God's omnipotence enables Him to appear in infinite forms simultaneously while remaining one absolute truth.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Room Conversation with African Intelligentsia — September 22, 1971, Nairobi 710922R1-NAIROBI [112:33 Minutes] Conv_710922R1-NAIROBI Prabhupāda: Somewhere in the world somebody will say it is half-past twelve, somebody will say half-past seven, somebody will say… So many, twenty-four hours. So the sun is the same one, but in one place they will say it is half-past six, in another place it is half-past seven. How it is going on? In our calculation this sun, as you have seen, this half-past five sun, you cannot make it half-past eight.
But it is half-past eight also... Guest: Elsewhere. Prabhupāda: ...at the same time. Guest: Yes. Prabhupāda: So if it is possible for an ordinary material thing like that, why it is not possible God, the Absolute, to become a child and a youth at the same time, simultaneously? Why is it not possible? Your question is how God became child. So my answer is God is child and youth at the same time.
That is God [indistinct]. Guest: And I agree God is in children and in... Prabhupāda: Not in children. God is child Himself and youth Himself at the same time. It is not that… I am not saying that sun is revealed this time. Sun is there in the sky.
Guest (2): That means that God can reveal Himself in many different forms. Prabhupāda: Yes. That is explained in the Vedas: advaitam. Advaita means one. Dvaita means dual.
But He is advaita. He is one. Acyuta, infallible. Advaitam acyutam.
Anādi: He has no beginning. Advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam [Bs. 5.33]. Still He has got millions of forms. Advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam ādyaṁ purāṇa-puruṣaṁ.
Purāṇa means the oldest. Because everything has come from God, then God must be oldest. Just like you have come from your father, your father must be older than you, your grandfather must be older than him. Similarly, if God is the original person, then He must be the oldest. Advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam ādyaṁ purāṇa-puruṣaṁ.