# Seeing God *On how to perceive God in daily life* --- ### Taste of Water Is Kṛṣṇa > Just like Kṛṣṇa says, *raso 'ham apsu kaunteya prabhāsmi śaśi-sūryayoḥ* : "I am the taste of the water." When we drink water, we feel very much satisfied. The taste of water is so nice. Kṛṣṇa says, "I am that taste." Now, if you are drinking daily water and you are tasting it, so how you can say that you have not seen God? If you have tasted that water, then you have seen God. *Prabhāsmi śaśi-sūryayoḥ:* "I am the shining principle of sun and the moon." You are seeing every day the sunshine and the moonshine. How you can say that you have not seen God? — [[spoken/1971/710223le.bom|Paṇḍal Lecture, Bombay, February 23, 1971]] --- ### See Kṛṣṇa in Every Step > Simply you try to understand Kṛṣṇa in every step of life. In every step of life. They will be all explained in this chapter, how you can perceive Kṛṣṇa. The beginning is tasting. Everyone drinks water or drinks something else. So try to taste the liquid, thinking that "This taste is Kṛṣṇa." You see in the morning the light of sunshine: "Here is Kṛṣṇa." In the evening you see the moonlight: "Here is Kṛṣṇa." There is sound always, especially in a city like Bombay. It is full of sound. So whenever you hear any kind of sound—sound is the vibration of the sky—you remember: "This sound is Kṛṣṇa." *Śabdaḥ khe.* And whenever you meet any person very exalted, very extraordinarily able, you'll understand that "This ability is Kṛṣṇa's mercy, *vibhūti.*" — [[spoken/1974/740223bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.8, Bombay, February 23, 1974]] --- ### Cannot Hide from God > Now how we can hide yourself from the eyes of God? The sunshine is within your room. You are thinking that "I am alone in this room. Nobody can see. Let us do all nonsense." Oh, the sunshine is there. How can you hide yourself? Therefore He's perfect. He can see what... Besides that, that is outside looking. And inside—*īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati*. He's sitting within you. So how can you hide yourself? So this is not possible. — [[spoken/1967/670217cc.sf|Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 7.106–107, San Francisco, February 17, 1967]] --- ### Simultaneously One and Different > simultaneously one and different. Simultaneously. Everything. *Idaṁ hi viśvaṁ bhagavān ivetaraḥ*. It requires only realization that "Whole universe is Kṛṣṇa." *Idaṁ hi viśvaṁ bhagavān.* But it appears different from Bhagavān. Actually, it is not different. You have to understand by purified senses. That is required. Unless you have got purified senses, you cannot understand. But this is the beginning: *raso 'ham apsu kaunteya*. You just try to understand. This *rasa...* It is said by Kṛṣṇa. It is not our manufacture. When... If I say that "The taste of water is Kṛṣṇa," that may be different. But Kṛṣṇa says, *raso 'ham apsu kaunteya.* So why not think of Kṛṣṇa? — [[spoken/1974/740223bg.bom|Bhagavad-gītā 7.8, Bombay, February 23, 1974]] --- ### Energy of God > So we should try to appreciate the energy of God. When Kṛṣṇa says, *mayā tatam idaṁ sarvam:* "I am all-pervading..." *Sarvam. Sarvaṁ khalv idaṁ brahma* [Chāndogya Upaniṣad 3.14.1], the same thing, as it is Vedic injunction, similarly Kṛṣṇa says, *mayā tatam idaṁ sarvaṁ jagat avyakta-mūrtinā:* "The all-pervading nature, the expansion of my energy, is the impersonal Brahman." That is impersonal. *Mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni nāhaṁ teṣu avasthitaḥ*. That is Kṛṣṇa's power. Everything is resting in Him. That means in His energy. *Śakti. Śakti-śaktimator abhedaḥ.* His energy is not different from Him. — [[spoken/1971/710219cc.gor|Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 6.154–155 [Śrī Kṛṣṇa-niketana], Gorakhpur, February 19, 1971]] --- *5 verified verbatim quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda on seeing God*