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Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is compared with the sun: krsna - surya-sama; maya haya andhakara (CC Madhya 22.31). And our this darkness is a maya, because actually there is no darkness

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"Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is compared with the sun: kṛṣṇa—sūrya-sama; māyā haya andhakāra" |"And our this darkness is a māyā, because actually there is no darkness"

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is compared with the sun: krsna - surya-sama; maya haya andhakara (CC Madhya 22.31). And our this darkness is a maya, because actually there is no darkness. The sun is always there, but on account of position of the earth, we are thinking this is night, this is day. In the material creation the sun, in the biggest of all planets, there is no such thing as maya, or night. So why Krsna would have maya?


Pradyumna: Translation: "The Blessed Lord said: Many, many births both you and I have passed. I can remember all of them, but you cannot, O subduer of the enemy!"

Prabhupāda: So, bhagavān uvāca. The Supreme Personality of Godhead says the distinction between God and the living entities. The rascal philosophers, they think that they are equal to God, but God does not say that, "You are equal to Me." Where does He say? God says, mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat (BG 7.7): "There is nobody superior than Me or equal to Me." Therefore His name is Asamordhva, "Nobody is equal nor higher than Me." Therefore God is there; that is the meaning of God is there. If God has anyone equal to Him or greater than Him, then what kind of God He is? Ask these rascals' God, the so-called God, "Do you think if anyone is equal or higher than you?" If he says: "Nobody is higher than me," then anyone can insulted him, anyone can arrest him. How he can say that nobody is higher than him? So therefore, particularly, particularly the word Bhagavān, nobody can be equal or greater than the Supreme Person, and foolish persons should be kept as absolute, not relative. He says: "Arjuna, the difference between you and Me—that you forget, I do not forget." That is it.

God knows past, future and present—everything. Just like the sun is there in the sky, and this earthly planet is here. So the earthly planet is rotating, and the sun is there on the head of the earthly planet. So our, this rotating means day and night, but the sun planet has no day and night; no past, present or future—everything is present. It is a commonsense example: the sun planet is rotating where it is. The sun is back side it is night, and the front side it is day—so day and night for us, not for the sun. Similarly, Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is compared with the sun: kṛṣṇa—sūrya-sama; māyā haya andhakāra (CC Madhya 22.31). And our this darkness is a māyā, because actually there is no darkness. The sun is always there, but on account of position of the earth, we are thinking this is night, this is day. In the material creation the sun, is the biggest of all planets, there is no such thing as māyā, or night. So why Kṛṣṇa will have māyā?

But this Māyāvadi says that when God comes, He also takes the material body. That is called Māyāvāda. But God does not say. He says, sambhavāmy ātma-māyayā (BG 4.6), "By My own spiritual potency," not by the force of material potency. Because we accept this body by force.

Page Title:Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is compared with the sun: krsna - surya-sama; maya haya andhakara (CC Madhya 22.31). And our this darkness is a maya, because actually there is no darkness
Compiler:Ratnavali
Created:2015-12-17, 10:45:57
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
No. of Quotes:1