The Original Seed of All Existences

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada · Vrindavan · 1974

Chapters

Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.

Krishna as the original seed of life

[Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] BG 7.10बीजं मां सर्वभूतानां विद्धि पार्थ सनातनम् ।बुद्धिर्बुद्धिमतामस्मि तेजस्तेजस्विनामहम् ॥१०॥bījaṁ māṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁviddhi pārtha sanātanambuddhir buddhimatām asmitejas tejasvinām ahamO son of Pṛthā, know that I am the original seed of all existences, the intelligence of the intelligent, and the prowess of all powerful men.[break]

Translation = "O son of Pṛthā, know that I am the original seed of all existences, the intelligence of the intelligent and the prowess of all powerful men."

BG 7.10बीजं मां सर्वभूतानां विद्धि पार्थ सनातनम् ।बुद्धिर्बुद्धिमतामस्मि तेजस्तेजस्विनामहम् ॥१०॥bījaṁ māṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁviddhi pārtha sanātanambuddhir buddhimatām asmitejas tejasvinām ahamO son of Pṛthā, know that I am the original seed of all existences, the intelligence of the intelligent, and the prowess of all powerful men.

Prabhupāda: So bījaṁ, the original seed of life = sarva-bhūtānāṁ. The modern scientists, they are trying to prove that life comes from matter, chemical evolution.

Refuting chemical evolution and material theories

But we don’t accept that. We accept from Bhagavad-gītā that Kṛṣṇa is the original life. Kṛṣṇa is not a dead stone.

As it is said in the Vedānta-sūtra, janmādy asya yataḥ [Vedānta-sūtra 1.1.2] = the Absolute Truth is that from which everything emanates. So that Absolute Truth, what kind of...

Absolute Truth = is it dead matter or living force?

It cannot be dead matter, because there are so many living entities; and the Absolute Truth is a dead matter, it cannot produce living entities, because we have no such experience that from dead matter living entities are coming out.

That is not possible. Sometimes we see that from cow dung some life is coming out. Sometimes we see from the heaps of rice the scorpion is coming out.

So foolish people will think that the rice is the cause of the life of the scorpion. But that is not the fact.

Real fact is the scorpion, they lay eggs within the heaps of the rice, and by fermentation of the rice the eggs become fructified, and life come out. Not that rice, a dead matter, is the cause of the life.

So now big, big scientists, they are trying to prove that life come from matter. But here we understand from Kṛṣṇa, the supreme authority, that He is the origin of all life = bījaṁ māṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ. Sarva-bhūtānāṁ.

In another place Kṛṣṇa says, BG 14.4सर्वयोनिषु कौन्तेय मूर्तयः संभवन्ति याः ।तासां ब्रह्म महद्योनिरहं बीजप्रदः पिता ॥४॥sarva-yoniṣu kaunteyamūrtayaḥ sambhavanti yāḥtāsāṁ brahma mahad yonirahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitāIt should be understood that all species of life, O son of Kuntī, are made possible by birth in this material nature, and that I am the seed-giving father.In all species of life.

There are 8,400,000 species of life—aquatics, trees, plants, insect, then reptiles, then birds, bees, then human being. This is the evolutionary process. Asatiṁ caturaṁś caiva [Padma Purāṇa].

These are all mentioned in the Vedic literature about the evolution. Not that the foolish theory of Darwin is the origin of evolution. The evolutionary theory is there. Not theory—fact.

So Kṛṣṇa says in Bhagavad-gītā that sarva-yoniṣu kaunteya. Yoni means the original source of birth. So there are so many living entities are there. Kṛṣṇa claims,

BG 14.4सर्वयोनिषु कौन्तेय मूर्तयः संभवन्ति याः ।तासां ब्रह्म महद्योनिरहं बीजप्रदः पिता ॥४॥sarva-yoniṣu kaunteyamūrtayaḥ sambhavanti yāḥtāsāṁ brahma mahad yonirahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitāIt should be understood that all species of life, O son of Kuntī, are made possible by birth in this material nature, and that I am the seed-giving father.

Again He says, ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā. Just like father gives the bījaṁ, yathā-yoni yathā-bījaṁ

The mother is the yoni, and the father is the bījaṁ. So without father there cannot be any life, because the father gives the bījaṁ, the seed.

Many places in the Vedic literature it is stated that life does not come from matter, but life comes from the supreme life, Kṛṣṇa. That is the verdict of the Vedic literature.

Bījaṁ māṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ. Viddhi: you should understand. Don’t be misled that life comes from matter. It is not fact.

Therefore He says, viddhi, sanātanam. Not that nowadays it has become like that, that life is coming from life; formerly life was coming from matter.

Eternal nature versus material subjection

So, viddhi māṁ sanātanam. The sanātanam means "eternally." Eternally. The sanātana word is used in so many places. In another place, Kṛṣṇa says,

BG 15.7ममैवांशो जीवलोके जीवभूतः सनातनः ।मनःषष्ठानीन्द्रियाणि प्रकृतिस्थानि कर्षति ॥७॥mamaivāmśo jīva-lokejīva-bhūtaḥ sanātanaḥmanaḥ-ṣaṣṭhānīndriyāṇiprakṛti-sthāni karṣatiThe living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind.

And another place, Kṛṣṇa says, BG 8.20परस्तस्मात्तु भावोऽन्योऽव्यक्तोऽव्यक्तात्सनातनः ।यः स सर्वेषु भूतेषु नश्यत्सु न विनश्यति ॥२०॥paras tasmāt tu bhāvo 'nyo'vyakto 'vyaktāt sanātanaḥyaḥ sa sarveṣu bhūteṣunaśyatsu na vinaśyatiYet there is another unmanifest nature, which is eternal and is transcendental to this manifested and unmanifested matter. It is supreme and is never annihilated. When all in this world is annihilated, that part remains as it is.The sanātana word is used in many places.

Sanātanam means "eternal." So this bījaṁ, Kṛṣṇa, is sanātanam. Sanātanaṁ taṁ prabhum āśrayāmi [Vilāpa-kusumāñjali]. The sanātana word is very important thing.

So there is a place, as we understand from Bhagavad-gītā, another nature = paras tasmāt tu bhāvaḥ anyaḥ Bhāva means "nature." Just like this. This is also nature, this material cosmic manifestation.

This is also nature. But this is not sanātanam. This is temporary, asanātana. Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate Here in this material world everything is created at a certain date.

It remains for some time, it grows, it produces some by-products, then gradually dwindles and at last vanishes—finished. So this is not sanātana. Sad-vikāra: six kinds of changes.

Just like your body, my body, this is not sanātanam. This is asanātanam. Asanātanam means "not permanent." But the bījaṁ, the seed, or the living entities, they are sanātanam. They are not temporary.

Therefore it is said, BG 7.10बीजं मां सर्वभूतानां विद्धि पार्थ सनातनम् ।बुद्धिर्बुद्धिमतामस्मि तेजस्तेजस्विनामहम् ॥१०॥bījaṁ māṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁviddhi pārtha sanātanambuddhir buddhimatām asmitejas tejasvinām ahamO son of Pṛthā, know that I am the original seed of all existences, the intelligence of the intelligent, and the prowess of all powerful men.

So we are sanātanam. We cannot understand that "Why we should be subjected to the rules and regulation of asanātana, not sanātana?" Actually, although we are... Kṛṣṇa says in many places.

Na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre Nityaḥśāśvato 'yaṁ. Again He says sanātanam. Another place Kṛṣṇa says, mamaivāṁśo jīva-loke sanātanaḥ So we have lost our intelligence.

That several places the living entity is described as sanātanam, eternally, then "Why I am under the tribulation of so many rules and regulation of this material nature?" This is the question.

This is called brahma jijñāsā. Athāto brahma jijñāsā. This is intelligence. Unless one is promoted to this intellectual platform, that "I am sanātana"... In so many places it is described.

Nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām, in Kaṭha Upaniṣad. [Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13].

We are nityas, and Kṛṣṇa is also nitya. Nityo nityānāṁ. Description of Kṛṣṇa, or the Supreme Lord, is given there, that He is the chief nitya. We are nityas, but we are subordinate nityas. We require a leader.

And in our material life also we require a leader. Without leader, there is no progress. So the supreme leader is Kṛṣṇa. Nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām. Therefore our eternal relationship is with Kṛṣṇa.

Nitya sambandha. Nitya siddha. In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta it is called nitya-siddha kṛṣṇa-bhakti sādhya kabhu naya

This kṛṣṇa-bhakti, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, is nitya-siddha. Nityo nityānāṁ. For eternally it is a fact that we are all servant of Kṛṣṇa, and our duty is to render service unto Him.

That is confirmed by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu = jīvera 'svarūpa' haya-kṛṣṇera 'nitya-dāsa' That is our position. And mukti means..., that is described in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,

SB 2.10.6निरोधोऽस्यानुशयनमात्मनः सह शक्तिभिः ।मुक्तिर्हित्वान्यथा रूपं स्वरूपेण व्यवस्थितिः ॥६॥nirodho 'syānuśayanamātmanaḥ saha śaktibhiḥmuktir hitvānyathā rūpaṁsva-rūpeṇa vyavasthitiḥThe merging of the living entity, along with his conditional living tendency, with the mystic lying down of the Mahā-Viṣṇu is called the winding up of the cosmic manifestation. Liberation is the permanent situation of the form of the living entity after he gives up the changeable gross and subtle material bodies.

Liberation through peace and bhakti yoga

This is called mukti. Mukti means hitvānyathā-rūpaṁ. We are acting otherwise. We have forgotten that we are eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa. This forgetfulness is causing us all trouble, all tribulations, all miseries.

We want to enjoy this material world, forgetting that we are not enjoyer; we are simply servant. Jīvera 'svarūpa' haya-kṛṣṇera 'nitya-dāsa'. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says,

BG 5.29भोक्तारं यज्ञतपसां सर्वलोकमहेश्वरम् ।सुहृदं सर्वभूतानां ज्ञात्वा मां शान्तिमृच्छति ॥२९॥bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁsarva-loka-maheśvaramsuhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁjñātvā māṁ śāntim ṛcchatiA person in full consciousness of Me, knowing Me to be the ultimate beneﬁciary of all sacriﬁces and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods, and the benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities, attains peace from the pangs of material miseries.

If you want śānti, then you should understand Kṛṣṇa, that Kṛṣṇa is the bhokta; He is the enjoyer. We are not enjoyer. The mistake is that we are trying to be enjoyer.

Karmī, jñānī, yogī, they are trying to become enjoyer. And only the devotees, they want to remain as this eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa. That is the difference. So this is eternal.

The Caitanya-caritāmṛta-kar, he confirms, nitya-siddha kṛṣṇa-bhakti. Kṛṣṇa-bhakti. Bhakti means bhagavān, bhakta. And the transaction between bhagavān and bhakta is called bhakti. The bhakti definition is the activities, the natural activities, between the bhakta and the bhagavān. Whenever there is the word bhakti, bhakti means there must be three items = the bhagavān must be there, the bhakta must be there, and the transaction between the bhakta and bhagavān must be there.

That is called bhakti. So this is our aim in life, sanātana. Because we are sanātana, our business, eternal business, is bhakti. Just like here, this is still further clear.

Another place, ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā. Here it is said, bījaṁ māṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ. This is one thing. In other place, in Thirteenth Chapter, He says—or Fourteenth Chapter, I think—He says, ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā

the same bīja. Therefore He is the father. He is the seed-giving father. So what is your relationship with father? The relationship with father means father should be revered; father should be obeyed.

You should remain obedient to the father. That is your natural position. If you become disobedient to father, that is your unnatural position. Therefore in the material world...

Material world means every one of us, we are disobedient to the supreme father. This is material life. kṛṣṇa bhuliya jīva bhoga vañcha karepāśate māyā tāre jāpaṭiyā dhare[Prema-vivarta]

Because we are trying to become the master, not servant.

Mistaken identity and failure of material leadership

Everyone is trying to become master. That is the material disease. And everyone is trying to become the enjoyer of the material resources. Everyone is trying to be proprietor of this world or another, even Candraloka.

They could not manage this world as proprietor, and they are trying to go to another planet to become proprietor. This is going on. This is material disease. He will never accept that "I am not proprietor.

I am not proprietor. Proprietor is Kṛṣṇa." Sarva-loka-maheśvaram. If we accept this simple thing, there is immediately peace. The people, even in this..., on this globe, they are...

Everyone has made a group = "We are Americans," "We are Indians," "We are Pakistanis," "We are Japanese," "We are this and that," and claiming, "This is mine," so-called. This is called nationalism. Bhauma ijya-dhīḥ

Yat-tīrtha. Bhauma ijya-dhīḥ. Bhauma means the land. The modern advancement means to become nationalist. What is that nationalism? The bhauma ijya-dhīḥ: worshiping the land of birth. This is called nationalism.

So this is called mistaken identity. Actually the bhūmi, or the land, does not belong to you. It belongs to Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa said, BG 5.29भोक्तारं यज्ञतपसां सर्वलोकमहेश्वरम् ।सुहृदं सर्वभूतानां ज्ञात्वा मां शान्तिमृच्छति ॥२९॥bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁsarva-loka-maheśvaramsuhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁjñātvā māṁ śāntim ṛcchatiA person in full consciousness of Me, knowing Me to be the ultimate beneﬁciary of all sacriﬁces and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods, and the benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities, attains peace from the pangs of material miseries.

And we are falsely trying to become friends of others—leaders. But we do not know how to become friend. Actually nobody is going to be my friend. Everyone wants to exploit me, but in the shape of friend he comes to exploit.

This is the world. Why you should claim "friend"? "My sir, I am your friend. What can I do for you?" If I am real friend, then I should inform everybody that Kṛṣṇa is your original, only friend. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

We don’t claim... We are friend in this way, that "I have brought a good news for you." I am friend in that way. "What is that good news?" "That you have got a very nice friend, Kṛṣṇa. Very powerful.

Very powerful friend." "Oh, what I am? I am nothing." This is actually Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Everyone is trying to become friend, leader, leader of the people, and they do not know who is friend.

They are falsely claiming to become friend, and misleading people more and more. Andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānās

A friend, a blind friend, he is claiming other blind friends, "My dear blind friends"—he is also blind—"I will protect you." And other blind friends, they also do not see what kind of friend he is.

"If he is friend, if he wants to help us, we are already blind. Whether he can help us at all?" Because both of them are blind. Andhā yathāndhair upanīyamānās. They do not know. They want to become friend.

But what kind of friend? Blind friend. So they cannot help. That is the verdict of the Vedas.

SB 7.5.31न ते विदुः स्वार्थगतिं हि विष्णुंदुराशया ये बहिरर्थमानिनः ।अन्धा यथान्धैरुपनीयमानास्तेऽपीशतन्त्र्यामुरुदाम्नि बद्धाः ॥३१॥na te viduḥ svārtha-gatiṁ hi viṣṇuṁdurāśayā ye bahir-artha-māninaḥandhā yathāndhair upanīyamānāste 'pīśa-tantryām uru-dāmni baddhāḥPersons who are strongly entrapped by the consciousness of enjoying material life, and who have therefore accepted as their leader or guru a similar blind man attached to external sense objects, cannot understand that the goal of life is to return home, back to Godhead, and engage in the service of Lord Viṣṇu. As blind men guided by another blind man miss the right path and fall into a ditch, materially attached men led by another materially attached man are bound by the ropes of fruitive labor, which are made of very strong cords, and they continue again and again in materialistic life, suffering the threefold miseries.

These so-called blind, rascal friends, they are trying to make us happy by material adjustment. That is not possible. It is not possible.

BG 7.14दैवी ह्येषा गुणमयी मम माया दुरत्यया ।मामेव ये प्रपद्यन्ते मायामेतां तरन्ति ते ॥१४॥daivī hy eṣā guṇa-mayīmama māyā duratyayāmām eva ye prapadyantemāyām etāṁ taranti teThis divine energy of Mine, consisting of the three modes of material nature, is difﬁcult to overcome. But those who have surrendered unto Me can easily cross beyond it.

Kṛṣṇa says, "This material world, the illusionary, external energy, you are under her control." We are, every one of us, we are under the control of the material energy.

In another place, in Brahma-saṁhitā, the material energy is described as the Durgā, Mother Durgā:

BS 5.44सृष्टि स्थिति प्रलय साधन शक्ति एकाःछायेव यस्य भुवनानि बिभर्त्ति दुर्गा |इच्छा अनुरूपम् अपि यस्य च चेष्टते सागोविन्दम् आदि पुरुषं तमहं भजामि ॥ ४४ ॥sṛṣṭi-sthiti-pralaya-sādhana-śaktir ekāchāyeva yasya bhuvanāni bibharti durgāicchānurūpam api yasya ca ceṣṭate sāgovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmiThe external potency Māyā who is of the nature of the shadow of the cit potency, is worshiped by all people as Durgā, the creating, preserving and destroying agency of this mundane world. I adore the primeval Lord Govinda in accordance with whose will Durgā conducts herself.

So we are very fond of worshiping Mother Durgā to take some concession, but such kind of concession will not give me relief.

When we worship Mother..., Goddess Durgā, we ask from her, dhanaṁ dehi rūpaṁ dehi yaśo dehi rupavati bharyam dehi. So Mother Durgā gives. But that will not help us if we...

Because the place where we are, in this material world, it is duḥkhālayam. You cannot be happy simply by getting a beautiful wife and very big bank balance. That is not possible. It is mistaken idea.

Because the place is duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam, Kṛṣṇa says. So we should understand Kṛṣṇa simply as Kṛṣṇa says.

Understanding the root cause through mercy

Not whimsically, not by mental speculation. You cannot understand Kṛṣṇa by mental speculation. That is not possible. Athāpi te deva padāmbuja-dvaya-prasāda-leśānugṛhīta eva hi jānāti tattvaṁ...

Kṛṣṇa tattva can be understood by the mercy of Kṛṣṇa, not by your mental speculation. Don’t try to understand Kṛṣṇa by your defective mental speculation. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says,

BG 7.3मनुष्याणां सहस्रेषु कश्चिद्यतति सिद्धये ।यततामपि सिद्धानां कश्चिन्मां वेत्ति तत्त्वतः ॥३॥manuṣyāṇāṁ sahasreṣukaścid yatati siddhayeyatatām api siddhānāṁkaścin māṁ vetti tattvataḥOut of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.

You cannot understand Kṛṣṇa what He is, even though you become..., you are a siddha. Yatatām api siddhānāṁ. What to speak of ordinary men, those who are siddhas... Siddhas means self-realized, spiritually situated, especially the jñānī. So even out of them, millions of jñānīs, one can understand Kṛṣṇa.

Kṛṣṇa is not so easy to understand. BG 7.19बहूनां जन्मनामन्ते ज्ञानवान्मां प्रपद्यते ।वासुदेवः सर्वमिति स महात्मा सुदुर्लभः ॥१९॥bahūnāṁ janmanām antejñānavān māṁ prapadyatevāsudevaḥ sarvam itisa mahātmā su-durlabhaḥAfter many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare.If one understands Kṛṣṇa, then he will immediately surrender to Him.

That is understanding of Kṛṣṇa. Māṁ prapadyate. Why prapa...? BG 7.19बहूनां जन्मनामन्ते ज्ञानवान्मां प्रपद्यते ।वासुदेवः सर्वमिति स महात्मा सुदुर्लभः ॥१९॥bahūnāṁ janmanām antejñānavān māṁ prapadyatevāsudevaḥ sarvam itisa mahātmā su-durlabhaḥAfter many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare.We can understand that Kṛṣṇa is the root cause of all causes.

BS 5.1ईश्वरः परमः कृष्णःसत् चित् आनंद विग्रहः ।अनादिः आदिः गोविन्दःसर्व कारण कारणम् ॥ १ ॥īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥsac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥanādir ādir govindaḥsarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇamKṛṣṇa who is known as Govinda is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin and He is the prime cause of all causes.

So every śāstra will confirm Kṛṣṇa’s position, and Kṛṣṇa also personally saying. And He is accepted by great authorities like Vyāsadeva, Nārada, Devala, Asita.

Formerly, five thousand years ago, and after that all the ācāryas—Madhvācārya, Śrī Rāmānujācārya, Viṣṇu Svāmī, Nimbārka, later on Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu—all of them accepted Kṛṣṇa, kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam

especially our Gauḍīya-sampradāya, Caitanya Mahāprabhu sampradāya. Ārādhyo bhagavān vrajeśa-tanaya [Viśvanātha Cakravartī]. Our principle is to worship Kṛṣṇa. What kind of Kṛṣṇa?

Vrajeśa-tanaya. Means the son of Mahārāja Nanda and Yaśodā—that Kṛṣṇa. There may be many other Kṛṣṇas. People may not misunderstand. Just like one may not... Therefore father’s, mother’s name is given.

So therefore here it is said, vrajeśa-tanaya. This bhūmi, this Vṛndāvana-bhūmi, is called Vraja.

So Nanda Mahārāja was the king of Vraja, Vrajeśvara; and his son, Kṛṣṇa, He is ārādhya. That is Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s philosophy = ārādhya bhagavān vrajeṣa tanaya tad dhāma vṛndāvanam. And this Vṛndāvana-dhāma is also as good as Kṛṣṇa.

Glories of Vrindavana and eternal religion

Do not try to see Kṛṣṇa..., er, Vṛndāvana-dhāma as ordinary place. That is called dhāma-aparādha. Then you will never be able to understand.

And the Vaiṣṇava kavi said, jaya jaya vṛndāvana-vāsī yata jana [Śrī Vraja-dhāma-mahimāmṛta 7].

Anyone who is living in Vṛndāvana, even cats and dogs, they are also glorious, because next birth they will be elevated; they will be liberated. That is Vṛndāvana-dhāma.

So in this way try to understand the glories of Vṛndāvana-dhāma, the glories of Lord Kṛṣṇa, according to śāstra. Even if we do not know śāstra, if you simply accept that kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam

and His dhāma, Vṛndāvana, is as good as Kṛṣṇa, then we are far advanced in spiritual understanding. So Kṛṣṇa is teaching personally,

And sanātanam, this word is very important.

The process by which we can understand Kṛṣṇa, and by understanding Kṛṣṇa, when we are promoted in the Kṛṣṇa’s dhāma and we meet Kṛṣṇa person to person, talk with Him—there is a process—that is called bhakti-yoga. And that process is called sanātana-dhāma. Sanātana-dhāma you have heard.

Sanātana-dhāma means this bhakti-yoga. Sanātana-dhāma does not mean some ritualistic ceremony.

This is meant—sanātanam bījaṁ—everyone, every living entity, is sanātanam. And Kṛṣṇa is sanātanam, and His abode is sanātanam. Sanātanam. Bhaktyā bhaktyā sanātanam. So if we want to be promoted to the sanātanam place and to see the sanātanam, supreme sanātanam, eye to eye, and talk with Him and dance with Him or play with Him—we are sanātanam—then we must accept this sanātana-dhāma, eternal religious system.

And what is that religion? Dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavat-praṇītam You cannot manufacture sanātana-dhāma. It is already done by Kṛṣṇa.

Dharmaṁ tu sākṣād bhagavān. And that is sanātana-dhāma. What is that sanātana-dhāma? BG 18.66सर्वधर्मान्परित्यज्य मामेकं शरणं व्रज ।अहं त्वां सर्वपापेभ्यो मोक्षयिष्यामि मा शुचः ॥६६॥sarva-dharmān parityajyamām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vrajaahaṁ tvāṁ sarva-pāpebhyomokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥAbandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear.You simply...

Kṛṣṇa says this is sanātana-dhāma, that "You simply surrender unto Me, and I will give you protection." Thank you very much.

Devotees: Jaya Śrīla Prabhupāda. [end]