Cooperate With Devotees
Since time immemorial when each of us fell into this material world we've all maintained a stubborn, non-cooperative, independent mood. This is why we remain stuck here in the cycle of birth and death. We do not want to cooperate with Krishna and His devotees. This is just the opposite of the wonderful cooperative mood that is going on eternally in the spiritual world. The beauty of the Krishna consciousness movement is that it affords us the opportunity to lay aside our tendency towards independence and work together cooperatively with the ISKCON devotees to make Lord Caitanya's movement a grand success. This will empower us to awaken our dormant Krishna consciousness and also to awaken the dormant Krishna consciousness that is presently sleeping within the hearts of all the fallen, conditioned souls of this world.
āsīno dῡraṁ vrajati, śayāno yāti sarvataḥ:
kastam madāmadaṁ devam mad anyo jñātum arharti
“Sitting, He moves to all distances. Lying down in one place, He goes everywhere. Except to the blessed ones, like me, who has access to Him, He is not known, this God of gods who enjoys and yet does not enjoy, who is the subject as well as the object, who is within and without.”
I do not understand the expression "Lying down in one place, He goes everywhere." What does it mean? Why do the Upanishads describe the Lord by such contradictions?
Your servant,
Parama-udara das
"The Supreme Truth exists outside and inside of all living beings, the moving and the nonmoving. Because He is subtle, He is beyond the power of the material senses to see or to know. Although far, far away, He is also near to all."
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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Question: Can Krishna Be Both in One Place and Everywhere?
Reading Katha-Upanishad, I encounter lines that describe the Lord in a contradictory manner. For instance, the verse 1.2.21:āsīno dῡraṁ vrajati, śayāno yāti sarvataḥ:
kastam madāmadaṁ devam mad anyo jñātum arharti
“Sitting, He moves to all distances. Lying down in one place, He goes everywhere. Except to the blessed ones, like me, who has access to Him, He is not known, this God of gods who enjoys and yet does not enjoy, who is the subject as well as the object, who is within and without.”
I do not understand the expression "Lying down in one place, He goes everywhere." What does it mean? Why do the Upanishads describe the Lord by such contradictions?
Your servant,
Parama-udara das
Answer: That is His Absolute Omnipotency.
Krishna can be localized in one place doing a particular activity and at the same time be everything doing an infinity of things. This is His inconceivable omnipotency. His ability to do this is also confirmed in Bhagavad-gita 13.16 as follows:"The Supreme Truth exists outside and inside of all living beings, the moving and the nonmoving. Because He is subtle, He is beyond the power of the material senses to see or to know. Although far, far away, He is also near to all."
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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