# Everything Is Kṛṣṇa *On the vision of the pure devotee* --- ### Higher Stage Devotee Sees Nothing but Kṛṣṇa > So this is called *advaya-jñāna.* Similarly, when we read *Bhagavad-gītā,* that is also Kṛṣṇa. Therefore we should pay respect. When we enter into the temple of Kṛṣṇa, it should be understood that we are in touch with Kṛṣṇa. Everything in relationship is Kṛṣṇa. That is the highest... Therefore the devotees who are in the higher conception of Kṛṣṇa consciousness sees nothing before him save and except Kṛṣṇa. That is not to be imitated, but the stage, in the higher stage, the devotee sees nothing but Kṛṣṇa. *Sarvatra sphūraya tāṅra iṣṭa-deva mūrti*. — [[spoken/1966/661211cc.ny|Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.152–154, New York, December 11, 1966]] --- ### Even in Material World He Sees Kṛṣṇa > Everything is relationship Kṛṣṇa. Matter is energy of Kṛṣṇa. Therefore energy and the energetic, not being different, so even in the material world he sees Kṛṣṇa. So for him, there is no matter; everything spiritual. *Advaya-jñāna.* There is no matter at all. Just like in Kṛṣṇa, he has no distinction what is matter, what is spirit, but in our conditioned stage we have got "superior," "inferior" conception. But when we are also in the higher stage of the Absolute Truth, *brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā na śocati na kāṅkṣati,* when we are actually in devotional..., such pure devotional service in Kṛṣṇa, then we will see that everything is Kṛṣṇa. — [[spoken/1966/661211cc.ny|Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.152–154, New York, December 11, 1966]] --- ### We Accept Because Kṛṣṇa Says > So because we are in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, even if we do not understand what is the constitutional position of the soul, here, because Kṛṣṇa says, we should accept it. This is called *paramparā. Evaṁ paramparā-prāptam*, disciplic succession. — [[spoken/1968/681211bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 2.27–38, Los Angeles, December 11, 1968]] --- ### Soul Takes Shelter of Another Body > Therefore the conclusion is there, *na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre*. Even after this body is annihilated, the soul remains eternal. Just like if somebody comes and drives us out of this room, that does not mean that I am finished. I shall go and take shelter of another room. Similarly, when the soul, when the body is killed or annihilated by nature or by force, the soul takes shelter of another body. That is the conclusion. — [[spoken/1968/681211bg.la|Bhagavad-gītā 2.27–38, Los Angeles, December 11, 1968]] --- ### Gold Mine Is Right, Gold Earring Also Right > "I am the origin of everything." If Kṛṣṇa is truth, He is the origin of everything, so how everything can be false? Is that very logical? No. If something has come from gold... Just like we have got so many preparation of gold: gold bangles, gold earring, gold necklace. But it has come from the gold; therefore it is gold. How it can be false? Gold is never false. Gold is gold. So this philosophy that *brahma satyaṁ jagan mithyā,* that "Gold mine is right, but the gold earring is wrong..." No. That you cannot say. If gold mine is right, then gold earring is also right, because it has come from the gold mine. — [[spoken/1973/731211sb.la|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.15.33, Los Angeles, December 11, 1973]] --- ### Not False, But Temporary > Just like big, big *svāmīs* in India—sometimes they come to your country also—they say that "This world is false," *jagan mithyā. Mithyā.* But we don't say that it is false. We say it is reality, but temporary. That is right philosophy. How it can be false? Because everything is produced by the Truth, by the Absolute Truth. *Janmādy asya yataḥ.* Nothing can come out except from the Absolute Truth. — [[spoken/1973/731211sb.la|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.15.33, Los Angeles, December 11, 1973]] --- ### Kṛṣṇa Is Friend of All > Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, *manaḥ ṣaṣṭhānīndriyāṇi prakṛti-sthāni karṣati. Mamaivāṁśo jīva-bhūtaḥ*: "All these living entities..." Kṛṣṇa does not say that "I am for the Hindu living entities or the Indian living entities." Where it is in *Bhagavad-gītā?* Why the foolish men take it that Kṛṣṇa Hindu, Kṛṣṇa Indian? Kṛṣṇa says that *suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānām:* "I am friend of all living entities," *sarva-bhūtānām.* Not only human society, but animal society, the plant society, the aquatic society. There are so many living entities. — [[spoken/1974/741211sb.bom|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.43, Bombay, December 11, 1974]] --- ### Forgetfulness of Kṛṣṇa Causes Fear > So by giving up Kṛṣṇa... We have now given up Kṛṣṇa. We are canvassing. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, we are canvassing everyone, every door, "Please come to Kṛṣṇa." This is our business. But they will not come. They have forgotten Kṛṣṇa or they have rejected Kṛṣṇa. This is the position. Therefore they are always in fearfulness position, always fearful. *Bhayaṁ dvitīyābhiniveśataḥ syāt*. This is certain. When there is fear? When one understands there is something else than Kṛṣṇa, then he is fearful. — [[spoken/1974/741211sb.bom|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.25.43, Bombay, December 11, 1974]] --- *8 verified verbatim quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda on everything is Kṛṣṇa*