Prabhupāda: So God is situated with me. I am also within this body, God is also within this body. Find out this verse: īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati.
Devotee: 18.58?
Yogeśvara: 18.61.
- īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ
- hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati
- bhrāmayan sarva-bhūtāni
- yantrārūḍhāni māyayā
- (BG 18.61)
(reads translation in French)
Prabhupāda: Purport.
Yogeśvara: (reads purport in French)
Prabhupāda: So the God, He is also with me always as friend. So one . . . it is said in the Upaniṣad, there are two birds in one tree. The two birds means I, individual soul, and God, the Supreme Soul. The individual soul is limited within this body, and God is everywhere: in every body, in every atomic particle, everywhere. Because I am individual soul, I can understand my bodily pains and pleasure. But I cannot understand your bodily pains and pleasure. But God, being all-pervading, He can understand my pains and pleasure, He can understand your pains and pleasure, He can understand cats' and dogs' pains and . . . everyone. This is the difference between me and God. Sometimes they mistake. Because God is also within this body, I am also within this body, therefore they think that there is no other individual soul than God; therefore I am God. So if I am God, then you are also God. And if there is more than one God, there is not God. God is one. There cannot be two. So if I think I am God, then everyone is also God—so God becomes plural, so there is not God. God is one. Therefore God is great, we are small. In quality we are one. Just like the president and the citizen, as man they are one, but in power, the citizen and the president, they are different. So these things can be understood if one is sober and very great thinker: they can understand that, "God is situated with me. He can help me also." That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā:
- teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ
- bhajatāṁ prīti-pūrvakam
- buddhi-yogaṁ dadāmi taṁ
- yena mām upayānti te
- (BG 10.10)
Yogeśvara:
- teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ
- bhajatāṁ prīti-pūrvakam
- dadāmi buddhi-yogaṁ taṁ
- yena mām upayānti te
- (BG 10.10)
(reads French translation)
Prabhupāda: Purport.
Yogeśvara: (reads purport in French. Prabhupāda asks people outside room to stop talking twice during reading)
Prabhupāda: So if we accept this process and advance in devotional service, then God will talk with us. He is with us, every one of us, and He is guiding us, but He gives directly guiding to the devotee. This is practical solution. If you become devotee, God will talk with you and give you direct instruction. (pause) Any question?
Yogeśvara: (translating) This lady asks when one is too old and with too many responsibilities, what can one do?
Prabhupāda: There is no responsibilities—all false, māyā. Everyone is maintained by God. It is our false conception that I am giving protection to anybody. That is false. Just like a man is diseased and we are giving help, medical help, first-class physician, first-class medicine—still he dies. So if God desires that this man must die now, your medical help or physician help will not act. And if God desires that this man must live, then even without your medical help and physician, he will live. Then where is your responsibility?