You can understand what is our relationship with Kṛṣṇa, or God. We are small. We are atomic small, and Kṛṣṇa is unlimitedly great. That is the difference. Otherwise, so far quality is concerned, Kṛṣṇa and ourself, the same. As the parts and parcel of Kṛṣṇa, if we live always with Kṛṣṇa, then we are in spiritual life. If we always live in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that in spite of our living in this material world we are called jīvan mukta, "liberated in this material condition." Jīvan mukta. He hasn’t got to die and take liberation. Even in this life he is liberated. That is also confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā:
- māṁ ca 'vyabhicāriṇi-
- bhakti-yogena yaḥ sevate
- sa guṇān samatītyaitān
- brahma-bhūyāya kalpate
- (BG 14.26)
He is already Brahman-realized. Kṛṣṇa says: "Anyone who is engaged in My devotional service, avyabhicāriṇi, without any deviation, twenty-four hours," as we are teaching these boys and girls . . . this function is meant for engaging them there twenty-four hours in Kṛṣṇa's business. They are going to outside for securing advertisement. It may seem equal that another man has got to secure advertisement and they have also got securing advertisement, but there is gulf of difference. They have gone for Kṛṣṇa, and others, they have gone for sense gratification. That is the difference.
In this way you can mold your life in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, twenty-four hours engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and you live in brahma-bhūtaḥ. You haven't got to try for becoming brahma-bhūtaḥ or you have to realize Brahman separately. You are already in brahma-bhūtaḥ stage. Sa guṇan samatītyaitān brahma-bhūyāya kalpate. Brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati na kāṅkṣati (BG 18.54). These statements are in the Bhagavad-gītā.
So in the Bhagavad-gītā it is taught what is God, what is nature of God and who is God, and what is these living entities, we living entities, and what is our relationship. These things are taught in the Bhagavad-gītā. We have to find out. Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He says:
- ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo
- mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate
- iti matvā bhajante māṁ
- budhā-bhāva-samanvitāḥ
- (BG 10.8)
So Kṛṣṇa is the origin of everything. Ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ. Sarvasya means including all other demigods. Even Brahma, Lord Śiva, and even Viṣṇu, they are emanations from Kṛṣṇa. We have got in the Vedic literature how Kṛṣṇa is the original person. Therefore Arjuna accepted, paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma pavitraṁ paramaṁ bhavān (BG 10.12).
And the Gosvāmīs, the six Gosvāmīs, they have analyzed Kṛṣṇa's characteristic, Nārāyaṇa's characteristic, Lord Śiva's characteristic, Lord Brahmā's characteristic. They have analyzed very scrutinizingly everything, and they have found it that Kṛṣṇa is cent percent God. Nārāyaṇa is ninety-six percent God, Lord Śiva is eighty-four percent God, Lord Brahmā is fifty per . . . seventy-eight percent God. Of course, those who have studied Vedic literature, especially the book named Bhakti-rasāmṛta sindhu, given by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, which we have translated into English, Nectar of Devotion, or The Science of Devotion . . .
So you have to learn from the Vedic literatures what is God, what are the living entities, what is their relationship, what is our ultimate goal of life. But everything is very nicely, and concise form, is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā. But we have to study Bhagavad-gītā as it is, I mean to say, directed, not according to the whimsical commentators. Nothing should be studied which is against the principles of bhakti-yoga mentioned in the Bhagavad-gītā.