“Sunshine is not Different from Krsna”

Prabhupada, Bombay, January 15, 1975: That is the description we get from the sastras. Just like you go on sleep every night, so death means to sleep for seven months, unconsciousness, very deep sleep, in the womb of the mother. Then, as soon as another body is grown up by the ingredients supplied by mother’s body or nature, then we get back again consciousness. Just like when we sleep deeply, there is no consciousness. There is consciousness—this is called susupti, unconscious. So again, as soon as the body is complete, then we get back our consciousness. Then we become in sleepy condition. Then again, when we come out of the mother’s abdomen, that is awakening state. There are three states of conditions: jagara, susupti, and svapna—dreaming condition, awakening condition, and unconscious or deep… Actually, we do not die. Na jayate na mriyate va kadacit. There is no question of death. It is simply sleeping or deep sleeping, like that.

So if we keep Krsna consciousness very active always, that means try to understand Krsna from different angles of vision. Here also, as we are studying analytically the functions of agni, but what is this agni? This is also Krsna, Krsna’s energy. Bhumir apo ’nalo vayuh, Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita. Anala. Anala means agni. Bhinna me prakrtir astadha. They are not different from Krsna. Just like sunshine: sunshine is not different from Krsna. Whenever there is sun, wherever there is sun, there is sunshine. Similarly, wherever there is Krsna, the Krsna’s energies are also there. Therefore Visnu. Visnu means all-pervading. So Krsna’s energies are spread everywhere, just like the illumination, dyotanam. It is called dyotanam, illumination. If the fire is there, there must be illumination. And you have seen in the morning—as soon as the sun, before the sun rising actually, before we can see the sun, immediately there is illumination, dyotanam. So the energy, sunshine, is the energy of the sun. it is always there. Sunshine is not differentiated from the sun. Similarly, Krsna’s energy is not differentiated from Krsna. Therefore fire is Krsna’s energy, air is Krsna’s energy, water is Krsna’s energy, land is Krsna’a energy, the sky is Krsna’s energy. This is Krsna’s all-pervasiveness or God’s all- pervasiveness. Parasya brahmanah saktis tathedam akhilam jagat: “Akhilam, the entire universe, is expansion of Krsna’s energy.”