How to See Krishna Everywhere

Krishna is actually present everywhere. But because our eyes are presently covered by lust, greed, anger, madness, illusion, and envy we cannot see Him. We instead see the covering curtain of His material energy. Since His energy is also Him we are in fact seeing Him when we perceive His material energy. But this is not His pleasing form. This can be compared to a small child who always enjoys a sweet, affectionate relationship with his father. One day his father, who happens to a soldier, comes home wearing his full battle gear. This causes the child fear and anxiety. Our situation is like that. Instead of seeing the original form of the Lord, which is so sweet and beautiful, we are seeing His fearsome aspect as the all-devouring material energy. If we chant the Lord's holy names regularly with love and devotion and give up our sinfulness, the above-mentioned coverings which are completely clouding our consciousness will gradually be washed away, and we will once again perceive our most merciful Lord Sri Krishna in His original all-attractive form.

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version

Objection: The Soul Has Formless Form

The soul cannot have a human form. The soul has a formless form-one of infinite beauty, purity and love. The human form is made of atoms and molecules. The soul is not made of atoms and molecules. I know this by experience- yoga samadhi.

Please forgive me if I misinterpreted you. I am ready to be corrected.

Divya P.

Answer: There's No Such Thing as a Formless Form

Thank you very much for your humble mood of being willing to be corrected. Although I see that you are very sincere, there is a mistake in your understanding, which I humbly beg to be allowed to point out to you.

There is no such thing as a formless form. Everything that exists has a form. You have mentioned that the soul has infinite beauty. Beauty means a beautiful form. If I tried you to sell you a painting called "The Form of Infinite Beauty" as illustrated below, would you purchase it?

The Form of Infinite Beauty

The above so-called beautiful painting is nothing but an empty canvas. If you accepted it as a great work of art and paid handsomely for it, you would certainly be grossly cheated. It is very clear from the above example that for beauty to exist, there must be form. Just as it is foolish to say that the empty canvas is beautiful, it is also foolish to say that a formless soul has infinite beauty.

The human form that you are referring to, composed of atoms and molecules, is not the real form of the living being. It is simply a covering, just like a glove that covers a hand. The glove has a form to match the hand's form. Similarly the human body is a covering of the actual form that lies within. The human body has a form which matches or replicates the actual form of the living being who dwells within. At the present moment in our conditioned state of consciousness the human-like form of the soul is in a dormant state like a seed, with the size of one ten thousandth the tip of a hair, seated within the heart of the body. When the living being becomes fully spiritually awakened from within that seed the full spiritual form of the living being will come out.

There is a type of yoga samadhi in which one realizes the formless nature of the Supreme. But this formlessness is only a conception for the neophyte transcendentalists to help them become free from their attachment to the temporary forms of this world. When the transcendentalist become mature in his realization he understands and experiences personally the transcendental form of the God and he also realizes that all living being have eternal spiritual forms.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari