God is always present, just like Sun is always present

Prabhupada, Montreal, June 10, 1968: Simply try to understand what is God and what are His activities. Then you’ll become liberated. So much facility is offered. And the Bhagavad-gita is there. You can understand with all your reason, with all your argument, with all your senses what is God. It is nothing dogmatic. It is all reasonable, philosophical. Unfortunately they have decided that God is dead.

How God can be dead? This is another rascaldom. You are not dead; how God can be dead? So there is no question of God’s being dead. He is always present, just like sun is always present. Only the rascals, they say there is no sun. There is sun. It is out of your sight, that’s all. Similarly, “Because we cannot see God, therefore God is dead,” these are rascaldom. It is not very good conclusion. So one has to understand what is God, divyam.

So Krsna says anyone who understands this philosophy or science of God, philosophy…called the science of sciences. So therefore I use this word “science.” So science of God. Then, after leaving this body, tyaktva deham punar janma na eti [Bg. 4.9] He does not come back again to take this conditional material body. Then, he’s finished? No. He says, mam eti so ’rjuna. “My dear Arjuna, that person comes to Me.” That means you are transferred to the spiritual kingdom or God’s kingdom.

Just like we are present here, face to face. You can go there and see and talk, everything is there simply by understanding. And for that understanding here is Bhagavad-gita. So why don’t you take this advantage? We are trying to place before you Bhagavad-gita. We are not charging anything, fees from you, that “You give me thirty-five dollars or fifty dollars.” No.

We are distributing this knowledge free. Please come and take ad… There is no loss on your part, but there is so much gain. And try to understand it nicely. The result will be tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti kaunteya [Bg. 4.9]. If you simply can understand this preliminary thing, what is God, that’s all. Then you have got duty. As soon as you know your relationship with God, then you have got some duty. Oh, when you’re engaged in such duties then you are already in the liberated stage. You are already in the liberated stage. Simply by understanding God you become liberated. Your certificate is there, you can enter. Tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti kaunteya [Bg. 4.9]. Thank you very much.