Who can worship Kṛṣṇa? That is described here, that budhā. Budhā means most intelligent person. Bodha. Bodha means knowledge, and budhā means one who is wise, full of knowledge. Everyone is after knowledge. Here you have got this Washington University. There are many students. They have come here to acquire knowledge. So one who has acquired the perfection of knowledge or the highest platform of knowledge, he is called budhā.
So not only budhā but bhāva-samanvitāḥ. Bhāva means ecstasy. One must be very learned and wise, at the same time he must feel ecstasy spiritually. "Such person," Kṛṣṇa says, iti matvā bhajante mām: "Such persons worships Me or loves Me." One who is very intelligent and one who is transcendentally very full of ecstasy, such person loves Kṛṣṇa or worships Kṛṣṇa. Why? Because iti matvā, "by understanding this." What is this? Now, ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo (BG 10.8), "I am the origin of everything," sarvasya. Anything you bring, that is, if you go on, search out, then you will find ultimately it is Kṛṣṇa.
The Vedānta also says the same thing. What is Brahman? Athāto brahma jijñāsā. This life, this human life . . . we have now . . . in other life we have enjoyed sense pleasure to the fullest extent. What we can enjoy in this human life? In other life . . . of course, according to Darwin's theory, just prior to this human life there was monkey life.
So the monkey—you have no experience; in India we have got experience—each and every monkey has got at least hundred girls with him. Hundred, one hundred. So what we are able to enjoy? Every, each, they have got party, and each party, one monkey has got a least fifty, sixty, not less than twenty-five. So a hog's life, they have got also dozens of. Dozens. And they have no distinction, "Who is my mother, who is my sister, who is my relative." You see? So they're enjoying.
So do you mean to say that human life is meant like that—like monkeys and hogs and cats and dogs? Is that perfection of human life, to satisfy sense gratification? No. That we have enjoyed in various forms of life. Now, the Vedānta says, athāto brahma jijñāsā. This life is for inquiring and understanding Brahman. What is that Brahman? Īśvaraḥ paramaḥ brahma or parama . . . īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ (Bs. 5.1).
And Kṛṣṇa is Para-brahma. Brahman, we are all Brahman, but He is Para-brahman, the Supreme Brahman. Īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ. Just like you are all Americans, but your President Johnson is the supreme American. That is natural. Vedas says that the supreme of everyone is God. Nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām (Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13).
Who is God? That He is the most perfect eternal, He is the most perfect living force. That is God.
Eko bahūnāṁ vidadhāti kāmān. Eko bahūnāṁ vidadhāti kāmān (Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13). The meaning is that one living force is supplying all the demands of all other living entities. Just like in a family the father is supplying the necessities of the wife, the children, the servant, a small family.
Similarly, you expand it—the government or the state or the king is supplying the necessities of all the citizens. But everything is incomplete. Everything is incomplete. You can supply your family, you can supply your society, you can supply your country, but you cannot supply everyone.
But there are millions and trillions of living entities. Who is supplying food? Who is supplying hundreds and thousands of ants within the hole in your room? Who is supplying food? When you go to the green lake there are thousands of ducks. Who is taking care of them? But they are living. There are millions of sparrows, birds, beasts, elephants.
At one time he eats hundred pounds. Who is supplying food? Not only here, but there are many millions and trillions of planets and universes everywhere. That is God. Nityo nityānām eko bahūnāṁ vidadhāti kāmān. Everyone is dependent on Him, and He is supplying all the necessities. All the necessities. Everything complete. Just like this planet, everything is complete.
- pūrṇam idaṁ pūrṇam adaḥ
- pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate
- pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya
- pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate
- (Īśo Invocation)
Every planet is so made that it is complete in itself. The water is there, reserved in the seas and oceans. That water is taken away by the sunshine. Not only here, in other planets also, the same process is going on. It is transformed into cloud, then distributed all over the land, and there is growing of vegetables, fruits and plants, everything.
So everything is complete arrangement. That we have to understand, that who has made this complete arrangement. Everywhere, the sun is rising in due time, the moon is rising in due time, the seasons are changing in due time. So how you can say? There is evidence in the Vedas there is God. In every scripture, every great personality, devotee, representative of God . . .
Just like Lord Jesus Christ, he gave information of God. Although he was crucified, he never changed his opinion. So we have evidences from scripture, from Vedas, from great personality, still, if I say: "God is dead. There is no God," then what kind of man I am? This is called demon. They'll never believe it.