Dovetail your consciousness with Krishna to find true leadership and ultimate happiness.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Lecture — October 11, 1968, Seattle 681011LE-SEATTLE [82:07 Minutes] Prabhupāda: [kīrtana] [prema-dhvani] Thank you very much. [devotees offer obeisances] [10:28] govindam ādi-puruṣam tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. govindam ādi-puruṣam tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. govindam ādi-puruṣam tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. Thank you very much. So all newcomer students, you are welcome. Thank you very much. This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, we are worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the supreme leader.
Human society cannot work without leader. Anywhere you go, any country, any nation, any society, any community, any family, there is a leader. So the Vedas instruct that there is a supreme leader. Nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām eko bahūnāṁ vidadhāti kāmān [Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13].
This [is] very important mantra in Kaṭha Upaniṣad. [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.] You have heard the names of Upaniṣad. They are Vedic literatures.
Originally, the Veda was one, Sāma Veda. Then it was divided into four: Sāma Veda, Atharva Veda, Ṛg Veda, Yajur Veda. Then the Vedas verses were explained in Upaniṣads. There are 108 Upaniṣads.
Then the whole conclusion was made shortened, cream. That is called Vedānta-sūtra. And again, this Vedic knowledge was, I mean to say, compiled in simple way for understanding of less intelligent class of men. That is called Mahābhārata. And in the Mahābhārata there is one chapter which is called Bhagavad-gītā.
Bhagavad-gītā is only a chapter of the great history of India, Mahābhārata. And then Vedānta-sūtra is described in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. So Vedic literature is very old. Nobody can trace out the history.
So far we understand, it is not man-made. It is coming out from transcendental world by disciplic succession. So in that Vedic literature this is..., this verse is there, nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām. A leader, the supreme leader of all living entities—God, or whatever you say, the Absolute Truth, the Absolute Person; generally, we say God—God is also a person like you and me. Just like whenever you find out some leader, he must be a person.