Prabhupada, Mayapur, February 29, 1976: […] We see this sun so big, fourteen hundred thousand times bigger than this earth, and you see morning, how quickly it gets up, like this, immediately. The speed is sixteen thousand miles per second. So how it is being happenend?
Yasyajnaya bhramati sambhrta-kala-cakro govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhaja… It is being done under the order of Govinda. So therefore He’s vibhu. He is great. But we do not know how great He is. Therefore we foolishly accept some pretender, some fraud, as God. We do not know what is the meaning of God. But it is going on. We are fools. Andha yathandair upaniyamanas. We are blind, and another blind man lead us: “I am God. You are God. Everyone is God.” But God is not like that.
Here it is said that God is He who… Kalo vasi-krta-visrjya-visarga- saktih: “He keeps control over the time factor and the creative energy.” That is God. God is not so cheap that you’ll find here and there. God is everywhere. That’s a fact. But that is partial manifestation of His material energy. This is… Ekamsena sthito jagat.
athava bahunaitena kim jnatena tavarjuna vistabhya aham… ekamsena sthito jagat
He’s there. Andantara-stham paramanu-cayantara-stham. He is within the atom. So when the same God, sa tvam, He comes, the foolish persons, they think that “Krishna is like one of us.” No. Avajananti mam mudha. One who thinks like that, that “Krishna is one of us. He is like a human being, like me or you,” he is mudha. Param bhavam ajananto. He does not know what are the activities of God, what He can do, what He can undo.
So anyway, if by reading all these literatures, explanation, given by God Himself, we come to our senses that He is so great and so merciful, then it becomes possible to surrender unto Him. So for a fortunate person it takes even a second, because God Himself says,
sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja aham tvam sarva-papebhyo moksayisyami… [Bg. 18.66]
So if one is intelligent, he takes immediately: “Oh, it is so nice. He’ll give me all protection? Let me surrender.” Business finished in one second.
Full Lecture: http://prabhupadabooks.com/classes/sb/7/9/22/mayapur/february/29/1976
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