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Prabhupada, Bombay, February 23, 1974: […] So even if you are not inclined to chant Hare Krishna maha-mantra, then try to understand Krishna in this way. This is the process given by Sri Krishna Himself. Raso ’ham apsu kaunteya. You have to drink water; you cannot avoid it. So when you taste, while drinking water, anything drinking…apsu. Apsu means any liquid thing.
Either you drink milk or even up to, even you drink wine, so you have got some taste in any liquid thing while drinking. So Krishna says, raso ’ham apsu kaunteya. “My dear Kaunteya, Arjuna, that taste in the liquid thing which you drink or use, that is I am.”
Just see how it is easily can be done. Nobody is without drinking something liquid. Either Coca-cola or water or this or that, something must be drinking. So Krishna says that “I am the taste.” So where is the difficulty of understanding Krishna? If we cannot… They say, “Can you show me Krishna?”
All right, here is Krishna, see. Seeing means directly perception. When I say, “Let me see what is this mango,” you are seeing already. Here seeing means tasting. “Let me see the mango.” That means seeing means tasting.
So we have got so many senses. And we taste different senses. We can see by eyes. We can taste by the tongue. We can hear by the ear. We can smell by the nose. We can touch by the hand. So we have got all senses. And by senses we get experience.
So if you try to experience Krishna by this process, that whenever you drink something liquid and taste it very nicely, you consider “This taste is Krishna,” is it very difficult for Krishna realization? And because you’ll remember Krishna… Actually that taste is Krishna. Because that water is also Krishna. Water is Krishna in this sense: the energy of Krishna. Full Lecture
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