You have got Kṛṣṇa within your heart. Simply you have to realize it; simply you have to become qualified, bona fide, to speak with Him. That's all. That is the qualification. That requires training. As soon as we are trained up to talk with the Supreme Lord, who is living within my heart, then our life is successful. Kṛṣṇa says:
- teṣāṁ satata-yuktānāṁ
- bhajatāṁ prīti-pūrvakam
- buddhi-yogaṁ dadāmi taṁ
- (BG 10.10)
"I give intelligence to the person who is always engaged in devotional service with love." So Brahmā was educated by Kṛṣṇa through the heart, tene brahma hṛdā ya ādi-kavaye. And what kind of Kṛṣṇa is . . . that is also explained here, that muhyanti yat sūrayaḥ. Kṛṣṇa is not understood even by the greatest scholar and greatest sage. Muhyanti: they become bewildered, puzzled to understand Kṛṣṇa. So:
- tene brahma hṛdā ya ādi-kavaye muhyanti yat sūrayaḥ
- tejo-vāri-mṛdāṁ yathā vinimayo yatra tri-sargo 'mṛṣā
- dhāmnā svena sadā nirasta-kuhakaṁ satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi
- (SB 1.1.1)
Here in this material world, it is a false representation, tejo-vāri-mṛdāṁ vinimayo. Just like a big skyscraper building, it actually it is very costly building, but what is the combination of this house? Tejo-vāri-mṛd. Tejaḥ means "fire," vāri means "water," and mṛd means "earth." So you mix earth with water and form it in a brick and dry it in the fire, and then it becomes brick. And you pile over one brick after another, it becomes a skyscraper building. But actually it is simply exchange of these three things, tejo-vāri-mṛd vinimayam. This whole material world is like that; actually it is the five elements combined together.
But there is another world, another nature, where the houses are made of cintāmaṇi. They are not made of these false, material things; they are made of . . . by living cintāmaṇi, living stone. We haven’t got the idea, but we can get the idea from the śāstra:
- cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-
- lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam
- lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ
- govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
- (Bs. 5.29)
Govinda's real abode is described here. The houses are made there of cintāmaṇi stone, living stone. The stone will talk with you. But there is a stone like that. We get information from the Vedic literature, there is a stone. And kalpa-vṛkṣa: the trees are there, but they are not like these trees; they are kalpa-vṛkṣa. You can get anything you want from that tree: desire tree. Here, from mango tree you can get mangoes only, not papaya; but from the desire tree, whatever you want. Even you can get purīs and kachorīs from that.
Devotees: Ahh!
Prabhupāda: Yes, desire tree: cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-lakṣāvṛteṣu. Such trees and houses, not one or two: lakṣāvṛteṣu—thousands and millions of trees and houses are there.
The fact is that the spiritual world is not void, as somebody thinks. They have no information. Kṛṣṇa says:
- yad gatvā na nivartante
- tad dhāma paramaṁ mama
- (BG 15.6)
So His dhāma, He has got a dhāma, He has got an abode, in the spiritual world. Paras tasmāt tu bhāvaḥ anyaḥ (BG 8.20): but that nature is different, beyond this material nature. That thing is explained here in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, that tejo-vāri-mṛdāṁ yathā vinimayo yatra tri-sargo 'mṛṣā. Here everything is false—not false; temporary. Everything, just like your body, my body, it is temporary; it is not false. The Māyāvādī philosopher will say it is false. But we, Vaiṣṇava philosopher, we don’t say that it is false, we say it is temporary.