“Sun is so powerful that for Millions and Millions of Years it is giving its Energy”

Prabhupada, Melbourne, April 23, 1976: How God is expanded everywhere, you can take this example. The sun is away from us, according to the scientists calculation, 93,000,000 miles away. And immediately, within a second, his sunshine is expanded all over the universe. Immediately. At least 93,000,000’s of miles. Within a second.

So if it is possible by ordinary material thing—Krishna, God, is full spiritual—how much spiritually powerful He is, that He can expand Himself all over the universes? This is called thoughtful consideration. So Krishna… When Krishna says, maya tatam idam sarvam, “I am expanded everywhere,” where is the difficulty to understand? There is no difficulty—if we are sane person. If we can see that “In one universe there is one sun and the sun is so powerful, it is a material thing, and there are innumerable universes and there are innumerable suns. One who has created these suns, how much powerful He is”, this is the calculation, common sense. If one sun, which is material, if it is so powerful that for millions and millions of years it is giving its energy, heat and light—still, it is so bright and powerful and temperature is so high—how much powerful temperature is of God, you can just imagine.

So when He said, maya tatam idam sarvam, it is not a false pride. It is fact. Simply we must have brain to understand. Maya tatam idam sarvam. Every particle, every atom, there is presence of God. That is stated in the sastra. Andantara-stha-paramanu-cayantara-stham. Paramanu means the atom. God is within the atom. So God is within you also. God is outside; God is within. Outside, as we see these five elements… What are these five elements? The same thing, expansion of God’s energy. Just like we practically see scientifically, the sunshine is the cause of this universe. Within the sunshine all the planets have grown, and in each and every planet, due to the sunshine the vegetables are growing. There are leaves. When there is no sunshine the leaf falls down. As soon as the sunshine is there the colorful fruits and flowers and leaves come out. Everything is due to the sunshine.

Similarly, the supreme sun is Krishna. Yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti [Bs. 5.40]. He has got… Just like the sun has shining, similarly—try to understand—God has got His effulgence, bodily shining. That is called brahmajyoti. When the brahmajyoti is there innumerable universes are generated. Therefore he is cause of all creation. It doesn’t require to manufacture each and every universe. He is so powerful that in His effulgence, in His shining, innumerable universes are created. Yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti-kotisv asesa-vasudhadi-vibhuti-bhinnam [Bs. 5.40]. In each universe there are many millions and millions of stars and planets.

These are the description in the Vedic literature. So we have to learn. You cannot by your tiny effort with limited power, limited sense, I mean to say, perception, you cannot speculate. You have to understand from authoritative statements. That is called Veda. Vedas means knowledge which is perfect knowledge and if you study Vedas, then you get perfect knowledge of everything. And the cream of the Vedic knowledge is here in the Bhagavad-gita. So if you read Bhagavad-gita carefully, then you get all the knowledge very perfectly.