Krishna alone is the supreme, independent controller eternally perfect in knowledge and uncontrolled by anyone or anything.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.1.1 — March 21, 1973, Bombay 720321SB-BOMBAY [41:36 Minutes] SB-01.01.01_720321SB-BOMBAY Prabhupāda: The first verse of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, First Canto, First Chapter, janmādy asya yato [SB 1.1.1]: the original source of everything, that is the Absolute Truth, yataḥ, from which or from whom everything is emanating. That is the Absolute Truth. And what is the nature of that Absolute Truth? He is senscient.
He is not a dead stone. He is completely conscious, yena sarvam idaṁ tatam. avināśi tu tad viddhi yena sarvam idaṁ tatam [Bg. 2.17] Idaṁ sarvam tatam: everywhere there is consciousness. You can see the cosmic manifestation: the sun is rotating on the orbit; the moon is rotating on the orbit; thousands and millions of planets and universes are exactly rotating. Unless there is consciousness, how it is possible?
There must be consciousness. Just like in my body, whenever I feel pains and pleasure, there is consciousness. Similarly, the cosmic body, the virāṭ-rūpa, there is consciousness. Therefore in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is said that the Absolute Truth must be conscious.
Janmādy asya yato 'nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ. Abhijñaḥ means conscious. Now this knowledge, abhijñaḥ—jñaḥ means "completely conversant," abhi. Now wherefrom this knowledge came? Just like we have got our experience: we get knowledge from a superior person.
We go to school, we go to college and get knowledge, but wherefrom the Absolute Truth got knowledge? This question may be raised. Generally, because we have experience that without going to the superior person how we can get knowledge, so the same question may be inquired about God, or the Absolute Truth. But Vyāsadeva says that He is abhijñaḥ: He is perfectly conversant, He is perfectly in knowledge, but svarāṭ. Janmādy asya yato 'nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ svarāṭ.
Svarāṭ means "completely independent." There is no need of taking knowledge from others. That is God. Not that I am now in ignorance. The Māyāvādī theory is that "I am now in darkness under the clutches of māyā, and when māyā is finished, then I am God." The answer is if you are actually God, how you are captured by māyā?
Then māyā is greater than you. But it is understood that God is great, nobody can be greater than God; so if māyā captures God, then māyā is greater than God. So this theory is not very intelligent theory, that God has become captured by māyā. No. Māyā can capture this small god, just like we are.