# The Supersoul *On Paramātmā - the Supreme Lord who sits within every heart as witness and friend* --- ### Two Birds on One Tree > This is confirmed in the Upaniṣad, that two birds are sitting on one tree. One bird is eating the fruit and another bird is simply observing. So the observing bird is Kṛṣṇa, and the eating bird is the living entity. In another place also Kṛṣṇa says, kṣetra-jñaṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi sarva-kṣetreṣu bhārata. The question of the kṣetra-jña, the owner of the body, and the body, in this chapter, in the Thirteenth Chapter, it is discussed. — [[spoken/1976/760620bg.tor|Bhagavad-gītā 9.3, Toronto, 1976]] --- ### My Consciousness and His Consciousness > So in that chapter Kṛṣṇa says that "I am also one of the owner of the body, but the difference of this singular individual body and Myself is this, that the individual soul knows about his own body. But so far I am concerned, I am present in everyone's body, and I know everything of everyone's body." Just like you are a spirit soul, I am a spirit soul within this body. You know the pleasure and pains of your body; I know the pleasure and pains of my body. But Kṛṣṇa, He knows the pleasure and pains of your body and pleasure and pains of my body and everyone's body. That is Kṛṣṇa. That is Paramātmā. — [[spoken/1976/760620bg.tor|Bhagavad-gītā 9.3, Toronto, 1976]] --- ### The Supreme Friend Within the Heart > If we make Kṛṣṇa as our supreme friend... He is supreme friend. He's so supreme friend that... You'll find in the Bhagavad-gītā, everything is explained. Īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati: "My dear Arjuna, the Supreme Lord is situated in everyone's heart, in every living being's heart." You just imagine how many living entities are there. They cannot be counted. But there are many million, trillions. Even million, trillions is insufficient. There is no counting. There are so many living entities, and they are all part and parcel of God. — [[spoken/1975/750302le.atl|Sunday Feast Lecture, Atlanta, 1975]] --- ### Within and Without > By exhibiting His potencies, the Supreme Personality of Godhead adjusts all these different elements, keeping Himself within as the Supersoul and without as time. Bhagavān, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He is exhibiting Himself in so many ways. Just like the heat and light. The sunshine is diffusing unlimited quantity of heat and light, and on this heat and light the whole material existence is there. — [[spoken/1974/741227sb.bom|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.18, Bombay, 1974]] --- ### Innumerable Living Entities > There is no limit of the living entities. And still, Kṛṣṇa has to live within the heart of every living entity. Just see. And every living entity has different business. And He has to sanction and witness. There is a common saying that "Not a blade of grass can move without the sanction of God." Actually, that is the fact. Everyone has got different propensities, and he cannot do it without the sanction of God. This is God's business. Just see. — [[spoken/1974/741227sb.bom|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.18, Bombay, 1974]] --- ### The Anxious Father > Kṛṣṇa is very much anxious because we are suffering and we are sons of Kṛṣṇa; we are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa. He is unhappy to see that you are suffering. That is natural. If the son is suffering from ailment, the father also suffers: "How the son will be cured?" The son may not know it, but the father is suffering without having that ailment. Similarly, Kṛṣṇa, the..., He is the father of all living entities. — [[spoken/1974/741227sb.bom|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.18, Bombay, 1974]] --- ### He Gives Remembrance and Forgetfulness > He has to... Sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭaḥ, Kṛṣṇa says, that "I am situated in everyone's heart." And mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanaṁ ca: "And through Me the living entity is getting intelligence, remembrance." So just see how much busy He is. Everyone's heart, īśvaraḥ paramaḥ... īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati. Īśvara, the Supersoul, it is said here, antaḥ puruṣa-rūpeṇa, the Supersoul. And the Bhagavad-gītā also confirms, sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭaḥ. — [[spoken/1974/741227sb.bom|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.18, Bombay, 1974]] --- ### Caitya-guru > Kṛṣṇa is always ready to help us. How? He is inside and outside. Antaḥ, antaryāmī. Caitya-guru. He is acting as caitya-guru. Kṛṣṇa is very much anxious because we are suffering and we are sons of Kṛṣṇa; we are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa. So Kṛṣṇa is the father of everyone, and He is very much anxious for us, to get us back. Therefore He is ordering, "You rascal, why you have created so many 'isms'? Just surrender to Me. I will give you protection." — [[spoken/1974/741227sb.bom|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.18, Bombay, 1974]] --- ### Kṛṣṇa Never Leaves Vṛndāvana > Kṛṣṇa, although He does not leave even by a step Goloka Vṛndāvana... He is always enjoying in company with Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī: ānandamayo 'bhyāsāt. His only business is ānanda, sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha. But He has got so many other businesses. So many. He has to... Sarvasya cāhaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭaḥ, Kṛṣṇa says, that "I am situated in everyone's heart." So we are getting different types of body according to the... Kṛṣṇa does not give directly, but He is the Supreme Lord. He has nothing to do. Simply His order is sufficient. — [[spoken/1974/741227sb.bom|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.18, Bombay, 1974]] --- ### The Fire and Its Heat > Just like agni, fire, eka-deśa-sthita, is there is one place, localized. Agni does not move, but heat moves. That you have got experience. You have big fire in one place. The fire does not move, but you can feel the existence of fire by heat and light. Similarly, Bhagavān does not move. He has got immense power. Parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate. He moves by His energy. That is the difference between the Māyāvāda philosopher and Vaiṣṇava philosopher. — [[spoken/1974/741227sb.bom|Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.18, Bombay, 1974]] --- *10 quotes from Śrīla Prabhupāda on the Supersoul* [[wiki/quotes|Back to Quotes]]