The Supreme Lord eternally waits for each soul to turn its face back toward Him in loving surrender.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Prabhupāda: ye yathā māṃ prapadyante tāṃs tathaiva bhajāmy aham mama vartmānuvartante manuṣyāḥ pārtha sarvaśaḥ [Bg 4.11] [All of them—as they surrender unto Me—I reward accordingly. Everyone follows My path in all respects, O son of Pṛthā.] Lord Kṛṣṇa says that "Every man is following My path, indirectly or directly." The supreme position of the Lord is that He is in the supreme absolute position, and every other living being, they are all subordinate. In the Vedic Upaniṣad it is clearly stated, nityo nityānāṃ cetanaś cetanānām eko bahūnāṃ vidadhāti kāmān [Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13] [The Supreme Lord is eternal and the living beings are eternal. The Supreme Lord is cognizant and the living beings are cognizant. The difference is that the Supreme Lord is supplying all the necessities of life for the many other living entities.] This is the natural law in any society, in any community, in any country, even in the animal society. If you go to the forest there are societies of different animal: elephant society, tiger society, deer society, jackal society, wolf society. Even in the birds, you'll find, the birds of the same feather flock together. This is the natural way.
You'll find that all the pigeons, they flock together, not the crows and the pigeons flock together. The ducks, they flock together. Similarly, this is the natural way, and there... In every group there is a leader. So the Supreme Lord, He is called in the Vedic literature that He is the supreme leader.
Nityo nityānāṃ cetanaś cetanānām. Nitya means eternal, and nityānām, that means many other eternals. We are many other eternals. Eka, that one eternal...
Eko bahūnāṃ vidadhāti kāmān. There are two kinds of eternals. We living entities, we are also eternal, and the Supreme Lord, He is also eternal. So far eternity is concerned, both of us equal on the qualitative nature.
He is eternal, and we are eternal. Sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha [Bs 5.1]. [Kṛṣṇa 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.] He is also all pleasure, and we are also all pleasure, because we are all parts and parcel of the same quality. But He is the leader. Eko bahūnāṃ vidadhāti kāmān: "That one is maintaining all these many's." We, the living entities, we are many's. So our position is always subordinate. That is our natural constitutional position.
Now, the Supreme Lord's position is the leadership, and our position is subordinate. Now, then what is our duty? Our duty is to follow the leader. And actually we are doing so.
We have got... Instead of... We have forgotten that the supreme leader is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but still, for our daily activities we create a leader. We accept some leader and follow his principles. Just like you have elected your leader as President Johnson, the president of your state.