Without Krishna, even the greatest names and forms are lifeless matter; consciousness itself means Krishna consciousness.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.8.38 — April 30, 1973, Los Angeles 730430SB-LOS ANGELES [32:27 Minutes] SB-01.08.38_730430SB-LOS ANGELES Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [leads chanting of verse] [devotees repeat] ke vayaṁ nāma-rūpābhyāṁ yadubhiḥ saha pāṇḍavāḥ bhavato 'darśanaṁ yarhi hṛṣīkāṇām iveśituḥ [SB 1.8.38] [break] ke—who are; vayam—we; nāma-rūpābhyām—without fame and ability; yadubhiḥ—with the Yadus; saha—along with; pāṇḍavāḥ—and the Pāṇḍavas; bhavataḥ—Your; adarśanam—absence; yarhi—as if; hṛṣīkāṇām—of the senses; iva—like; īśituḥ—of the living being.
[03:13] Translation: "As the name and fame of a particular body is finished with the disappearance of the living spirit, similarly, if You do not look upon us, all our fame and activities, along with the Pāṇḍavas and the Yadus, will end at once." Prabhupāda: So this is the case not only with the Pāṇḍavas, but every one of us. When somebody dies, big man, big scientist, big politician, big philosopher, when he's dead, the big name, "Here is Mr. Nixon, here is Mr...., Sir Isaac Newton, or...," this is name. Nāma-rūpābhyām.
Nāma means name, and rūpa means form. So, so long we are living, our name, our fame, our form, our activities are glorious, very good. And as soon as the life is gone, nobody cares; it is a lump of matter, that's all. Now at the... When one is living, a big man, nobody can go before him or touch him—there are so many guards.
But the same man, when he's dead, if he's lying on the floor, if somebody kicks on his face, nobody cares—finished. So we should understand this, that after the disappearance of the body..., soul, this so-called big name, big fame, important body has no value. And what is that soul? That soul is part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa. Therefore our energy of Kṛṣṇa.
So when the energy is withdrawn or Kṛṣṇa is not there, the energy... Kṛṣṇa's energy and Kṛṣṇa is no difference. Śakti-śaktimator abhedaḥ [Brahma-sūtra]. Just like the sun. Sun is the śaktimān, energetic, and the sunshine is the energy.
So, so long the sunshine is there, the sun is there. There is no difficulty. When the sun is not there, the sun's energy's also not there. Similarly Kṛṣṇa, so long Kṛṣṇa is within us, within this body... Kṛṣṇa's energy...
There are... Two things are always. The Māyāvādī philosophers, they do not accept the energy. Simply they accept the energetic impersonal.