The Sound of the Airplane and Light of the Sun Are Krishna

In a lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam, First Canto, Chapter 3, Text 29 given in Los Angeles on October 4, 1972 Srila Prabhupada wonderfully reveals to us how see Krishna everywhere:

God is everywhere. Simply you require to purify your eyes to see God. Otherwise God is everywhere. It is not that God has to be searched out some long, long... He's in... Of course, His real abode is long, long distant, but still, He is within your heart.

Īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati
[Bhagvad-gita 18.61]
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So to purify the eyes we require... That is meditation, how to search out. He is within my heart. Anywhere you sit down, you can see God, provided you have got the eyes to see.

Premāñjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena
santaḥ sadaiva hṛdayeṣu vilokayanti
[Brahma-Samhita 5.38].

Those who are saintly persons, they are twenty-four hours seeing God. They have nothing, no other business than to see God. But they have got eyes to see. That is the difference. Ordinary persons, they have no eyes. Therefore they cannot see God. But those who have developed consciousness, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, purified eyes, they can see always, twenty-four hours. They don't see anything else except God. Because God is everything. Whatever we see, if we have two eyes to see, then we can see God in every second, every moment. How? Oh, that you can practice.
In the Bhagavad-gītā it is said

raso 'ham apsu kaunteya: "I am the taste of water."
[Bhagavd-gita 7.8]

Now, you are drinking water hundreds times. So as soon as you taste water, how nice it is, you can immediately see God, Kṛṣṇa, "Oh, here is Kṛṣṇa. Here is Kṛṣṇa." So how do you say that "Can you show me Kṛṣṇa?" You can see. Here is the process. You adopt it. You taste water, and when you enjoy the taste, that taste is Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa says, "I am this taste." Then where is the difficulty to see Kṛṣṇa? There is no difficulty. The people say, "Can you show me God?" God is everywhere, in every moment, in every step. You do not like to see Him. That is the difficulty.

Raso 'ham apsu kaunteya prabhāsmi śaśi-sūryayoḥ.
"I am the sunshine and moonshine."

Who has not seen sunshine? Everyone has seen. From the very morning, we see sunshine, and at night also, when there is darkness, there is no sun, we see moonshine. So sunshine, moonshine—Kṛṣṇa says, prabhāsmi śaśi-sūryayoḥ. So as soon as I see the sunshine and moonshine, I see God. What is the difficulty?

Śabdaḥ khe. When there is some sound, rumbling sound in the sky, khe... Khe means sky. Kṛṣṇa says, "I am the sound." So as soon as you hear even the sound of airplane, that is also God.

Puṇyo gandhaḥ pṛthivyāṁ ca. When you smell a nice flower, that smell is Kṛṣṇa. So you can remember immediately Kṛṣṇa.

So to remember Kṛṣṇa, there are so many opportunities. But we don't want to remember Kṛṣṇa. That is the difficulty. Therefore it is said that janma guhyam bhagavataḥ. Janma, God's appearance. God is appearing every moment everywhere. Here is just in front, Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. Personally He is present. But others will see a stone, because he has not purified his eyes. And Caitanya Mahāprabhu, as soon as He sees, He fells down immediately, unconscious: "Oh, here is my Lord." So you have to purify to see God. God is present everywhere. You haven't to ask anybody, "Can you show me God? Have you seen God?" These questions sometimes made. And where is the difficulty to see God? You don't like to see God. That is the difficulty. Otherwise there is no difficulty.

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Let us carefully always follow Srila Prabhupada's most sublime and enlightening instructions and thus always see Krishna everywhere!

Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom

Question: Isn't Everything One?

Why did Srila Prabhupad write "The materialist and foolish beings worship Brahma and Shiva respectively"? Lord Vishnu, Shiva and Brahma are all one. Why did he say this about the other two Lords? Isn't everything part of the Brahman?

Vish Thaker

Answer: One and Different Simultaneously

Everything is Brahman, but still within Brahman there are distinctions. For example there is the complete Brahman and also the part of parcel of Brahman. Just like your body. Your body is one, but within your body there are various distinctions. The hand puts the food in and stomach digests the food. So within oneness there is also simultaneous variegatedness. This is the philosophy known as acintya-bhedabheda tattva, “The Absolute Truth is simultaneously, inconceivably one and different.”

Sankarshan Das Adhikari​


Sankarshan Das Adhikari is one of the spiritual masters of the worldwide Hare Krishna Movement. He has dedicated the last 50 years of his life for bringing a spiritual revolution to planet earth by spreading the teachings of Lord Sri Krishna all over the world. He is based in Austin, Texas and when there is no pandemic he regularly travels all over the world teaching his audiences how to attain Krishna consciousness, the highest stage of spiritual awakening. He is available for media interviews and to speak to groups and organizations either in person or via the internet.