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I have lost my youthful energy. But God is always youthful

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"I have lost my youthful energy |But God is always youthful"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1973 Conversations and Morning Walks

Here is the God—full energy. There is no loss of energy. That is God. Our energy is lost. Just like I have lost my youthful energy, so God is not like that. That is the difference between God and me. I cannot walk so swiftly or eat more, or so many other things as a young man can do. Because I have lost my youthful energy. But God is always youthful.


Morning Walk -- December 10, 1973, Los Angeles:

Prabhupāda: God, by His . . . here, just like energy, the petrol energy is now being finished. Finished. But what is the petrol there in the sun? It is never finished. But this is also material. So find out what, what is that source of . . . now, after hundred years, your stock is finished now. There is problem now, how to drive your motorcar. But here, the sun, aśeṣa-tejāḥ. Aśeṣa-tejāḥ. The moon is giving light.

Nobody can calculate from where the moon is situated, created, and it is spreading light, the sun is . . . light is there. It is material. You find out. Therefore it is called parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate (Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 6.8, CC Madhya 13.65, purport). His energy is unlimited. He can create millions of sun. He has already done it. But still, He's the same. Nothing is lost in His energy. That is God. That is acintya-śakti. Here you have got some money. You spend it. Next day it is all zero. So God never becomes zero. That is God. These rascals, they say ultimate truth is zero, śūnyavāda. They do not know. God is never zero. He's always positive.

So you must have a clear idea of God, you theologician. You take all these ideas from Vedic description. Don't be misled by fools and rascals. Here is the God—full energy. There is no loss of energy. That is God. Our energy is lost, just like I have lost my youthful energy. So God is not like that. That is the difference between God and me. I cannot walk so swiftly or eat more, or so many other things as a young man can do, because I have lost my youthful energy.

But God is always youthful. Advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam ādyaṁ purāṇa-puruṣaṁ nava-yauvanaṁ ca (Bs. 5.33). This is definition of God, that He's the oldest person. Because He's the original person, He must be the oldest. But nava-yauvanaṁ ca, but He's always youthful. That is God. Advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam. He has got millions and millions . . . just like īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe . . . (BG 18.61). He's staying within the atom, within your heart and everywhere. But still, He's one. That is God. Advaitam acyutam. Advaita means without any duality. Not that because He's living within your heart and within my heart, these two personalities are different. No. They are one. Therefore Bhagavad-gītā, yo māṁ paśyati sarvatra (BG 6.30). One who can see that although God is everywhere, even within the atom, but still, He's one—that is vision of God.

Page Title:I have lost my youthful energy. But God is always youthful
Compiler:Visnu Murti
Created:24 of Sep, 2010
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=1, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1