krṣṇa accepts because He is playing the part of human being. Avajananti maṁ muḍhaḥ; [Bg. 9.11]. Those who are muḍhas, they cannot understand, but those who are intelligent, they know that Krṣṇa is perfectly playing as a human being. As a human being takes birth in the womb of his father and mother by the father and mother, similarly, Krṣṇa also appeared, accepting Vasudeva as His father, Devaki as mother. But actually Krṣṇa is not born. That is being repeatedly explained by Kuntidevi, that apare, apare vasudevasya devakyam: "They say like that." What is that? Devaki-nandana... There is a verse, that "It is a saying only. Nobody can become Krṣṇa's father or mother, but they get the reputation as father and mother. That is a concession to the devotee." Therefore, Kuntidevi says, apare: "Others say like that." Somebody says like this; somebody says like that; somebody says like this. This is going on. But actually, Krṣṇa remains aja always. Because if we do not understand that Krṣṇa, what is Krṣṇa, then we'll misunderstand Him, that "He is also born. He is also born, so how He can become?" The Mayavadis say that "Krṣṇa is also having a body of the material body, maya. Therefore real spiritual identity (is) impersonal. As soon as He assumes the body, it is material." That is called Mayavada. "Maya. The Krṣṇa's body is maya. The ultimate Absolute is no body, impersonal." That is their theory. Therefore we call them Mayavadi.

But they do not actually know that ultimately the Absolute Truth is a person, the Supreme Person, Bhagavan. Brahmeti paramatmeti bhagavan iti sabdyate. Vadanti tat tattva-vidas, tattva-vidaḥ; [SB 1.2.11]. Tattva means one who knows tattva. They know that ultimately the Absolute Truth is person, not imperson. Therefore Bhagavata says, vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattvam [SB 1.2.11]. What is the Absolute Truth? Absolute Truth means tattvam. So Bhagavata says, vadanti tat tattva-vidaḥ;: "Those who are aware of the Absolute Truth, they say like this." What is that? Brahmeti... Yad, yaj jñanam advayam. Advayam: "He is without any duality, but the Absolute Truth is known as in three features: by somebody as Brahman, by somebody as Paramatma, and somebody as Bhagavan."

Actually He is Bhagavan. Paramatma is His universal feature.

eko 'py asau racayituṁ jagad-aṇḍa-koṭiṁ
yac-chaktir asti jagad-aṇḍa-caya yad-antaḥ;
aṇḍantara-stha-paramaṇu-cayantara-sthaṁ
govindam adi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajami
[Bs. 5.35]

Eko 'py asau, only one portion. That is also confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita, athava bahunaitena kiṁ jñatena tavarjuna, viṣṭabhyaham... [break] ...this universe is only one only. That also, we cannot estimate what is the length and breadth, how many planets are there, and still, we are proud of becoming God. But God creates such millions of universes. Eko 'py asau racayituṁ jagad-aṇḍa-koṭim. Koṭi, million. Yac-chaktir asti jagad-aṇḍa-caya yad-antaḥ;. He is creating, and everywhere He is present. How He is present? Aṇḍantara-stha. He's present within the universe and within the heart of all living entities, even within the atom. Aṇḍantara-stha-paramaṇu-cayantara... That is Krṣṇa. That is only by His one part. Govindam adi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajami **.

So such Govinda has become the son of Vasudeva and Devaki. So how it is possible? And therefore the devotee is so great that although Krṣṇa, or God, is so great that by His one portion He can create the innumerable universes, He enters into the womb of Devaki and comes out as her son. This is Krṣṇa's grace. You see. He can make His devotee so great that the greater than the greatest is coming out of the womb of Devaki. So apare vasudevasya devakyam. And why He agreed? Yacitaḥ;, yacitaḥ;: "requested." Requested as Sutapa and Prsni. Vasudeva was Prsni in his former life, and Devaki was Sutapa. Sutapa. Sutapa means one who can perform austerities and penance very nicely. Su means nicely, and tapaḥ;. So they underwent austerities and penance to get a son like Krṣṇa.

So when Krṣṇa was pleased with their tapasya, they wanted: "My Lord, we want a, a son like You." "So where is like Me?" Krṣṇa is asamordhva. There is nobody equal to Krṣṇa; nobody is greater than... Otherwise, how He can be great? If somebody is greater than Him, then how He can be great? Nobody can be greater than Him. That is greatness, either you say in English language or Muhammadan language. Allah akbar: "Allah, the Supreme Being, is the great." We also say, paraṁ brahma. So nobody can be greater than Him or equal. Asamordhva. So they wanted "a son like You." That means somebody must be equal to Him. "Like You" means equal to Him. So who can be equal to Krṣṇa? But He can expand Himself with many equals. Advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam [Bs. 5.33]. Krṣṇa can expand Himself in millions' and millions' forms. Goloka eva nivasaty akhilatma-bhutaḥ; [Bs. 5.37]. Everything is there. Although He is living in Goloka, still, by His omnipotency, omnipresence, He can be everywhere. Aṇḍantara-stha-paramaṇu-ca... So that Paramatma, or the Supersoul, is equal with Krṣṇa. Not anything else equal with Krṣṇa, but the Paramatma is equal with Krṣṇa. Therefore by His expansion, He agreed to become son of Devaki, and there may be hundreds and thousands of Devaki, devotees. He is unlimited. His devotees are unlimited. Their demands are unlimited.

So everything is Krṣṇa's unlimited. So therefore all-unlimited means Krṣṇa, all-attractive. That is the real name of God, if God can be given one name. Because God has no name, but His names are given according to His activities. Then how to concentrate in one name? That one name is Krṣṇa, all-attractive. That is the real name of Krṣṇa.

Thank you very much. Hare Krṣṇa. (end)

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