True knowledge comes through humble submission to the disciplic succession, not through endless personal speculation and debate.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 13.8–12 — September 30, 1973, Bombay 730930BG-BOMBAY [40:06 Minutes] Bg-13.08–12_730930BG-BOMBAY Prabhupāda: amānitvam adambhitvam ahiṁśā kṣāntir ārjavam ācāryopāsanaṁ śaucaṁ sthairyam ātma-vinigrahaḥ indriyārtheṣu vairāgyam anahaṅkāra eva ca janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhiduḥkha-doṣānudarśanam aśaktir anabhiṣvaṅgaḥ putra-dāra-gṛhādiṣu nityaṁ ca sama-cittatvam iṣṭāniṣṭopapattiṣu mayi cānanya-yogena bhaktir avyabhicāriṇī vivikta-deśa-sevitvam aratir jana-saṁsadi adhyātma-jñāna-nityatvaṁ tattva-jñānārtha-darśanam etaj jñānam iti proktam ajñānaṁ yad ato 'nyathā [Bg. 13.8-12] Śrī Kṛṣṇa has explained. The question was kṣetra, kṣetrajñam, and jñānam and jñeyam, the questions. What is this body... [aside:] I am overlapped. Kṛṣṇa has explained already, ṛṣibhir bahudhā gītaṁ chandobhir vividhaiḥ pṛthak brahma-sūtra-padaiś caiva hetumadbhir viniścitaiḥ [Bg. 13.5] There are many scriptures and many philosophers, ṛṣi, as I explained yesterday, nāsau ṛṣir yasya mataṁ na bhinnā: "He's not a philosopher who hasn't got a different opinion." Because this material world is practically a challenge to the supreme authority. The supreme authority, Kṛṣṇa, He's the bhokta actually.
He's the enjoyer. bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ jñātvā māṁ śāntim ṛcchati [Bg. 5.29] That point is missing. Real enjoyer or proprietor is Kṛṣṇa. Bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram. He's the proprietor, sarva loka, not only of this loka, earthly planet, but there are innumerable planets within this universe, and there are innumerable universes also, not one universe.
Yasya prabhā prabhavato jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi [Bs. 5.40]. Jagad-aṇḍa means universe. It is just like egg shape, anda. You can see this universe, the sky is..., horizon.
So it is just like egg shape. All the planets and the universes, they are egg-shaped. Therefore they are called anda, jagad-aṇḍa, brahmanda. So this jagad-aṇḍa... And Brahmā is called jagad-aṇḍa-natha.
Jagad-aṇḍa-nātha means Brahmā. As in each department, for management there is a manager, similarly, in each brahmāṇḍa there is a manager who is called Brahmā. And each planet, there is also a manager or head. That is the system.
And the supreme head is Kṛṣṇa. Just like we have a manager, a head, on this planet. Now we have divided; formerly this planet was one unit, and there one head, the emperor. Just like Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja was the emperor of the whole world.
Parīkṣit Mahārāja. All kings formerly, whoever became king, emperor, he ruled over the whole planet. In each and every planet there was a ruler. But now, in the days of democracy, there are so many rulers, practically each and every one of us is a ruler.