In the Vedic language it is said asamordhva. Asama. Asama means "no equal." Nobody is equal. Urdhva. Urdhva means "greater." Asamordhva. In the Bhagavad-gītā also this language is used. Nobody is equal or greater than God. That is God. You study from one creature to another, another, another, another, another, another, from beginning from the microbic ant, which is just like full stop, and go on, go on, go up to Brahmā, whose life duration I just told you, four hundred thousands of years, or five thousands of years multiplied by one thousand equal to one day of Brahmā.
He also lives in such way one hundred years. He lives one hundred years, I live one hundred years, the ant lives one hundred years. But this one hundred years are relative. We cannot say that ant’s one hundred years and my hundred years and Brahmā’s a hundred years is the same. The speed, the body, the calculation, they are all different, all different.
So "God is great" means there are different grades of living entities, and the supreme living entity of whom there is no equal or greater is God. He is God. But the rascals, they are thinking, "I am God." But this is the definition in every religion—either Christian religion or Hindu religion—that God is great.
The Sanskrit language they say brahma. Brahma means "the greatest." Brahma, "the greatest." The Supreme Absolute Personality of Godhead is called Parabrahma. Parabrahma means . . . para means the Supreme, and brahma. We are all brahma. Brahma means spirit soul. You are brahma, I am brahma, everyone. Or you can say we are all God. But the greatest God is different. He is different. That is Kṛṣṇa.
That is confirmed in the Vedic language, that īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ (Bs. 5.1): "Everyone is God."
Accept it. All right. But paramaḥ—paramaḥ means the Supreme, of whom there is no equal and no greater. That is called paramaḥ. Paramaḥīśvaraḥ, the Supreme God, is Kṛṣṇa. Īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ.
Īśvaraḥ means God, or controller. So everyone is controller to his limited extent. The ant is also controller, a grain of sugar. You are also controller; you have got limited sphere of controlling. Either you are controlling your children, or in office you are controlling some clerks, or in factory you are controlling some worker, or the President of United States is controlling the whole population, citizens of United States.
Similarly, this controller, one after another, go on, study, study. There are other demigods, they are also controller. Just like in the heavenly planet, Indraloka, he is controlling the sky, water supply, of the planet. So similarly, different grades of controller. You cannot say that there is one kind of controller. Different grades of controller. And when you find the supreme controller, that is God.